Jesus practiced love of enemy to his own death, and the New Testament presents this teaching as an unqualified commandment to be obeyed by his followers (Matthew 5.39; 44). This is in stark contrast to Jesus’ own Jewish Law and tradition regarding “holy war” (Deuteronomy 20) and lethal self-defense (Exodus 22.2).
This site will also explore how Pacifism and Nonresistance movements, mainly of the last century, have misrepresented the New Testament’s prohibition on the use of lethal violence for Christians.
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February 9, 2025
The council of Nicea in 325AD is infamous for making those belonging to what I call the Jesus-is-God movement “Orthodox” (I.e., holding to a right teaching). But it’s also […]
February 9, 2025
Part of “Towards the Cessation of Church Suicide,” A.F. Buzzard, A Journal from the Radical Reformation, Vol. 5 No. 4, 1996. The only antidote to the […]
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D.W. Bercot, The Early Christian View of War. Despite the early Church’s condemnation of war and killing, it did not require a soldier to leave the […]