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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. |
Bible Question:
Radioman and Tim, I am really sorry to dissapoint you, but you will not find "war is evil" anywhere in the Bible. I would love to tell you that common sense teaches you that war is evil but I would be lieing. First of all, I'd like to tell Tim that you have experienced war first hand and that I know you positively know war is evil because you saw destruction and caos at its best. May God bless you a hundred thousand times more. I was 33 years old when God found me. I was very naive, I did not know the difference between evil and good. I knew completely nothing, nothing about people, nothing about life. I was a lost sheep following everybody else around, led by whoever could take advantage of me the most. When I started reading the bible and searching for God's truth, he responded and he responded so strongly I could never leave him nor forsake him, just like he will never leave me nor forsake me. I will not lie about this and tell you that it is common sense or I assumed war is evil just from reading the whole Bible. I know war is evil because God taught me evil and good as he was converting me, and since I now know what is good and what is evil, I cannot do evil. If I do evil I would be hurting God. We are all his children, the whole world is his. Imagine you were the father and you see your children fighting and killing each other. What would you do as the father? I'd spank each and everyone of them. If you were in the middle of the war, would you kill? Is it okay for someone else to kill for you? When you are watching TV and you see someone getting killed, Does your heart shrink or do you laugh? |
Bible Answer: Martha, I am sorry, I am not tim or radioman, but I dont think your not quite right when you stated that war is not evil. I know that in the time of Old testament God through Moses commanded people of Israel to go to war in order to protect thier faith (JEWISH) because at that time only JEWISH people worship the true GOD. If we recall that when Babylons invaded Israel Daniel and other people of Israel force to worship Idols. There is the reason why Israel has to do battle against the nations that not worshiping God. But in the time of Jesus Christ we have now part of the commonwealth of Israel: Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: We are now even Gentiles worshiping the same God. There are no reason to go to war against each other. He (Jesus) never encouarage anyone to go to war or to fighback. Some passages that will explain that war is evil. Jas 4:1 ΒΆ From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Jas 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. with that passages, if lusts desire to kill is still not evil for you, what can I say is I dont think so. Another example: Re 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. Re 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. Re 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Gog and magog will do "battle" against to the beloved city. Battle is very the same as war. At Re 20:10 it was mentioned, "And the devil that deceived them" who decieved the gog and Magog to do war against the beloved city? THE DEVIL! so if the devil who decieve them to go to war meaning THE WAR IS EVIL in this particular time. I dont think if the devil decieve them and we call them HOLY? Your Statement"We are all his children, the whole world is his. Imagine you were the father and you see your children fighting and killing each other. What would you do as the father?" Let the scriptures answers that: Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. See? Biblically speaking, The devil also has His own children here in this world I hope it would help. God bless, Johnny |