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They'd probably try to mug me knowing there's a good chance it wouldn't fire.Although if you had a Kimber in plain view then you would be stopped and everybody would want to hold it and love on it. They are nice
Self defense is not murder.Naw, man.. are you relying on a bullet to save you now?.. I hope you don't need to pull it on someone, you just don't know how that will go. It's the way of evil. The only way you can win that way, is to be the greater murderer than them.
I think it is wrong to not be able to defend your wife and kids. I mean, I don't have any myself to speak of, but I would defend yours if they were attacked.Naw, man.. are you relying on a bullet to save you now?.. I hope you don't need to pull it on someone, you just don't know how that will go. It's the way of evil. The only way you can win that way, is to be the greater murderer than them.
Killing is killing. It is not God's way.Self defense is not murder.
I believe there are times when lethal self-defense is necessary; but related to to OP it would have been a ridiculous (and illegal) over reaction to the events described to actually shoot the guy.
If someone is being murderous, then the sixth commandment requires that we do everything in our power to preserve the lives of the innocent. If a victim or bystander has a gun and using it is the only means of ensuring preservation, at least aim for the kneecaps.Naw, man.. are you relying on a bullet to save you now?.. I hope you don't need to pull it on someone, you just don't know how that will go. It's the way of evil. The only way you can win that way, is to be the greater murderer than them.
What, to humble him in order to tell him who Jesus is? It isn't God's way, or do you really not know that?If someone is being murderous, then the sixth commandment requires that we do everything in our power to preserve the lives of the innocent. If a victim or bystander has a gun and using it is the only means of ensuring preservation, at least aim for the kneecaps.
But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.Scriptural support please.
But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.
Matthew 26:52
"I tell you not to resist an evil person."
Matthew 5:39
...Killing is killing. It is not God's way.
You don't understand why, do you? "Have you come to arrest me as some criminal?" (He spoke these things so that the scriptures would be fulfilled, which say "I was counted with the lawless ones")."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." Luke 22:36
Hmmm, what you're hoping to achieve with this, .. "you will not build a house for my name, for you have shed much blood".Hmmmm...maybe context is important.
Speaking of......
1 Samuel 17:36-37
36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”
Context, my friend. Do you think Jesus telling Peter not to stand in the way of Calvary is a mandate to stand idly by while (for example) someone breaks into your house and kills your family? “Sorry, dear, I know he’s going to rape and murder you, but Jesus told me to let him. Oh, and I think I’m supposed to bring him our daughter too.”You don't understand why, do you? "Have you come to arrest me as some criminal?" (He spoke these things so that the scriptures would be fulfilled, which say "I was counted with the lawless ones").
"Two is enough!" .. "put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will fall by the sword".
I am sorry you are choosing that path. If only you would follow the words that give life!
And you think God was referring to the incident where He empowered David to kill Goliath? You may want to read the rest of David’s story.Hmmm, what you're hoping to achieve with this, .. "you will not build a house for my name, for you have shed much blood".
Who said I would stand by idly? (you want to check whose voice it is that's whispering such things to you - that is what will get you killed, look at these guys: There's got to be a job for these guys in the White House...).Context, my friend. Do you think Jesus telling Peter not to stand in the way of Calvary is a mandate to stand idly by while (for example) someone breaks into your house and kills your family? “Sorry, dear, I know he’s going to rape and murder you, but Jesus told me to let him. Oh, and I think I’m supposed to bring him our daughter too.”
Think.
It doesn't really have much bearing upon the present matters (because it is Jesus that is our High Priest - see Hebrews 7:12).And you think God was referring to the incident where He empowered David to kill Goliath? You may want to read the rest of David’s story.
Like I said...context.
I have no problem with the word of God in the context in which is was delivered. Eisegesis on the other hand...pass.Jesus said "do not resist an evildoer". You have an irreconcilable problem in that, with what you are doing.
Center of mass. Look where you intend to hit.I wonder now, will you look a man in the eye and pull the trigger?
Then the person in question should have not put me in a position where I had to take such actions to defend my own life or the life of someone else.I tell you, you'd have been better off not pulling the gun in the first place. But then again, if you do shoot, you have taken someone that someone loves and you have grieved The Holy Spirit in them, because God is love (1 John 4:16). You have taken away their whole world, and they can never get that back. The bitterness eats them up .. and they blame God because it was a Christian who did it.
Would-be victim survives...good outcome.So, there's really no good outcome for you if you're going to go about things in that way.
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