Bible Question: My question is about holy wars. Before I can to Christ my family and I had an issues with all the wars that were fought over Christianity, but now I'm not so sure I was the Christians that started or wanted to fight. Please clarify the roles of Christians had in the previous historical wars. |
Bible Answer: SingerofPraises Let me take a stab at this. Men that call themselves Christians or claim to be Christians have started wars. However point to any one war and to accurately say that was started by Christians is close to impossible. Christians are often blamed for the crusades. And on the surface and with the recent phenomena of the acceptability of revising history it appears they went out of their way to get the conflict started. However Islam which was sweeping through the world was doing it by conquest and they had taken the “Holy Lands” by that conquest. Therefore the question must be asked did the crusades start a war or were they an attempt to regain capture territory? At one time Constantinople it was the hot bed of Christianity until Islam overran it nearly eliminating every Christian in the process, and so it was in Jerusalem. Muslims were attacking the Christian Pilgrims as they attempted a pilgrimages to Jerusalem and eventually the sentiment against Islam grew within Europe. Did Christian men ride off into battle? Absolutely but was it because if Christian conviction and the teaching of Christ? No it was not it was because of a misguided, misdirected desires to serve God and take the Holy Land out of the hands of the pagans. The real answer to the question your asking is did Christ and therefore true Christianity ever teach or promote war? The answer is no, unlike most every other religion that justifies war in some way to promote their teaching Christianity does not. I hope this answers your question EdB |
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