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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Should Christians Go to War? Yes. | Questions You're Asking | Romans 13.3-4

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Mental Health

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Last week, https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller) said Christian's shouldn't go to war. But this week, https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastor Keith Simon) says the opposite. Find out way as we continue our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/questions-youre-asking/ (Questions You're Asking). Interested in more content like this? Make sure to check out last week's episode with the counter-argument: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/should-christian-go-to-war-no/ (Should Christians Go to War? No.) Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0

Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

0:11.5

I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're

0:14.9

answering questions that you're asking. A lot of these are coming from our

0:18.4

Facebook page so if you follow Tim Minut a Bible talks on Facebook you can ask questions that you want us to answer or vote

0:26.2

on questions that other people are asking.

0:28.8

It's 1941 and you're the President of the United States. The world is in turmoil.

0:35.4

Germany under Hitler is marching through Europe. It looks like soon they will

0:41.1

dominate the whole continent. What would you do if you were in that situation?

0:46.1

Would it be right as a Christian for you to call our nation to war? If you were in the military,

0:51.7

would it be right for you to go to war?

0:55.0

In other words, would it fit with the biblical worldview that you hold?

1:00.0

You could ask the same questions after 9-11 when the United States was attacked by terrorists.

1:06.8

If you had been president then or if you had been a member of the military, what would you

1:11.1

have done?

1:12.1

Would you have felt confident as the president leading our nation into war?

1:16.0

Or would you have been confident in participating in the war had you been in the military?

1:22.0

You might have already listened to the previous... the war had you been in the military.

1:23.6

You might have already listened to the previous episode where Patrick argued that Christians

1:27.5

shouldn't go to war.

1:29.4

That view is called pacifism.

1:31.4

And while Patrick argued that position, I don't think he's really a pacifist.

1:36.4

It doesn't take much imagination to come up with some scenarios that he would favor

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