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writerdad
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| Posted 9/27/2001 10:36 AM (GMT -6) |   | For those interested, this http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0110/articles/cole.html is a good article on the concept of a "just war." Thought you might want to take a look...Harold
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Lee Merrill
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| Posted 9/29/2001 3:44 AM (GMT -6) | | That is a good article, Scripture seems to say the war is a stain, in a sense, even for saints:
1CH 28:3 But God said to me, "You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood."
But God himself is described as a warrior:
EX 15:3-4 The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name. Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea.
So the stain is not a sinful stain, but it is a stain nonetheless:
ISA 63:3-4 "I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing. For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redemption has come."
So it seems that Scripture says that we should avoid it if at all possible, we shouldn't delight in it:
PS 120:6-7 Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
PS 68:30 Scatter the nations who delight in war.
But there is still honor for those who serve as good soldiers, John the Baptist did not tell the soldiers who came to him to leave the military, nor was Cornelius the centurion rebuked for his military work.
We are all called to be soldiers, in fact:
2TI 2:3 Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
But our armor and weapons for spiritual battles are not worldly weapons (2 Cor. 10:4-5, Eph. 6:11ff).
Valiant said, "So I did cry out to my King, who I knew could hear me, and afford invisible help, and that was sufficient for me." Then said Great-heart to Mr. Valiant-for-truth, "Thou hast worthily behaved thyself; let me see thy sword." So he showed it him. When he had taken it in his hand, and looked thereon a while, he said, "Ha, it is a right Jerusalem blade."
God bless you,
Lee
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