Much has been said and written lately regarding the Christian civilian and the use of deadly force (or any force at all, for that matter), with many pastors and Christian leaders weighing in on the subject. Some of these words have been rather rootin’ tootin’ in nature (Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s remarks on December 4, for instance), while some have landed squarely in the pacifist end zone (see Bethlehem College and Seminary Chancellor John Piper’s article of December 22). But the simple truth lies somewhere between these two poles, and I’d like to make the Biblical case for how this works. Continue reading
Gun Control
Shall Not Be Infringed
HOW THE SECOND AMENDMENT REFLECTS BIBLICAL THOUGHT
In my previous article, I established the Biblical principle that citizens should be armed for two basic reasons. The first of these reasons is that we need to be able to protect ourselves in a fallen world against those who would do us harm. The second of these reasons is that we need to be able to keep government from growing tyrannical, for it will always tend to do so. Continue reading
Hitler, Haman and Gun Control
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the 1930’s and 40’s there was a governmental plot afoot to exterminate the Jews, and it succeeded in killing nearly six million descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In the fifth century B.C. there was a governmental plot afoot to exterminate the Jews, but it had a highly different outcome. Here’s how it’s recorded in Scripture: The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did what they pleased to those who hated them (Esther 9:5 NIV). Hitler was successful in his genocidal plot because he had already disarmed his citizens. Haman was unsuccessful in his genocidal plot because King Xerxes had not disarmed his. Continue reading
CRITICAL MASS 