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I guess it depends on how you define "saint" and what that means to you.I found that being done in "Our Daily Bread" book!
Imagine a Nazi soldier involving himself in a holocaust claiming that title!
I served 3 Combat Tours during 8 years of service and the last half of the first tour in Vietnam the LORD called me and had I been smart enough not to run from God for 23+ years, I would have, likely, made my thirty year goal as a Christian American Soldier.I found that being done in "Our Daily Bread" book!
Imagine a Nazi soldier involving himself in a holocaust claiming that title!
In the New Testament, "saints" seems to just be synonomous with "Christian." Seems to me that one can be a Christian and soldier. There's nothing that prohibts this identification necessarily.
There's the Roman soldier who Jesus helped (Lk 7). Then there's Cornelius (Ac 10). Neither of them were told to stop working for the Roman state; nor is there any indication that they did.
Israel always had a standing army as well with no indication that they should have thrown away their arms.
In the New Testament, "saints" seems to just be synonomous with "Christian." Seems to me that one can be a Christian and soldier. There's nothing that prohibts this identification necessarily.
There's the Roman soldier who Jesus helped (Lk 7). Then there's Cornelius (Ac 10). Neither of them were told to stop working for the Roman state; nor is there any indication that they did.
thank you for using the Bible and giving a thoughtful answer that a serious question like this deserves
also, we can look to what St. John the Baptist, a prophet of the living God, told the Roman Soldiers, no where does he say that they should stop being soldiers
Luke 3:12
Then some soldiers asked him, "And what should we do?" He replied, "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely--be content with your pay."
That appears to be an assumption.
But they were not recognized as saints!
That is the OT standard and life.
Which part? The part about the saints? No, I got that from reading the New Testament.
The NT usually refers to all believers as saints. I'm not going to just give a list of verses but here is one example:
Ac 9:32 Now as Peter was traveling around from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda."Saints" in the NT is just one way of the Church refering to themselves. They weren't called "Christians" until after some time:
Acts 11:26 ..... Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
No, we have standing armies today too.
That was the early Church period.
Many were living together and sharing in common.
Are the modern Christians following any of the life of sacrifice now?
They were the army of worshippers unlike offensive system of a secular governments!
Right, so the essential answer to the thread is, "yes." One can be a soldier and saint using the definition the earliest church was using.
Sure, some were in the very beginning.
Do you think we should all live together in a commune?
No, most of them don't live together in communes.
Are most Catholics monks?
If sin discounted someone from being a saint, there would be exactly zero (0) saints.
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