«When you go out to
war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.
(Deuteronomy 21:10 - 14 NAB) «When you go out to
war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.
But if God truly does have a violent and bloody side then Jesus was being deceptive, for nowhere in His life or ministry did He reveal God as someone who goes to
war against His enemies or commands the genocide of people who do not love or obey Him.
In this view, since Israel was a theocracy, God, as the «Commander in Chief» sent Israel to
war against her enemies.
Instead, however, He inspired the biblical writers to record that He was the one giving the Israelites the commands to go to
war against their enemies.
When Christians go to
war against their enemies in the name of Jesus Christ, we are not worshipping the God who told us to love our enemies, but are worshipping the demonic being who loves nothing more than to get us to do his bidding while blaming it on God.
Pipiteca, gather yourselves together with me in the house of
war against your enemies, gather yourselves together with me.19
Amanteca, gather yourselves together with me in the house of
war against your enemies, gather yourselves together with me.
But Frank and his wife, Cathie (a presence throughout the book), learned to talk not about «waging
a war against the enemy, cancer.
God commanded Israel to go to
war against their enemies many times in the Old Testament.
In fact,
a war against the enemy who now have our club by the throat.
The humans have developed a superweapon called Project Shockwave and plan on using it to finally end the long lasting
war against their enemies.
March forth to
war against your enemies, use explosives and see their fortifications crumble to dust, then unleash your savage fury with brutal attacks that will see heads rolling and limbs flying.
This time, we are engaged in
a war against an enemy whose primary target is our own freedom, our own democracy, our own way of life.
According to Jagex «All player travel, building, troop training and research times will be accelerated, allowing players to build quicker, train faster and wage
war against their enemies before they've had time to fully prepare.»
War games are as common a video game as any other genre in the market, with dozens of first - person shooters and turn - based strategies tasking players to wage
war against the enemy and recreate some of history's most glorious and gruesome battles in spectacular, explosive fashion.
After the rescue attempts go sour, Max takes it upon himself to launch a one man
war against his enemies, sparing no one as he blasts his way to Fabiana.
The humans have developed a superweapon called Project Shockwave and plan on using it to finally end the long lasting
war against their enemies.
There's even a star turn from Lawrence of Arabia fighting a seemingly futile
war against enemy forces in the desert.
We are waging a two - front
war against an enemy we can't even define.
Do you enjoy commanding armies and wage
war against enemies in a brutal contest of wits while managing the economy of your own group?
Not exact matches
Both generals would earn historical prestige leading their respective armies
against each other during the American Civil
War, but they weren't always
enemies.
A few years into the
wars, American and coalition forces started to realize the twentieth century military mechanism wasn't going to work
against a dangerous, dynamic and vastly decentralized
enemy.
40 oil announced is Putin's reverse phycology to be used
against the Western Central Banks - their dollar
war enemy.
And make ready
against them all you can of power, including steeds of
war (Horses, swords, spear, bow - n - arches, etc.) to threaten the
enemy of Allâh and your
enemy, and others (secret spies) besides whom, you may not know but whom Allâh does know.
The Midianites, the Amorites, the Canaanites and whomever else the Lord gave license to completely destroy themselves more than likely employed the same measures
against their own
enemies that they conquered in
war.
The difference is that the US is complicit in jewish holy
war against the local muslims so the jewish terrorists don't need to blow oneself to kill their
enemies.
We know from our own troubled
War against Terror, how easy it is, when facing a murderous enemy, to slide from just war principles, into acts of abuse and immorali
War against Terror, how easy it is, when facing a murderous
enemy, to slide from just
war principles, into acts of abuse and immorali
war principles, into acts of abuse and immorality.
Also, for the first time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in
wars with its
enemies — which means, of course, that there will be later need for God - fearing men to sacrifice their sons, this time in battle; in the absence of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world
against its
enemies.
Yes, Christians are supposed to love their
enemies, but that hasn't prevented Christians from rightfully engaging in «just
wars»
against their
enemies.
His ferocious jingoism during World
War I» «He who is not with us, absolutely and without reserve of any kind, is
against us, and should be treated as an alien
enemy»» stands as an embarrassment for all of us who revere his memory and admire his undoubted, if flawed, greatness.
Thanks to Augustine, Christians have been endorsing
wars against «Christian
enemies» ever since.
As late as the 1940s King George VI could still seek divine help
against the
enemy in World
War II by calling for a national «Day of Prayer» (though the
enemy was making similar appeals to the same God).
This is a radically different kind of
war against a radically different kind of
enemy, and it requires different rules and different weapons.
One of their documents contains elaborate directions for the organization of an army to fight
against the «Sons of Darkness,» It moves largely in the realms of fantasy, but there is no reason to doubt that these sectaries did look forward to a final
war of liberation ending with the triumph of the Jewish people over all their
enemies.
Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage
war against the evils and suggestions of his
enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.
Pelatiah Webster of Philadelphia defends «Quakers, Mennonists, Moravians, and several other sects scrupulous
against war» from charges that they are «
enemies to liberty and the rights of mankind.
-- was a crucial aspect of what led both press and politicians to accept the idea that a massive
war against an evil
enemy would be both necessary and moral.
Instead, a massive
war against a substitute
enemy leaves the sprawling criminal network intact — perhaps in Afghanistan, certainly in major cities elsewhere.
was a crucial aspect of what led both press and politicians to accept the idea that a massive
war against an evil
enemy would be both necessary and moral.
Treason
against the United States, shall consist only in levying
War against them, or in adhering to their
Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Throughout its history Israel relied upon the military prowess of Yahweh, first in the prosecution of holy
war in defense of the tribal amphictyony, then
against the
enemies of the Lord's anointed (Psalm 2), and finally in expectation of the destruction of all powers oppressing Israel in the last day.
Paul envisions the life of believers, individually and corporately, as a grace - full «
war»
against an age marked by darkness — exploitation, subjugation, enslavement — a struggle in which the «Christ weapons» are made of light: zealous love of strangers and
enemies, wily grace, inventive nonretaliation.
[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force
against force...] And in such a
war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the
enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of
war.13
War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilia
War and the memory of
war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilia
war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but
war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilia
war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power
against terrible
enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.
Smithsonian, this is where you are wrong, the book of remembrance, the so called OT, is not a religion, YHWH is not of religion, or Daniel's vision would not have prophesied just what is going on in this time of false religions, and false governments, and those like yourself are suppose to mislead the people this is what this whole spiritual
war, of His
enemies in Pslams 83, and in Exodus 17:14 - 17, from generation, to generation, it is about the lies of the leaders
against YHWH, who has been told, and warned by YHWH, that your knowledge has deceived you, in Isaiah 47, O, daughter of Babylon.
At its worst it brings us to that mythical messianism — that messianic hoax — of the twentieth century which comes perilously near to the thesis: «Just one little
war more
against the last remaining
enemies of righteousness, and then the world will be cleansed, and we can start building Paradise.»
Pol Pot didn't get elected President of the United States, tell everyone that god was directing him, then lie his way into a groundless
war while we were already fighting one
against a nation that harbored our true
enemy.
The necessities of
war and of defense make political democracy difficult, since the great power that must be mobilized and directed by centralized authority
against enemies abroad is easily turned to the suppression of inconvenient freedoms at home.
«Therefore the United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states «whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies
war against them or adheres to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death,»