What does God think about war?
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According to the bible, God has participated in wars.  So he must be a fan.
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They justify believing in war because they do not see their religion has its foundations in the early Church Fathers, who were ultimately interested in creating a religion compatible with the needs and demands of the Roman Empire. It is commonly assumed the Christian faith is based on the Scriptures, but taken seriously, there never has been and never could be a "Christian nation" - meaning one which obeyed Christ - since He commanded His disciples to lay down the sword, give up all their possessions (which necessitated them living in communities like you see in Acts, chapters 2 and 4), and radically turn away from all the world has to offer them, and even the demands of their selfish nature. \nH.G. Wells got this one right when he wrote of the amazing life the Son of God called men to, which so many, even his own followers within a few generations, shrank back from. (See the quote from Wells "A History of the World" at http://www.bartleby.com/86/37.html)\nThe so-called just war theory, if you bother to read Augustine who first formulated it in the early 400's, doesn't forbid Christian participation in any war, however unjust, because every Christian soldier is commanded to obey even his pagan ruler or commander. (For some of Augustine's teaching on this, see Against Faustaus, the Manichaean, Book XXII, Paragraphs 75-76. See the article at http://www.theblackboxspeaks.org/augustine-wars.html about Augustine's legacy in this regard, which affects the historically harsh treatment given conscientious objectors, too.) \nThe just war theory only soothes and appeases the conscience of Christians blatantly contradicting the example and commands of the King they claim, but do not obey. Christian participation in the affairs of this world may well be history's greatest tragedy, and certainly its greatest blasphemy.
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I'd really like to answer your question but I can't quite read the postmark on the last letter Einsteing sent me .......\n\nWhat are you going on about? If that was the case, everyone who ever discovered anything, reasoned anything out, invented anything, or learned anything, would be sent to hell, and if that were true, it would be a pretty interesting place to be! But it seems obvious that God wouldn't give man the capacity to learn, to invent, to understand, and send him to hell for using that God-given capacity. And how, pray tell, can you prevent knowledge from being used for evil purposes? Weapons were originally used to gather food, a peaceful purpose, but when disputes arose, they were used for war. Books were invented as a means of preserving and sharing knowledge. But that invention has been perverted to include printing porn. Does that mean ALL books should be destroyed, along with the processes of making them? \nI think you've just got nothing better to do and are making up things to generate discussions. At least, I hope that's the case, because if you really believe what you said, I feel sorry for your. And your God, because he must be a vindictive and vengeful God to behave in that manner.
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I should imagine that God hates all religions.  Most wars have been fought in the name of one religion or another - and all in His name!  I should think he's fed up to the back teeth with it all.  All that is really required is for us to love one another; to treat each other with respect and compassion; to acknowledge God as our creator, and to have a personal dialogue with Him in the form of prayer.  To this end, I don't think He cares one iota where we choose to pray.
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First, realize you are in a warfare for your soul. The Bible clearly states this. What do they do in war? They release propoganda, send false orders, jam signals, anything to throw the opposing army off balance.\n\nI will try to take all of your questions one-by-one...\n\n"What is the meaning of all the trial's we must face?"\nBoot camp. Faith is your shield, the Bible your sword. Learn to use it.\n\n"Also why is there not one clearly correct religon?"\nHostile jamming from the enemy. The Bible has clearly defined what is right and what is true. What is light and what is of darkness.\n\n"Why does it all have to be so complicated?"\nIf you believe that Jesus is Lord and Savior, died for our sins and rose again on the third day, and is coming again for the church. You have everything you need. The rest is either learning more about the Lord, or distraction and noise.\n\n"I know all this stuff is supposed to bring us closer to God but man when is enough enough?"\nHow does the smelter (Jesus) know when the gold is purified enough to be remove from the crucible? When He sees reflection in the gold.\n\n"Why hasn't the true path been made clear?"\nJesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Can't get any clearer than that except for John 3:16\n\n"Each individual religon will tell you that "oh yes our religon is the correct religon" Whats the truth and why is it just not abundantly clear?"\nYou will find the answer to this question at my links below...\nhttp://schnebin.blogspot.com/2006/05/gods-word-proven.html\nhttp://tinyurl.com/rkuqy\nhttp://tinyurl.com/nyjzb\n\n"I would hate to live my whole life as a Christian only to die and find out that I should of been somtheing else."\nWas Jesus a liar? No. He was God incarnate and therefore unable to lie. So lean on the words of Jesus.\n\nJesus said, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out."\n\n“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”\n\n"does this make sense?"\nAbsolutely. Feel free to contact me for encouragment in the coming battles.
