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Okay… Because I deleted that… I will be brief in summing up…

1. I am open minded. I have a belief system already, but in no way claim to know it all, and be always right. I, being man, am prone to err as are we all.

2. If you can show me where the scriptures prohibit self defense (the collective scriptures). I will definitely re-think.

Okay… so I don’t believe that Jesus commanded us to self defense, but instead that it is an option that we have. Furthermore may I remind you that anything in the old and new testament is Jesus word. All of it. He wrote every bit. This leads to my big point:

I believe that the entire word of God, from the OT to the NT is equal. What changed in the NT is something that was foretold, and was pointed to in the OT. Jesus full filled certain things, he didn’t change them. Because to say that the NT trumps the OT is to say that Jesus’s words now trump Jesus’s then. Jesus’s words never have to trump Jesus’s words. They never contradict.

Furthermore… You argue as if the apostles and Jesus were acting under the NT when they weren’t. They were acting under the OT. The New Covenant did not start until after Jesus accession (I’m not 100 percent sure when after that). They were still under the OT context. And Jesus was acting with a special purpose, one of substitution atonement. He’s not calling us to the same thing he was calling himself to.

I believe that the moral law has not changed one bit. Nothing said in the NT trumps that said in the OT, because it doesn’t have to. Jesus never has to reverse something he said before. If he did, what does that say about our God?

And no… I am not offended 🙂 You’re just fine.