Wars cannot be avoided

The peace of Christ is a peace that is unaffected by what goes on in the world.

LayHong_Loves_Christ said:

If we look at Christian history, we have crusade etc. that involved wars.
From spiritual point of view, God is in war with Satan, and men are pulled into the war between them.
In this case, Christianity cannot be a religion of Peace and War-free.
Christianity is basically a religion of war, do you agree?

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Only if the war is spiritual.

War is part of Christianity but it is not a religion of war. The same spirit which animated Islam does not pervade throughout Christianity. I’m fairly convinced of this, though we cannot ignore the war element in the history of Christianity. Pacifism is an alien idea to Christian society and given the need for protection there could never be a pacifist Christian society when we came to be in charge.

Christians did fight wars for religious reasons and I’m not keen to say their efforts were entirely an abomination to God since many of those wars had good consequences. That's a modern presumption which can be seriously questioned given the bloodshed of secular wars. Eastern Roman efforts to repel Islam for centuries were in part a religious struggle between Islam and Eastern Christianity as much as it was a struggle between Emperor and Sultan or Greek and Arab. The Reconquista was a religious war to take back lands which should have never been so easily won by Muslims in the first place. Are we going to repudiate those efforts? I don't think so.

Yet warriors are not the highest example we as Christians point to. The saints are the greatest example, Jesus is the ultimate example and he didn’t lead armies. This doesn’t mean the soldier doesn’t have a place, only that his place, like the married man or woman’s place, is lesser than the dedicated celibate. If not for the warriors, Christians would have been overrun centuries ago, be it by Pagans or Muslims or something worse. We would have been under the bootheel of any and all aggressors.

LayHong_Loves_Christ said:

If we look at Christian history, we have crusade etc. that involved wars.
From spiritual point of view, God is in war with Satan, and men are pulled into the war between them.
In this case, Christianity cannot be a religion of Peace and War-free.
Christianity is basically a religion of war, do you agree?

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No .... Christianity (Christians) are followers of Christ.

Mankind has bad hearts .... across the entire spectrum.

John 16:2

.... (Jesus speaking) In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Has happened in the past .... will happen again.

Christianity is basically a religion of war, do you agree? No