On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, we learned that President Barack Obama is going to send in 30,000 more United States troops to Afghanistan in hopes to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011. Fortunately, the Bible has a lot to say on the subject of war, and there are plenty of Christian views on war.
Question:
As a Christian, what is your opinion on this? Do you agree with it? Do you disagree with it? Is it biblical?
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:15 PM
The twin towers terrorist attack was a strong declaration of war, and sending troops to those who attacked us I believe was the right choice to make. The war had already begun with those attacks and as a shift commander it was our presidents duty to protect his people, and even though many soldiers have died, it would’ve been worse if the war had taken place in our very own streets, had he decided to wait longer for other attacks to take place before people would fully support him. We see in the bible how God was in Moses’ side when fighting for his people, we see how when the fight is for the right cause even God supported one side of the war. We all tend to see what we’d like things to be, yet only our Generals of war and those experts who investigated these attacks might know the complete truth about this matter, but when some one kills hundreds of people with a terrorist attack, every man, Christian or no Christian must fight to protect their people and stop the attacker who has decided he can take the life of those who oppose their cause when only God should decide who lives or dies.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 AM
I disagree totally with the committment of more innocent men and women of the armed forces. If bible is to be followed no there is nothing anyone can do I SAY no human being on earth can diffuse what is going on in the area. If you give these people all they want there will still be something else. All the human and financila resources expending on this region should be well used containing the people. We are talking about people whom we all know to be controlled by something they too cannot understand. Excuse me is God so lame that he needs the help of human to fight his battle of course no. These are twisted people who is fighting the battle of there God. They cannot see beyond thre nose. Who is the person that does not want a bit of peace in there life?
Tit 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Tit 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Tit 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 AM
I think there is plenty of Biblical precedent for sending people to war; the Bible is full of bloody wars sanctioned by God. However, I think that our President might benefit from a little guidance from God when choosing which of our troops to send into harm’s way for the benefit of our country. When God instructed Gideon on choosing which troops to send into battle, he told him to have the entire army drink from the lake, and only select those troops that lapped up the water like dogs. Those who knew how to drink water properly like human beings were unfit to go to battle in God’s opinion. ( See Judges 7:4-8.) I’m sure we could win a war with troops who are as smart as dogs, and if not, then God must prefer our enemies over us.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 AM
if we dont fight them there we will have to fight them here one day. pray for our troops
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:47 PM
With regard to my opinion of the additional 30,000 troops to be sent to Afghanistan? I do not personally think that war and the killing of humans by other humans is a God thing or a Biblical thing no matter how many Scriptures can be pointed to as reference! War and murder is an insane human “mind” created thing and all these other guises and excuses are simply scapegoats. It is insanity, pure and simple and the insanity is intensified by so-called Christians saying that in some perverse way they can find justification in Scripture. If everyone on our planet just simply followed a great Rabbi’s teaching to live life in a perpetual state of forgiveness and love your enemies, eventually the tide of madness will eventually be reversed but it will never be reversed as long as people sit around waiting on some supernatural event in the future to save them and not go to work on themselves individually right now!!! The Messiah taught enlightenment in the here and now but very few understand the true message…it has been obscured by commercialism and moneychangers!!!
TommyC
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 PM
As a Christian I don’t really support war. There shouldn’t be war unless some abomination like the Holocaust is going on, war was fine in that instance because I can’t imagine any Christian letting a thing like that continue. but nothing that bad has happened since so I guess I support not the war, but the brave men and women fighting it. I care most about the tropps out there and there families
January 16th, 2010 at 11:48 AM
From a Biblical point of view, God really does not have a problem with war, or killing in general for that matter, so I don’t see what the problem is with escalating the war.