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Some religion causes some wars. \n\nThe Christian religion has also developed the "just war" doctrine to determine if a war is justified.\n\nThe “just war” doctrine requires rigorous consideration to determine if defense by military force is legitimate. Offensive war is never justified. All the following considerations must be true to justify war:\n1. The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;\n2. All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;\n3. There must be serious prospects of success;\n4. The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. \n\nReligion is also the hope for less war in the future.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Our enemy very much wants christians disabled, harmed, maimed and killed.  When I am down, oppressed, in difficult situations I've wondered why God gave me life.  He says in His Word that HE LOVES ME, but sometimes I don't believe it.  It is at these times I have wanted to die.  \n\nWhen I cry out to HIM, he rescues me in a variety of ways.  Most recently when I was in a situation when I questioned being around He gave me Ephesians 6:10 in a way that was significant, "Last of all I want to remind you that your strength must come from the Lord's mighty power within YOU!".  I was trying to find my own strength within me to get through.  He reminded me that strength is inside me, but it is HIS MIGHTY POWER?  With that kind of power invested in me I believed and got through the bad situation.\n\nYes, I have contemplated suicide and turned to God's Word, Holy Spirit, friends, family and church.  When I hurt, I run to SAFE place.  SAFE place is ALWAYS within me with Holy Spirit.\n\nAdditionally, I attend a church that dedicates Monday and Friday nights to a Growth and Healing community.  I've found comfort in learning ways to cope with oppression from the enemy that seeks to destroy my life in Christ and Freedom.  The class that helped me the most was based on a book called "Breaking the Power: of Unmet Needs, Unhealed Hurts, Unresolved Issues in Your Life!" by Liberty Savard.\n\nAnother resource I found helpful when I  travel away from a solid church family is radio ministry by David and Karin Mains.  As silly as it might sound, I've got a lot of encouragement from their trilogy of books called, "Kingdom Tales: Tales of the Kingdom, Tales of the Resistance and Tales of the Restoration.  These are children's books that cover situations where there is struggle among christians battling and succeeding despite evil on lots of levels.\n\nGod has rescued me as SAVIOR again and again.  He is my place that protects me from myself when I do not want to live.  He brings me peace when I feel there can be no rest or peace.  I don't understand it, but God gets me through no matter how sad or down or upset I get.  He reliably gets me through in a variety of ways.  \n\nI believe many christians and non-christian struggle because of our enemy.  Following are some words by John Wimber regarding this.\n\n"None of this is to imply, however, the Christian life is a bowl of cherries. Once we place our trust in Christ, we are drafted into a fierce spiritual battle.  ...For example the enemy follows no rules of war. Satan considers nothing unfair; he is not a gentleman. ...\n\n"Although he follows no rules, we know Satan attacks on 3 fronts: through the flesh, world and direct assault.  ... \n\n"Our situation is similar to that of an underground army living in a land still occupied by a defeated enemy. Such was the French undergrounds role after D-Day during WW2. Though their eventual defeat was certain, The Germans were still capable of committing atrocities on French civilians. The 1984 arrest and trial of Klaus Barle illustrates how barbarios the Germans' acts were: knowing there was no hope for German victory, Barbie nevertheless tortured and murdered hundreds of French - including children.  He was nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon."\n\nE-mail me if you'd like to talk further.  I think you have a lot of folks who care about you! Perhaps more than you know or imagine.  Hope\n\nYOU matter to God. YOU are LOVED.  YOU are IMPORTANT.
