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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (5968)	3/7/2007 12:19:33 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

How can you make such a claim considering Biblical examples to the contrary? I limited my claim to the Gospel. There are no examples in the New Testament "to the contrary." Are you suggesting that, despite possible extermination, Christians simply pray for their murderers, turn their other cheek, and when a terrorist cuts off their right hand offer the left? :^) No. Jesus did not promote passive martyrdom. He says to flee such things. Paul appealed to Rome to escape the kangaroo court in Jerusalem as well as murder plots against his life there. Yet, it is not always possible to flee or to appeal to the government. In such cases where no choice but death is present what do you suggest they do? What do the Sudanese Christians do? The Muslim government is against them with guns and prisons. Their test is whether they will repudiate their faith to live or maintain their faith and die. They haven't any means to defend themselves nor is any other government taking up their cause to my knowledge. Christians are commanded to pray for their enemies, for that is what Christ did and others such as Stephen at the end of Acts 7 did. Also, Paul, who received many wounds and mistreatments at the hands of his fellow Israelites who were hostile to him and his message said at the beginning of Romans 9 that he could wish to be accursed from Christ if it meant their salvation. Christians have often displayed a divine love for their enemies because of the indwelling Spirit of Christ. As to turning the other cheek and not resisting evil as it says in the sermon on the mount: these verses had to do with not seeking personal vengeance when wronged, not with passive acceptance of suffering.