Not entirely sure this post is supposed to go in this particular forum, forgive me if it needs to be moved, this is the best place I could find to post it. I'm curios to know what other Christians would do if this situation arose. We all (hopefully) know and agree that war is needed at times. This is just to satisfy my curiosity and start a discussion, I know this will never happen (thank God), but let's just imagine it did, what would you? What side and it's motives do you think God is more pleased with? What side would you join, if you would join at all. Just a side note, if any gamers read this this may sound familiar to you, I first heard about this, situation, I guess, from a video game called "Brink," Google is your friend if you want to know more.
Here's the situation: Humanity built a city that can float out at sea. The city was made to house maximum 5,000 people. The ice glaciers near Greenland and most of the artic north has melted due to increasing temperatures and has caused world-wide flooding (not to the scale of Noah's Flood, but extremely destructive world-wide) and has thrown the world in mass chaos. Refugees from all over the world have traveled to this floating city, and now it's population is 50,000. The city leaves the west coast of North America and floats out to sea where the rest of the world won't find it. Resources quickly start running dangerously low, everything has to be rationed.
Eventually thanks to fallen human nature, 2 factions arise. The city's security, who wants to save the city and keep all inhabitants of the city in it because they think there's nothing left worth going back to. Then there's city's resistance, who want to leave the city, go back to the rest of the world, because they think it will be better than on the floating city. Peace talks and peaceful protests have been attempted to no avail, and thus, all-out-war breaks loose for control of resources and the city itself. The security sees the resistance as terrorists and the resistance see the security as oppressors.
If you were in that situation what would you do? Would you fight for the security, who gets more rations than everyone else, and try to save what you think is left of humanity? Or would you fight for the resistance, who gets less rations, and wants to basically risk it all by leaving the city and going back out into the world? Or would you not fight at all? Why would you choose what you chose? What do you think God would want Christians to do in this situation? You have no idea what's left out in the rest of the world, it could literally be nothing but destruction, or there could be survivors who may have started to get things back to normal.
Again I'm just asking this because I'm curios to know what other Christians would do. This is just food for thought. I will post my answer after the first few answers, because honestly I don't really know what I would do. A part of me says go back out because the world would most-likely be salvageable, but other part of me says we should obey the government in charge (the security) and maybe God wouldn't want us to go back out. Just throwing this out there.
Thanks.
Here's the situation: Humanity built a city that can float out at sea. The city was made to house maximum 5,000 people. The ice glaciers near Greenland and most of the artic north has melted due to increasing temperatures and has caused world-wide flooding (not to the scale of Noah's Flood, but extremely destructive world-wide) and has thrown the world in mass chaos. Refugees from all over the world have traveled to this floating city, and now it's population is 50,000. The city leaves the west coast of North America and floats out to sea where the rest of the world won't find it. Resources quickly start running dangerously low, everything has to be rationed.
Eventually thanks to fallen human nature, 2 factions arise. The city's security, who wants to save the city and keep all inhabitants of the city in it because they think there's nothing left worth going back to. Then there's city's resistance, who want to leave the city, go back to the rest of the world, because they think it will be better than on the floating city. Peace talks and peaceful protests have been attempted to no avail, and thus, all-out-war breaks loose for control of resources and the city itself. The security sees the resistance as terrorists and the resistance see the security as oppressors.
If you were in that situation what would you do? Would you fight for the security, who gets more rations than everyone else, and try to save what you think is left of humanity? Or would you fight for the resistance, who gets less rations, and wants to basically risk it all by leaving the city and going back out into the world? Or would you not fight at all? Why would you choose what you chose? What do you think God would want Christians to do in this situation? You have no idea what's left out in the rest of the world, it could literally be nothing but destruction, or there could be survivors who may have started to get things back to normal.
Again I'm just asking this because I'm curios to know what other Christians would do. This is just food for thought. I will post my answer after the first few answers, because honestly I don't really know what I would do. A part of me says go back out because the world would most-likely be salvageable, but other part of me says we should obey the government in charge (the security) and maybe God wouldn't want us to go back out. Just throwing this out there.
Thanks.
