Christian Violence V: Theory
(This is a long post.)
PART ONE:
Freedom, for the Christian, does not begin with the world agreeing with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ — it begins with Christians ridding themselves from the ideas of the anti-Christs, ideas of what they think Christianity should be. They think “true” Christianity is pacifistic, all forgiving, “loving,” docile, non-controversial, willing to get along, compromising; all in all, making no serious claim to truly influence the world we live in.
This chapter intends to disabuse the Christian of a pacifist God.
- When Adam was driven from the Garden of Eden, God assigned an angel with a flaming sword to keep anyone from the tree of life. A sword is a tool made to dismember and desanguinate. It is not ceremonial. It is to cause death.
- In the Great Flood, the Lord blotted out every living thing on the earth. Only those on the ark survived. Everything else — men, women, children, animals, birds — died.
- At Babel, when God drove the bloodlines apart when He confused their languages — they began to fear and hate each other and no doubt became violent. That is why they scattered — this was a “confusion;” it was not a peaceable process.
- Abram was called of God to be a father of many bloodlines/nations. He had his own well trained militia of 318 men. This was not ceremonial — he waged war. He was prepared to wage war before he needed to wage war. And when the moment came, he went forth to defend his bloodline. And this mean killing men not of his bloodline. It was after he defeated his enemies that Melchizedek appeared and blessed him and blessed “God most high who has delivered hour enemies into your hand.”
- Moses stepped into his calling when he murdered an Egyptian — that was the moment of no return for him. Up until that moment, Moses could have chosen to remain a prince of Egypt. That was the moment he irrevocable changed his life and was caste out of his comfort and pleasure.
- God sent his angel to kill all the first born in the land of Egypt, from men to animals, old to young. It was only the blood of a lamb that protected the firstborn of Israel.
- When the sons of Israel rebelled, God intended to wipe them out and restart a nation anew with just Moses — but Moses pleaded for mercy and God relented.
- When the sons of Israel marched march on Jericho, they killed every man, woman, child, and even the animals. They were not to associate with those foreign people and were not even to mention the name of their gods.
There is a time for peace.
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and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 2 He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up. 3 So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.
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ourselves, not just the Good, but the Crazy.
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