Lay down your life for your friends, NOT take the life of your enemies, at the say-so of the Lord's appointed "powers that be" in Romans 13 v 1-7.
And when you are meant to lay down your life for friend and foe.
And love your enemy, too.
Why all the killing by the Onward Christian Soldiers with their grossly OTT obedience to the godless and secular and most unchristian authorities?
It is all because of Paul in Romans 12 and not because of Christ in Matthew 5, 6 and 7. And elsewhere.
HE laid down his life to show Western Jews and Christians that we are NOT meant to slaughter our fellow children of Abraham nor one another as we have been doing so enthusiastically since the beginning of the last century. Actually, since the tragic conversion of Emperor Constantine in 300 AD/CE.
Christian societies brought Western empires, chattel Slavery and never an end to all the much-loved slaughter in our frequent wars.
Something is desperately wrong with our 'Christian' discipleship. And with our Western morality. And with our conscience.
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