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Should Christians serve in the military?
- Thread starter Grazer
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I say yes.
As a man you are to defend your home, your family. Reading the OT yup Gods people went to war... they went out to war they also defended their home land. The OT is just as much God's Word as the NT.
Tempered by something like this ideal
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!â€
As a man you are to defend your home, your family. Reading the OT yup Gods people went to war... they went out to war they also defended their home land. The OT is just as much God's Word as the NT.
Tempered by something like this ideal
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!â€
jasoncran
Member
ok since i have been to country, tell me why americans dies there so that the locals have food? they die so that they can worship allah as they want to? they die so that they can vote.
i have been shot for that reason. since korea most conflicts america has been in for a long time arent war against said enemy but once the key figures are removed and the threat contained it becomes a nation building act. that happened both in iraq and afghanistan.
what we do isnt that much different then cops do except we have larger guns. i dont like these missions but its that way.
Stormcrow
Member
Well, yes, that's pretty much what it is all about. There are other organizations designed to do the "touchy-feely" work (Peace Corps, anyone?) But the military's primary duty is to defend this nation. They don't give those guys rifles and send them out to the field to plant potatoes with them.
ed!
Stormcrow
Member
Air Force Prayer:
Lord guard and guide the men who fly,
Through the great spaces of the sky,
Be with them traversing the air,
In darkening storms and sunshine fair.
Thou who dost keep with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight,
Thou of the tempered winds, be near,
That, having thee, they know no fear.
Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with thy saving grace.
O God, protect the men who fly
Thro' lonely ways beneath the sky.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
These were two of my favorite poems growing up. They still are.
Lord guard and guide the men who fly,
Through the great spaces of the sky,
Be with them traversing the air,
In darkening storms and sunshine fair.
Thou who dost keep with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight,
Thou of the tempered winds, be near,
That, having thee, they know no fear.
Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with thy saving grace.
O God, protect the men who fly
Thro' lonely ways beneath the sky.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
These were two of my favorite poems growing up. They still are.
Butch5
Member
Well, you know my position. I'm not serving in the kingdom of darkness.
Do you consider police, EMS and firefighters as "serving in the kingdom of darkness"? What about university professors and doctors?
westtexas
Member
Absolutely they should!!! They are overseas so those on forums who don't appreciate our servicemen have the freedom to sit behind their nice safe computer, in their nice safe house, in their nice safe town and and write how terrible our soldiers are!
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
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Butch5
Member
If one is working for the grovernment they are. However, that is not the issue in this thread, rather it's the military.
ReesesPieces
Member
I have such a hard time with this one...I know a few Christians in the military but my bottom line is what exactly are they fighting for?? I have no idea honestly!! Do you? Can someone enlighten me with a answer that makes sense??
The country isnt based on GOD its based on a "god" but not THEE GOD.
Freedom? What freedom we aren't free!! We get away with a lot in America that wouldnt be tolerated in other countries but to say were "free"? I cant agree. After seeing first handidly the way our soilders return home broken, suicudal, not in touch with their faith. I want to say NO they shouldn't, but Im definitely perplexed.....
Butch5
Member
Absolutely they should!!! They are overseas so those on forums who don't appreciate our servicemen have the freedom to sit behind their nice safe computer, in their nice safe house, in their nice safe town and and write how terrible our soldiers are!
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
I didn't see where anyone put down soldiers.
westtexas
Member
This subject comes up every so often. Give it a few pages.
ReesesPieces
Member
I would have to agree with the initial statement and yes they also serve in the "kingdom of darkness" as it was put Professors, doctors, police, ems, firefighters, Looks whos running the show! Im not saying the specific person is necessarily "bad"/"good" but when you look at the whole picture....Yeah, its pretty clear to me.
Stormcrow
Member
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon Bonaparte.
A hypocrite uses the benefits of another blood