A friend sent me this link. Thought it was interesting enough to post here:
mirrorofjustice.com/mirrorof … _an_1.html
JT
Actually quite fascinating. It should get
better play then it has. An Evangelical who ignores the
idea of universal church and isolates in terms of country,
religion, race or any other factor is not much of a christian.
If you are a christian and support the war, you have failed
both god and your christian beliefs.
Kropotkinj
The only time Christianity was ever bad instead of good, was when it failed God…
Hi JT,
this seems to be typical John Stott, ‘the Christian community’s primary mission must be “to hunger for righteousness, to pursue peace, to forbear revenge, to love enemies, in other words, to be marked by the cross.”’
Shalom
hi Bob,
I just thought it comforting to hear other voices asking for spirit and not the twisting that unleashes all the evil done in the name of God…
JT
Babalon has fallen, babalon has fallen again.
Yet, who said this war was wrong???
When someone is doing wrong, and puts up a wall to protect the wrong they are doing,… you have to be able to knock it down. God has sanctioned many wars with unreasonable dictators.
What is Sadamn being tried for right now? Crimes against humanity. How do you justify allowing these? What about the billions in “food for oil” that
Sadamn stole? Could he have been funding and creating a safe haven for AL quida? He did have the polocy of paying off the families of suicide bombers. Doesn’t that show you the itegrety of a crook like him, and what he’d do with money?
Phil,
I din’t see anything suggesting a defense of Saddam, nor do I think it was implied. What was clear is the the ‘peaceful and loving’ message Christ brought was being trampled undefoot in a rush to rationalize our violence. Saddam’s violence was evil. This justifies our violence?
JT
American Corporation Capitalism and Short term profit maximisation strategies is an uncomfortably poor fit with its pretended ideological underpinnings in a movement started by a few Jewish peasants in an insignificant corner of the Roman empire, whose primary wish was to tell Judaean synagogues about the coming End and the possibility of avoiding it.
That, I’m afraid, will always be the bottom line on this one!
Hello Bob;
— this seems to be typical John Stott, 'the Christian community’s primary mission must be "to hunger for righteousness
O- But expect none in this life.
— to pursue peace
O- Though you will expect none in this life.
— to forbear revenge
O- For revenge is God’s.
— to love enemies
O- That you may heap burning coals upon their heads.
— in other words, to be marked by the cross."’
O- In other words to expect the arrival of His kingdom which is not of this Earth.