Francis Drake
Returning adventurer.
- Apr 14, 2013
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I didn't miss it at all, I just dismissed it as irrelevant.Did you miss my analogy about me praying to God for an angel to protect me and God telling that angel to use whatever force necessary to protect me?
I live in the UK where the police are generally unarmed. Nevertheless the UK police are still a hit squad, and despite your head in the sand thinking, (or maybe I should call it head in the clouds thinking,) your armed US police are even more so!It is the same situation with the police except the players are different. Oh, and no. I do not know what country you live in, but here in the US, the police are not a hit squad. They don't shoot first and ask questions later. If you want to continue to argue otherwise, then have fun. But this is pretty obvious that they are not a hit squad. Maybe in some other countries they are; But not here.
If police forces are not a potential hit squad ie. carrying the sword, then they cannot be a part of God's ordained government of the nations.
Romans13v4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain:
That's an amazing delusion with absolutely no scriptural basis!First, nobody was harmed physically. Second, nobody's lives were in any real danger.
Jesus took a whip to them and overturned their money tables. He was obviously outnumbered many times over so, do you seriously imagine they all stood back and freely let him do that. Jesus must have been able to overcome their resistance by shear physical strength and the use of his whip.
There you go again with another imaginary scenario. Better to stick to the written script.If Jesus shot flaming arrows into the crowd, they would more than likely would have arrested him for endangering the lives of others.
Why he wasn't arrested isn't mentioned despite the obvious seriousness of his offense.
Jesus using the whip was in John2, that's about 3 years before his trial, so hardly likely to be relevant. His later venture into the temple doesn't seem to have included the whip.In fact, if anyone was harmed, they would have used that against him at his trial. But that didn't happen now did it.
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