因为在神没有一件事是不可能的

I ran into another problem with someone tonight. They were challenging me on being a pacifist. I'm used to this. It happens all the time because it's such an extreme stance. Of course I gave them the standard verse from Matt 5:38-48. And, as predicted, they shot back with this super standard metaphorical scenario. "What if someone was trying to kill your wife or kids?" Which always bugged me, because it would kill me to see someone that close to me get hurt, but it would kill me just as much to hurt anyone, even if they were trying to kill family, as well. Then something came to me and I loved it.


If someone were trying to murder my wife I would pray. I wouldn't do anything but pray. If that's when she dies, that's when she dies. I would rather be responsible for sending my wife to heaven by practicing what Jesus taught than be responsible for sending someone else to hell by defending my wife or kids. You may be thinking, "just wait until you have a wife, then try to say that" and I completely believe that this is a belief that will remain unshaken until the day I die.

But this led to something else. After I said that they got all political on me and asked me, thinking they could trap me, if America should have followed that course of action when terrorists attacked the twin towers. You know what? I think we should have. I think it would have been so much more amazing if America had turned the other cheek. Imagine how blown away the rest of the world would have been if we had done that. It would have been amazing. Wrong thing to say though, the person was from NY... whoops!

No matter where you look, correct me if I'm wrong, you can't find scriptures that apply to us now that would in any way condone going to war. Try to find somewhere that says if someone attacks you fight back and kill 'em. Don't grab Old Testament scriptures that don't apply. And don't talk about self defense being the "spirit of the law" because I don't think there's scripture to back that either. Find some evidence that says violence is fine by God, I dare you.