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Originally Posted by Aquila
Bro...I believe real men trust Jesus. I trust that God will protect my family from such a circumstance. Do you believe God will allow someone to rape or murder your family?
I believe the spiritually immature don't trust God to protect them...so naturally they need guns and knives etc.
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Aquila, it's not up to God, Brother. Man still has free will. God can no more control a criminal than He could stop me from completely walking away from Him. This is what guys like you don't seem to understand. I saw a program on MSNBC the other night about 5 friends who were all in the same house one night. At least two of these people were Christians, because they made the point that they had decided to keep their friendship as just friends because they both were considering different areas of ministry. Well, a knock came at the door, someone answered it, and two guys forced their way into the house. They eventually raped the two women, forced the three men in the house to have sex with the women too, then proceeded to take them all out into the country and shoot them in the head. Four of them died. This is the world we live in, Aquila. There's no doubt in my mind that God could have somehow supernaturally prevented these criminals from committing those horrible crimes. Guess what? He didn't. That's reality, Brother. God did not stop those criminals from shooting all five of those young people.
I'd rather have to deal with the consequences of knowing I killed a man intent on hurting my family than living with the guilt and shame of knowing I did nothing while someone violated them. Call it sin. Call it being a boy. Call it whatever you want to call it. My job is to keep them from harm. If that means killing someone who wants to hurt them, then so be it. If someone tries to hurt my family they had better be prepared to die for them because I am more than willing to kill for them.
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