Speaking of God, guns and biblical manhood, as expected, we got a lot of response emails

from that recent episode on guns and many of them from Christians in the military or law

enforcement.

Stephanie wrote in to ask, this Pastor John, my husband is a police officer and we both

want to know what is the best advice for a Christian police officer in regards to

violent or lethal action towards perpetrators of the law that the police department itself

would see as justified.

And then we received a number of questions specifically about the killing of someone

who is a non-Christian.

Joe in Okinawa, Japan is one such listener, he writes in and says this, I'm a fighter pilot

in the U.S. Air Force and the point you mentioned in episode 306 about possibly sending someone

to hell by killing them, sometimes ways on me and other Christian servicemen I know.

For a Christian, how is defending your nation by killing a more different than defending

your family by killing?

Did you ever advocate Christians not serve in the military due to God commanding Christians

not to repay evil for evil?

And related to this, Tyler Drummond in Pennsylvania asks, in episode 306 you said that you would

rather be killed than to kill another because for you it would mean instant joy and for him

it would mean instant hell.

How can capital punishment then be justified because killing a non-believer assures that

they will not come to Christ?

So there's a mix of related follow-up questions here for you, Pastor John.

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