Non-violence

[ratchet30]

If I was attacked repeatedly would I not have a riht to attack back? Or if my wife was being attacked/raped, etc. I would like to know to what extent I'm to be non-violent.

 

[childofdust]

If I was attacked repeatedly would I not have a riht [sic] to attack back?

Well, I guess that depends on what your rights are. Ask a lawyer.

Or if my wife was being attacked/raped, etc.

See above.

I would like to know to what extent I'm to be non-violent.

That depends on what sense you mean and according to who. If you ask Gandhi, I'm sure you'll come away with a different answer than you would President Obama. If you're wondering where Yeshua settles on the issue, the one who could have called down angels to protect him, who could have thrown down the Roman Empire and delivered his subjugated people from oppression, I don't think you have to look any further than this:

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[Michael Snow]

If I was attacked repeatedly would I not have a riht to attack back? Or if my wife was being attacked/raped, etc. I would like to know to what extent I'm to be non-violent.

In classical Christian thought, both pacifists and non-pacifists [just war types] were agreed; both rejected self-defense.

The question of defending one's wife is not a pacifist example because pacifism related to wars and the rejection of bearing the sword as a soldier.

I expect that in the case of one's famliy, a husband would intervene to the extent of his abilities whether it was rebuking the assailant in the name of the Lord or attempting to restrain him.

[Too many American Christians have watched too much garbage on TV and at the movies, which are a far cry from normal reality.]