re: This is a spiritual battle, not a political one(Christian thread)

Ive seen people say this is Christian martyrdom but I dont think so. This was simply taking out a guy that was effective at destroying the left's recruiting ground.

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Many Christians are gonna say "turn the other cheek" There is a distinction which MUST be clarified. Yes we pray for those who hate US. We love OUR enemies. These people hate God. They reject God. We ARE to hate those who hate God. They are our enemies. They have to be defeated and its very important that as a Christian, you pray for their defeat and judgement.

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I agree that we can pray that God judges His enemies. There are several imprecatory Psalms that provide this example. However, we need to put our trust in the Lord to change hearts and minds, and we are to do our part by preaching the gospel to the world, and to pray that the Lord would use it to save people and suppress the sins of the nations by His common grace through the influence of the gospel spreading.

God is a God of love, but also of justice. He will judge the wicked perfectly and with more ferocity and holy indignation than we could ever do ourselves, but we also need to remember that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, the godly for the ungodly. He showed mercy to us in our rebellion against Him, and we should ask that He do the same for others, according to His good pleasure, for our good and for His glory.

I agree that we can pray that God judges His enemies. There are several imprecatory Psalms that provide this example. However, we need to put our trust in the Lord to change hearts and minds, and we are to do our part by preaching the gospel to the world, and to pray that the Lord would use it to save people and suppress the sins of the nations by His common grace through the influence of the gospel spreading

We can do both

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governments

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Who makes up the government? People. Christian. Jews. Unorthodox. Atheist. We can’t get along outside of the government.were supposed to trust a group of tribes pulling in opposite directions to do what exactly?

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Keep them in fear, gonna burn in hell. Easier to control that way.

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I think you’ve got a pretty bad understanding of Christianity.

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But that’s very different from the role of government. The state has a job that individuals don’t: keeping order, restraining evil, and punishing wrongdoing. Paul makes this clear in Romans 13, government authority is set in place by God, and rulers “do not bear the sword in vain” (Rom. 13:4). In other words, the state is given responsibility to enforce laws and administer justice, something Christians as individuals are told not to take into their own hands (Rom. 12:19).

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Absolutely, and one of the biggest problems that we currently are facing across the world is that those in "power" are absolutely dominated by the enemy.

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For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

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The evil of the spiritual realm has taken hold of these "leaders" they are at the enemy's behest. So, they don't enforce laws, especially not God's Laws, administer justice or even protect "their" citizens. I do think we are nearing a point where there needs to be a major upheaval of those currently in "leadership" across the world to allow for many more legitimate public servants to be in those roles. However, that also requires those that are legitimately tied to God's word to be willing to lead and serve. Perhaps that is a much larger part of our charge coming from all of this.

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I think removing them from our lives, shunning them, etc is an appropriate response.

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Yes. I have no tolerance for this

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Charlie did. He sacrificed himself in order to engage rather than simply toss
aside those who disagreed with them. He showed bravery and I say that as someone who disagreed with many of political views. Shunning them, publicly shaming them is an understandable response....but then how do you reach the many of those that are young and are misguided into thinking violence is an acceptable answer?

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quote:biggest problems that we currently are facing across the world is that those in "power" are absolutely dominated by the enemy. This is not new. Nor is it specific to Christian’s.quote:tied to God's word to be willing to lead and serve. Perhaps When you say “God” is that the Christian god? Allah? Jewish God. Hindu? Ancient Egypt? Which god? They all have very similar books written about them. I stay confused.

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You are a liar and we see right through you. He mentioned Paul, as well as referencing the Bible. Hes clearly referencing God of the Bible, not any of those false religions. You know this but decided to lie to make a cute little gotcha. We know you are atheist, just sack up and say it

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Yes. I have no tolerance for this. While im not telling people to go shoot them, I think removing them from our lives, shunning them, etc is an appropriate response.

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We are not legally required to read X posts.

If an angry X poster screams in a forest with no one around, does he make a sound?

That platform, and all the others, thrive on "engagement," meaning they calculate your leanings then make sure you see things that will aggravate you so that you get pulled into arguments and feed activity within your acqaintences in return. It's like "social cancer" to be spread. It rewards the most extreme viewpoints.

The fact that the media is obsessed with it amplifies its importance... but in reality, very few people actually use it... in a country of 300,000,000+ there's about 1,000,000 daily X users.

It is one of the worst things to happen to the country, on either side of the political spectrum.