Jesus Christ Was Not A Pacifist, He Believed In War And Crusading Against The Enemy | Walid Shoebat
Jesus Christ Was Not A Pacifist, He Believed In War And Crusading Against The Enemy
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By Theodore Shoebat
By Theodore Shoebat
Jesus Christ was not a pacifist, He believed in holy war and crusading against the enemy. Christ did not believe in unjust or secular war, but the use of holy war against those who persecute the Church and desire the destruction of Christianity.
The common argument is, “I never see Christ declaring war!” But the argument is illogical. Christ didn’t have to declare temporal war in order to believe in war. Its the equivalent to saying that those who have never declared a war are automatically pacifists. There is no sense in such arguments.
Its true, Christ never declared “a war,” but He believed in war. Christ said:
The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. (Mark 12:29-30)
Now, how can this verse be applied? When reading the New Testament, one must always do so in light of the Old Testament, and vice-versa, never isolating a text to the exclusion of the other. When something is stated in the New Testament that is also stated in the Old, we should always see how it is applied in the latter.
Christ, when He said this, was quoting Moses when he said:
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deuteronomy 6:4-5)