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Yes, HE said to Moses "Now let me be, that my anger may blaze against them and I may exterminate them, and let me make you into a great nation" Ex. 32:10.\nWell, God was talked into changing HIS Mind by Moses' reasoning with  HIM.\nIsn't that wonderful?
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Not sure ..looking how religion has been the bases for so many wars and deaths..it is something to think about
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People may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.\nWhen we understand correctly what God does, and What God doesn't then all our complaints will end.
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I doubt God even cares where one country begins and one ends.  All through history, boundry lines have moved, countries created, others absorbed, do you really think God cares about all that?  God cares about people, not government.  It makes me laugh when politicians say "God is on our side"  God doesn't protect one side of a war and leaves the other open to anything.  He protects those who are not evil, those who love him.
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Great question.\n\nOne could reason that God created man with the hope that he would not seek knowledge and learn the mysteries of the universe.  Adam was forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge.\n\nNothing in the Bible says anything about science or technology or anything to to with knowledge.  It sticks with human interactions and relationships with each other and God.  The commandments tell us how to act and what to do and not to do with respect to each other.  \n\nTo answer your question about how God wants us to deal with nuclear bombs, it is there in the commandments.  Thou shalt not kill.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are true Christians; they do *NOT* 'declare war' on anyone.\n\nTrue Christianity is unique in that it has no provision for its adherents to engage in warfare. Those ostensible "Christians" who do so ignore the Scriptures and the teachings and example of Jesus Christ himself.\n\n(Matthew 26:52) Jesus said to him: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword\n\n(Isaiah 2:4) They will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.\n\n(2 Corinthians 10:3-4) We do not wage warfare according to what we are in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly\n\n(Luke 6:27-29) I [Jesus] say to you who are listening, Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you, to bless those cursing you, to pray for those who are insulting you. To him that strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/g/2002/4/8/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/t15/peaceful.htm
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it really depends on which god you're speaking of. the god of the jews and christians (being one in the same) is an all knowing god and hardly needs to ask us anything. war being the current political issue on the books i guess the ? could be something in the neighborhood of "why is oil so important to you when i've offered you other alternatives?" spiritually speaking i'm guessing the ? could be "you see the miracle of life all around you every day and still you question my existance.  what don't you understand?" as a mere mortal i can hardly speculate as to the wonderings of a diety. as your fellow human i have to ask "if god were real?" be you pagan, christian, jew, or muslam, you simply cannot question the existance of at least some supreme being.
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That is a good question, ESPECIALLY when God said that he will do away with Wars once and for all (Isa. 2:4, Dan. 2:44) Why would a God fearing person want to go to war if God himself said he was going to do away with wars.  There is no issue about freedom here, because if we belong to Christ, as Christians state, they already ARE free.\n\nAdd on top of that the fact that war is murder and murderers will not inherit God's kingdom  (Rev. 21:8)  True Christians would not go to, or support, war.
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i dont know if your a religious person, and im sorry if your not, but from what ive heard from the bible and stuff is that there is war to make the world go on. and in the bible it says when there is peace, and all war has stopped, that will be the end of the world. so if you think about it, war is aactually a good thing. i hope that helped. and again, sorry if your not a religious person. it some times offened religious people when others talk about god and the bible. so, sorry.
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For heavens sake dont ever think of WAR first and then about its experience.\nWar is nothing but overall destruction. War seperates families.War destroys industries/buildings/bridges/propetrties/schools/hospitals.\nIt kills the soldeirs both side who are citizens of some country or the other,as well as innocent citizens who are not part of any army. It kills young and old alike. People are left with maimed organs for entire life.\nEven after the war is over one does not know where the hiddeen mines are which explodes when some one trips over.\nIt is horror , a terrorised experience to go thro and service . What a taste you have \nAre you joking when you ask was it hard living through it . want some one to say he enjoyed living through it. \nNot only the warring nations but all the rest of the world suffers and pay a price because of shortages of many items due to diversion of items to war fronts.