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<blockquote data-quote="fieldsofwind" data-source="post: 507092" data-attributes="member: 4632"><p>A. </p><p></p><p>However, he was told not to use it at the time, but not "don't ever use it." Otherwise, why would Christ have let him have it with him at all. (one can imagine that if having a sword was completely wrong, then Christ would have informed His disciples that they were not to have them) </p><p></p><p>Furthermore: Luke 22:35-38 </p><p></p><p>Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered. He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment." The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords." "That is enough," he replied.</p><p></p><p>And the cool thing is that they can have the swords for defense, and yet still love their enemies, and pray for those who persecute them. We are always to be compassionate, but if compassion means we are to never use force against an aggressor, then how compasionate are we being towards the victim? In other words, by that definition we cannot be compassionate to both. So, some here would assert that we must choose the aggressor to be "compassionate" towards. I don't believe this at all. One can be compassionate towards both, and yet still use all of the force necessary to stop evil.</p><p></p><p>take care</p><p></p><p>FOW</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fieldsofwind, post: 507092, member: 4632"] A. However, he was told not to use it at the time, but not "don't ever use it." Otherwise, why would Christ have let him have it with him at all. (one can imagine that if having a sword was completely wrong, then Christ would have informed His disciples that they were not to have them) Furthermore: Luke 22:35-38 Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered. He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment." The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords." "That is enough," he replied. And the cool thing is that they can have the swords for defense, and yet still love their enemies, and pray for those who persecute them. We are always to be compassionate, but if compassion means we are to never use force against an aggressor, then how compasionate are we being towards the victim? In other words, by that definition we cannot be compassionate to both. So, some here would assert that we must choose the aggressor to be "compassionate" towards. I don't believe this at all. One can be compassionate towards both, and yet still use all of the force necessary to stop evil. take care FOW [/QUOTE]
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