Combat Operations and Christianity with Jason Sweet, Veteran USAF Special OPs

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” said James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution. Since our natures are bent toward evil, someone must have the authority to protect innocent people from those who want to do evil. God gave the government that authority. Is it Christian to use force to restore the peace? Frank invites former USAF Pararescue jumper (PJ), Jason Sweet, on the show to discuss how special forces training and combat operations provide parallels to the Christian life. Jason, who now trains special forces candidates through socomathlete.com, shares his experience in PJ training and in combat in Afghanistan. This is a fascinating show. If you want to send us a question for the show, please email us at Hello@CrossExamined.org. Subscribe on iTunes: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast rate and review! Thanks!!! Subscribe on Google Play: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Google Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher CombatOperationsChristianityJasonSweet-IDHEFTBAAPodcast(7.24.20)

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:06.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.0	Is that true?
0:15.0	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:18.0	They're talked out of it.
0:20.0	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.0	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.
0:32.0	Ladies and gentlemen, there's only two ways to resolve a dispute.
0:36.0	You can resolve a dispute through principle, or you can try and resolve a dispute through power.
0:42.0	Principle or power. In other words, you can bring arguments and reason to a problem and try and get agreement.
0:48.0	Or you can just try and crush the other side through power regardless of the argument, regardless of the reasons.
0:55.0	And as you see in our culture today, a lot of people are trying to do the latter.
0:58.0	They're trying to cancel people. They're just a cancel culture out there.
1:01.0	They don't want to have a debate. They want to cancel the debate.
1:05.0	Now, from a biblical perspective, God had instituted government to use the sword.
1:13.0	This is Paul speaking in Romans 13 to establish and reestablish peace.
1:18.0	You see, here's the problem.
1:19.0	When people want to break the peace by resorting to power or force, the government has instituted police and the military to reestablish the peace.
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