Though some may contest the point—and I’ve heard them do so for years—there is something profoundly unsettling about watching those who follow Jesus, the Prince of Peace, use weapons of warfare to kill others and still think they are somehow following Jesus. At the simplest level of evangelicalism—and by that I mean anyone who affirms salvation in Christ alone—it impossible for me to comprehend how a Christian can kill a non-Christian who is thereby prevented from turning to Christ, just as it is also beyond me how any Christian can kill another Christian at the orders of state military
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