It's Thursday, March 3rd, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

Very sad news coming out of Ukraine as the Ukrainian people continue a very brave defense against

the Russian invasion and offensive.

One of the interesting things to note right now is the fact that to the

moral horror of a watching world Russia is using munitions against civilians that are outlawed

by the Geneva Convention.

We're looking at so-called cluster munitions, but we're also looking at the intentional effort

to use weaponry that will scare the Ukrainian people into subservience or surrender. This form of psychological

warfare is very common as you look at the history of warfare throughout the centuries

of world history, but we need to understand that as we are in the modern world, there are new weapons

that bring even deadlier opportunities for striking against civilians.

Now, as you are thinking through this, I just want to take us back to some basic issues of Christian

worldview thinking when it comes to war. And as we're thinking about war, the Christian Church

has had to struggle with this issue for a matter of centuries.

There have been very few periods of peace in the world.

Generally at some point, somewhere in the world there's armed conflict.

The Christian worldview based in a realistic

understanding of sin understands that human individuals will sin but also

collectives of human individuals will sin and that includes communities at one level, tribes at another,

and nations. Nations will war against nations.

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