If someone were to try to harm my wife I would stand in their way in order to prevent them. I would not raise a hand nor fire a gun. I would merely let them know their actions are not acceptable. If they did something inappropriate, was there not a God who was watching and allowed it to happen. Isnt there a saying something like Let go and let God? Let God What? Let God be in control.
I'm sorry, I trust God, but what's to say God's will isn't for me to help my wife. You believe what you want, but if you ever stand by and let somebody kill your wife, you will spend your life in jail.
I have been in circumstances to test the above principle. When I try to protect myself, God stands back and says go for it. When I stand back and let God be my protector, He says I will.
I don't think you've ever been physically beatne up. There comes a point when you've turned both cheeks and it's time to defend yourself.
Men use the example of someone attacking their wife or children to justify murdering someone else. These circumstances usually never happen but they do reveal the intentions of the heart. Right now no one is attacking your wife and children. Right now, as we speak Americans are killing your neighbors wifes and children in a foreign land, seven thousand miles away.
This example was intended to be used to relate the situation on a smaller scale, but it appears you don't understand either example. Prevent death by making death. Yeah, it doesn't sound pretty, but it is neccessary.
However, to assume someone's motives like you did is absolutely wretched. I was the one that made the example to begin with. Do I want to kill? Do you honestly think I want to kill? That's pretty self-righteous of you! It's time to dive into some serious prayer, brother, because you are developing a spiritual superiority complex if you really think that your motives are so much more pure than ours.
You are correct, by protecting ourselves in killing or injuring others we demonstrate that we have not laid down our lives as Jesus did. Thereby proving we do not love anyone but ourselves.
SO are you suggesting that the soldiers who fought in WWII were only fighting for selfish reasons? Because that is completely ridiculous. What selfish person would go to war with such a liklihood of losing their lives in order to protect a nation.
I think it'd be more selfish to sit at home and criticize those over seas fighting the war than to actually be involved in it.
Another example of this inability to let Gods will be done is in how men react to the fires that are burning in the land. Father allows a lightning strike to start a forest fire. All men pray stop the fire, stop the fire, please dont let my possessions be burnt up.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Wildfires do more than destroy homes and possesions... they also destroy hundreeds upon thousands of years of nature including innocent animals, beautiful trees and yes put's lives in danger.
So let's disect what you've stated so far...
Soldiers are evil for killing in war.
Husbands who kill or harm to protect their wives actually have evil intent.
Firefighters who fight fires have contempt for God's will.
Sorry, brother, I see no logic whatsoever to your claims.