Evangelical Support for Trump Eroding?

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(10-10-2018, 09:57 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It's a personal relationship with God; he knows what is in your heart and if your heart is filled with malice to kill then he may not be proud of his child for participating in the act; however, if your heart if full of righteousness then the Lord very well may be pleased. 

For instance in Afghanistan I saw the affects of a young girl having the nerve to try to go to school. She was mutilated and killed and her family's house was attacked. I cannot fathom the thought of a God that would not want to use me as an instrument to work to stop this behavior.

I have a hard time with a god who allows her to be mutilated and killed. But if revenge is in a heart and can used to justify killing someone that is for that person and god to figure out.

(10-10-2018, 09:57 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The men in suits cannot give you the keys to the kingdom, any works you do in your life cannot give you the keys to the kingdom, and pure thoughts cannot give you the keys to the kingdom. Your personal relationship with the lord and your profession of faith gives you the keys.

No they cannot. But they can tell the soldier what to do and they do it. No questions asked because that is what "they signed up for".

I'm not passing judgement that it is "wrong" I am saying that each person needs to justify the balance between serving their god and serving man.

(10-10-2018, 09:57 PM)bfine32 Wrote: So the Soldier, just like the tobacco salesman,  bartender, lawyer that defends the guilty, and the gun manufacturer; is like everyone else. 

Eh, no. The tobacco salesman did not kill someone directly. The lawyer that tries to save a person from punishment is not harming another person. Bad examples.

(10-10-2018, 09:57 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Would you kill someone that was attempting to kill your family?

Honestly...I do not know. Maybe. I cannot conceive of killing another person. Could I do it in self defense? Maybe. I'd prefer to think I could subdue them without killing them. But I am anti-violence and anti-killing. Yet, in the heat of the moment? It could happen.

I didn't sign up to it at another persons command though. And that is what I find fascinating. Again, not wrong or right, but how someone lives their life to get into heaven but agrees to kill other people for the government, of their own free will. And again I don't understand people who say their god tells them to kill people either. It's fascinating to look at. It's also probably why a lot of soldiers suffer mentally when they come home. Something we should do a better job helping them with.