';What do I communicate to a man about the love of God by being willing to consider him an enemy...?

...What do I say about forgiveness if I punish him for the sins of his rulers? How is it reconcilable with the gospel--good news--for the last word in my estimate of any man to be that, in a case of extreme conflict, it could be my duty to sacrifice his life for the sake of my nation, my security, or the political order which I prefer?





The idea that human life is intrinsically sacred is not a specifically Christian thought. But the gospel itself, the message that Christ died for his enemies, is our reason for being ultimately responsible for the neighbor's--and especially the enemy's--life. We can only say this to him if we say to ourselves that we cannot dispose of him according to our own will.';





Quotation from John Howard Yoder, Christian theologian, 1966


Happy Easter everyone!';What do I communicate to a man about the love of God by being willing to consider him an enemy...?
Pretty good argument to end wars that is for sure.';What do I communicate to a man about the love of God by being willing to consider him an enemy...?
The problems with living human kind is that they do not like to be told what to do out there in planet of apes.


With Luke 2.32


Will kick them on their butts with the knowledge one master in planet of apes.


With ';Where do I begin';


Have to trace the footprints for them while they were living in misery out there in planet of apes.
You can let him kill you. Do you think that will tell him more about the love of God. What did the Germans learn of the love of God as the Jews were slaughtered because they would not fight.





Did not Christ himself curse the the fig tre for not bearing fruit even when it was not the season for it to do so.





Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:


Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;


Ecc 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;


Ecc 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;


Ecc 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;


Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;


Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.


Ecc 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?


Ecc 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.


Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.


Ecc 3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.


Ecc 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.


Ecc 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.


Ecc 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.


Ecc 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.


Ecc 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.


Ecc 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.


Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.


Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.


Ecc 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?


Ecc 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?