J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders

in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV.

Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christiane.

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity, I am J. Warner Wallace.

We're going to talk about an issue today that is related to other recent broadcasts we've

done, in which we're talking about the use of force, and whether or not, for example,

police officers could use force, especially if you're a Christian, could you be a Christian

and hold a position other than pacifism? Is Jesus a pacifist? And so, therefore, as Christ

followers, we also ought to be following as footsteps as pacifists. There's a rich history of

Christian pacifism in the church. This is a question we probably need to ask ourselves, especially

if we ever are going to judge whether or not other Christians are acting Christ-like when they're

used to the use of force, especially when we see it in the law enforcement, for example,

could there be, when I get to ask that question, hey, can I hold to Christian values and be a

police officer? Some people are immediately offended by the question because they're like, hey,

of course you can, you know, but you know, this would be great for all police officers.

I think really sometimes what they're really asking, the questioner is really asking,

is could I use force to the level I'm probably going to be asked to use it at some point in my

career and do this from a Christian worldview because isn't Jesus a pacifist? I've talked about

this a little more in depth at a article on our website and titled the same thing as Jesus a

pacifist. And so what I want to do is to kind of run through this with you. And I'm talking about

the nature of Jesus of Nazareth, if we want to be more like Jesus though, we have to know something

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