[CS-FSLUG] OT: "“Bring Your Guns to Church” Sunday"

[sjm]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:40:48 -0500, Fred A. Miller 
> <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> 
>> Christians should be aware that the use of force in preservation of 
>> life is a biblical doctrine...
> 
> Nor am I averse to countering something which seems quite popular. ;-)
> 
> What works well under the Laws of God (Noah and Moses are both Law 
> Covenants) may not always fit too well in the Covenant of Grace. For 
> people who are spiritually dead, there are the Laws, which notoriously 
> do not fit all cases. For people who are spiritually alive, raised from 
> the dead, grace trumps the Laws.
> 
Even in the OT, David's hands were too bloody to build the temple and 
the revered victories were always ones that were attributed to God 
rather than man or their weapons (e.g. Gideon).

sjm