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How can acting for God condemn one to Hell.

It can if you violate God's will or his word while thinking you are fighting for him.

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What you need to do is pray and spread the gospel, the end is coming and this world is passing, we are in tribulations right now, and while none may claim to know the exact time, I can tell you that the end is nigh, all you must do is withstand persecution with meekness and love for your oppressors, like Jesus did.

He did not kill his enemies, he sought to save them, and gave his life to do so, he healed the wounds of those who cursed him, provided for the needs of those who struck him, and called his disciples to follow his example and walk with him in this.

Even if the end is not nigh, your life on Earth is as insignificant as a mote of dust compared to the timelessness of heaven, and any suffering you experience here shall be rewarded in the eternal hereafter.

Reject the desires of the world of the devil, anything that can be accomplished by bloodshed or by hatred or by self-preservation is accomplished by playing with the devil's tools. He who makes a toy of evil, is made a slave by it.

Reward hatred with love for your enemies, if they take from you, give them more than they ask, if they strike you, open yourself up to them, do good for those who persecute you, and you lump burning coals upon their heads.

Welcome the stranger and the lost into your homes, he who comes from far away lands, is owed you hospitality and submission, for when you welcome them into your house and heart, you welcome in Christ also, when you feed the foreigner or stranger, you have given Jesus a meal, when you shelter them, you have given Christ himself a home, when you submit to them, you submit to the Son of God and King of Kings.

Know Jesus Christ through knowing the poor and strange.

Reject worldly comforts, reject riches, for only a poor man may enter the kingdom of Heaven, Reject worldly freedom and obey your masters in life, for the wages of your bondage on Earth is rewarded in Heaven.

Give unto your ruler what he demands of your, bow your heads in submission, but give to God (Jesus) what he asks of you as well, submit to his word also.

Taking action violates one, some, or all of Christ's teachings, pretty much all of these are paraphrased from the lord himself, his words to his disciples, and the examples he gave of how to live for him.

This is what it means to damn yourself by going against Christ thinking you are make him smile, when in reality that is the devil's grin. He is the father of lies, a great deceiver, he assumes every form to snatch you up, including one that seems holy and angelic.

Here you may well fall into his temptation, and violate the commands of Christ while seeking to serve him, because of the manipulations of the lord of darkness.

Do you trust the Bible? Do you hold the words of Christ above all others? then you must follow the teachings of Christ, especially when the temptation is strongest to act selfishly.

Pray, preach, withstand the slings and arrows, obey, and when your time has come to enter the pearly gates, you will be welcomed as one of the few who understood what Christian spirit stands for.

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So your solution is “never do anything, ever, and let the jews win” then.

Yes, this world is the devil's, leave it to the devil, who is the father of the Jews, that they have given themselves to his house by rejecting their messiah. As Jesus said "render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's, and unto God what is God's".

I have given you quote after quote, all from Jesus, he ay have told you to buy a sword, but did he ever tell you to strike someone with it? Perhaps he was being metaphorical, as he had been when he said "I have come to bring not peace, but a sword" he then clarified "I have come to divide father against son, daughter against mother, brother against brother, and house against itself". His "sword" was not a physical one, but a metaphor for how divisive his message was, what he was cutting with was not steel, but truth, and what he was cutting was not a physical bond, but an immaterial one. Later on, he is more clear as to what he was referring to: "if you do not hate your brethren, if you do not hate your father and mother, brother and sister, if you do not hate yourself also, then you cannot be my disciple". You must love Christ above all to be a Christian, and you must hate all earthly things, including hating your family and yourself, indeed, his followers left their families for him, and took on lives of outcasts living in poverty, praying, worshipping, and preaching. You must turn the cheek yet to be struck to your enemy who had struck you, this asks him to see you as an equal before he strikes you again, You must give up your sandals and robes if your sandals are being robbed from you, this shows your detachment from the world, and the generous spirit that provides everlasting bounty. You must welcome the stranger and provide for his every need above your own, for by doing so you welcome Christ. You must obey the slave master and serve him well, Jesus implores you to do so, for your wages lie in the hereafter, a great bounty for an obedient servant. You resist tyranny by being unbroken in spirit by it, some active revolt is not Christian rebellion, but the rebellion of the worldly man, and he has given himself over to the devil. Christ is very clear on that, to resist with your heart or hand or tongue is to violate his commands of his disciples and to forsake his example of how to rebel against persecution (allowing yourself to be crucified by your oppressors). God's law comes before all, and Jesus is the most direct word of God, his teachings come before anything else you may find in the Bible.

"Why did he crash the moneychangers at the steps of the temple and drive them out with a whip? that's violent", he was not resisting the Romans, here, was he? he was not killing anyone, and as his whip was not fashioned of hide, it may not even have harmed them significantly, the worst he did was overturn some tables. Here he was admonishing his own people remembered the law of his people, the laws given to them by God, as was his duty as Rabbi. His actions are explicitly stated by him later on, He acted this way because they violated the laws of the Jews as orally given among the Jews by the Pharisees, and he had come to fulfill the law, not to change it. He said "you shall not make of my fathers house, a house of merchandise", according to the Talmud, business must be conducted away from the tabernacle, and one must not lend money to a fellow Jew, only to a gentile may money be changed. It seems this law predated the Talmud and was indeed a part of the oral law that Jesus sought to fulfill. You may not conduct business of this nature with fellow Jews, and you may not conduct business in the presence of the house of God. Look at Paul, a tax collector, the ultimate money changer, was he demonized in the Bible? no, he was a Jew who was made by the romans to collect information on his people while acting in the role of tax collector, Hearing od Christ and his followers, he reported this to the Romans, who persecuted them, and were not resisted by the Christians. Then he was struck blind on the road to Damascus, by the glorious light of God asking him "why do you persecute my people so?, and inspired to become a messenger of Christ, he was the founder of the Pauline church of Christ, which went on to be directly influential in the later universal church of Christ. That alone is enough to say that money-changing is not a deal-breaker, he was not struck dead, but blinded, and only temporarily, as his sight recovered thereafter, and he went on to be one of the most holy men in the Christian faith among Christ's followers.