Comment on If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe

• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s usually intrepretet to mean how you react to personal insults by not excalating the situation. Not that you’re not allowed to defend yourself from violence. You’re also expected to defend the people close to you.

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  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doesn’t matter how many people choose to interpret it that way if they can’t justify that interpretation

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    • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Bible tends to contradict itself time and time again, so you can use it to justify just about any interpretation. In Luke 22:36, Jesus tells his disciples, “If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”

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      • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He tells them all to sell their cloaks to buy swords, and the line after that they say they’ve already got two swords between the lot of them, and jesus says yeah actually that’s enough. Then two or three lines later when they attempt to actually use their swords to defend jesus from arrest he rebukes them. As a justification for use of violent force it’s pretty flimsy.

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