Originally Posted by
LLama
The holy bible.... Christianity.... what separates them from Jews? The acceptance of Jesus Christ, whose teachings were more important than OT law which is usually twisted to act however "Christians" want to. Furthermore, who's to say the "Vengeance" won't be taken by God and not man?
As Jesus was being crucified, he prayed for his persecuters, claiming it wasn't their fault... for they did not know they were doing.
Jesus taught love, forgiveness, acceptance.. not hatred, vengeance, or vindictiveness.
I can agree, because you are right, but certain things are justifiable, we could argue both extremes ALL day.
Llama, since Jesus taught love, forgiveness, and acceptance, which he did, I want you to follow his example on this forum from this moment forward.
Lets have a scenerio here, I want your opinion.. Assume you are 100% Christian, you live your life devoted to God, much more than the average "Sunday only Christian." You live in the southeast US, so hunting is the norm, you have several guns, even a shotgun.. You have a wife and two kids. You live in the suburbs, nice area, rather nice house. On this particular night your wife gets up because the kids won't sleep, so she sleeps in their room the rest of the night. This same night, a bad guy comes in to steal your stuff, realizes you are all sleeping in the house, and the robbery turns into a rape/murder. He rapes and murders your wife, then turns to your kids, you hear some commotion and you wake up to go check on the kids and help your wife out if she needs some help putting them to sleep. You peek in the door and see your wife bleeding to death on the floor, and the robber getting ready to kill your children.. Do you go get your shotgun and kill the bad guy? Do you kneel down right there and pray to God because this man is not a Christian and deserves to be forgiven?
I would say you would do the first..