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When is it acceptable to kill the innocent to get to the wicked? If my neighbour beats and kills some of his family and I decide to take action and get my guns and some of my family and friends and invade the house and in the process I kill some of his family and eventually I kill or capture him, was that acceptable loss and who made me the judge of such things? Lets add an additional scenario, let's say on top of killing and oppressing some of his family and enslaving some of the rest, he also threatens some of my family and may get the opportunity to carry out his threats am I now justified to go in an kill his family in the pursuit of getting to him? Is there no other way? While governments may think that it is okay, Christians cannot and should look to prayer for the protection of their country and their family James 5:16. See also acts 12:1-17

You know D its easier to answer the question when you reply to the person who sent it. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/yep.gif" alt="" /> But be that as it may you have some esplainin' to do Lucy <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> First of all define innocent for me please? When God commanded Joshua to destroy all of Jericho except for Rahab's brood did not children, women, aged and other non-combatant people die? Was that right?

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Lets add an additional scenario, let's say on top of killing and oppressing some of his family and enslaving some of the rest, he also threatens some of my family and may get the opportunity to carry out his threats am I now justified to go in an kill his family in the pursuit of getting to him? Is there no other way?

So D your telling me that its more scriptural to allow evil to happen and for you to just pray about it and hope it goes away. How do you reconcile that with 1 Tim. 5:8? Shouldn't safety also be something you provide?

Peter

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo