Christians oftentimes accuse other Christians of cowardice and even an accessory after the fact for teaching that we should let authorities deal with violence. From the […]

Luke 22:36 is still used today to claim Jesus gave Christians a blanket command to arm themselves—for personal defense, and neighbor, or even to justify Christian […]

According to the prophets, God will not merely judge isolated individuals but all the nations of this world—through their rulers (kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers, and […]

The New Testament shows that all Christian violence is eschatological—reserved for the end times at the parousia. That is the time when Christians will be called […]

Too many Christians assume eternal conscious torment in hell from NT verses like Matthew 25:46. They’ll say, “Yeah, but sin is against an eternal God, so […]

Jehovah’s Witnesses often appeal to a handful of New Testament texts to justify their practice of strict shunning. The official Watchtower website article defines “shunning” as […]

“The plain fact is that the church since the first century and with few exceptions has never, despite its protestations, taken Christ with complete seriousness…‘Let this […]

The first Christian generations stood apart from the violence and vengeance that characterized the ancient world. Those who followed Jesus understood his teachings on peace, love […]

The Bible consistently equates the unborn with a child, baby, or full human being, attributing personhood from conception. In Luke 1 Elizabeth is 6 months pregnant […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]