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NASB | Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant (treaty) with them nor show mercy and compassion to them. |
Subject: How do we open eyes to truth? |
Bible Note: Greetings Coop1! Herein lies our basic disagreement concerning the Bible: I don't believe that the Bible teaches that either war or killing is always wrong. The simple fact is that God COMMANDED Israel to go to war! Therefore, it cannot be evil in at least that instance. Thus, one cannot say that war is always wrong. Or, you are saying that God commanded Israel to do evil. God also commanded the deaths of people. Sometimes, He even commanded "innocent" women and children to be killed. We can disagree about when war is justified or not, but I simply don't see any Biblical argument that rules it all automatically. There is no verse which says, "War is always wrong, thou shalt never kill!" If there were such a verse, God Himself violated it! By the way, we are not bombing innocent children. We are bombing the soldiers of the Taliban who have choosen to back a terrorist organization that has and will continue to attack us unless they are stopped. Let's compare actions, shall we? 1) They bomb, with planes, the Trade Towers. In those towers, were thousands of people who were simply going to work. They had not done anything to the terorrists. They had not done anything to the Taliban. In fact, most of them probably had no clue who the Taliban were. But, 4,000 of them are now dead because an evil group decided that they could make a point by killing them. 2) We demanded that these murders be turned over for trial. The Taliban refused. Indeed, they support these terorrists (primarily because they receive their funding from these terorrists). So, we go in and take out the ability of the Taliban to do war and native Afghans are the ones who are fightening to overthrow a government, of foreigners, who came in 1996 and seized control. I don't think there is any comparison. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |