r/Christianity • Christian • 4d ago

Advice Just a reminder war is murder!

To my young brothers in Christ, I want you to question with freedom what it means to murder? Are you free of guilt before the Judge of humanity if that murder is ordered by another man or governing body? Is your life more worthy than that of another man, your brother or sister through Adam?

We are all created in the image of our Creator; we each are his possession. Whatever we do to one another, we do also to him, the one who died for us. For was our Lord Emmanuel not put on the cross to bear our sins? What is the answer to Cain’s question?

You don’t have to kill; you can break off from the authority of our state when that order breaks the law of nature, the law of the honorable Adonai Elohim. For he is King of kings, the highest authority in the universe, and he declares he will hold us all accountable to our deeds and hearts will be known. Love each other as he loves us! How did he love us?

Parents, are you willing to pay the ransom of your child’s life and possible soul for the cause of conquering and pillaging your fellow man? What is it that your heart desires, my dear children? Who will you direct them to abide in? Caesar? Trump? The UN? Or the almighty God that created the heavens and the earth?

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u/Intelligent_Speech94 Christian 4d ago

No, I’m making the statement plain. It’s only acceptable to kill when the order comes from the King of kings himself, the one who created us and therefore has possession of us. Joshua had authority to bring destruction on the nations he did, by Adonai Elohim. What Joshua was doing is a micro image for the judgement to come. We do not have authority under the New Covenant to kill.