Should Christians Comply With Gun Confiscation?
Patriot Games
SHOULD CHRISTIANS COMPLY WITH GUN CONFISCATION?
By Doug Newman
August 25, 2007
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Jim Z. writes:
"If the government put down a law tomorrow that said we had to turn in all
privately owned fire arms, as Christians, should we obey that law? I am a
Christian and I believe that we should obey that government edict because
they are NOT asking me to disobey God's word...what is your opinion on
this?"
I answered:
I don't know where you are in your knowledge of the Bible. However, if you
rely on most churches anymore for your Bible education, I see how you would
think this. However, the idea that Christians should comply with gun
confiscation is not biblical.
Gun control in any form is not biblical. The Bible tells us that Cain killed
Abel - Genesis 4:8 - but it does not tell us how he did it or with what
tool. Evil lies with people and their deeds, not the tools they use. The
idea that depriving people of inanimate objects will stop them from doing
evil has no basis in Scripture.
Jesus twice instructs His followers to be armed. Consider Luke 11:21-22:
"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are
safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away
the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils."
Christians are to be better armed than their enemies, even when those
enemies are government-sponsored. (1)
Now consider Luke 22:36:
"He said to them, 'But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and
if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.'"
Christians are to be armed. Period. There is no indication anywhere in
Scripture that we should ever relinquish our arms. And if anyone tells you
to surrender your arms ask him where he gets the idea that a Christian
should do this.
Let us look now at the Old Testament.
When you surrender your arms, you give way to the wicked. Proverbs 25:26
likens people like this to "a muddied spring or a polluted well."
I Samuel 13 tells how the Philistines defeated the Jews and put them into
bondage. Consider verses 19-22:
"Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the
Philistines had said, 'Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!' So
all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plowshares, mattocks,
axes and sickles sharpened. The price was two thirds of a shekel for
sharpening plowshares and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening
forks and axes and for repointing goads. So on the day of the battle not a
soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul
and his son Jonathan had them."
The Philistine monopoly on the technology of metals placed the Jews at a
huge disadvantage both agriculturally and militarily. The sword and the
spear were in biblical times what the handgun, rifle and shotgun are today.
Control of weaponry, then and now, means control of people. Disarm people
and you can control and enslave them. This is a biblical principle.
Time and again, we hear that "America was founded on Christian values." (2)
One of those values is spelled out in the Second Amendment to the
Constitution.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The Second Amendment exists to ensure not just any old willy-nilly state,
but a FREE STATE. The wording indicates that the right of the people to keep
and bear arms pre-exists the Constitution, and that it shall not be
infringed. Period. This right applies in good times and bad times, wartime
and peacetime, and in times of serenity and times of crisis. The militia of
which the Founders spoke was not today's National Guard, but all able bodied
citizens. Why? So that - consistent with Luke 11:21-22 - the people may
outgun their government. A disarmed people cannot resist a tyrannical
government.
But doesn't the National Guard do today what this militia did in 1791? Let's
see. Did the Texas National Guard come to the aid of the Branch Davidians?
Did the Idaho National Guard come to the aid of the Weaver family? Did the
Florida National Guard defend Elian Gonzales and his relatives? Is the New
Hampshire National Guard currently defending Ed and Elaine Brown? After
Katrina, did the Louisiana National Guard defend against all infringements
the right of the people of New Orleans to keep and bear arms?
But doesn't Romans 13 tell us always to obey our government? Romans 13 is
the favorite Scripture of control freaks everywhere. Millions of American
Christians are so totally dumbed down that they actually believe Romans 13
tells us to submit unconditionally to earthly authorities at all times.
(Indeed, the Department of Homeland Security is forming "clergy response
teams" (3) of pathetic pulpit pansies whose job it is to lie shamelessly and
tell people just this. There is little difference between these eunuchs and
the German pastors who kissed up to Hitler in the 1930s.)
It depends on who your government is. In America, the "supreme law of the
land" is the Constitution. When soulless government flunkies come to take
away the citizens' guns, it is they who are in rebellion, not the citizens
who so courageously resist.
If you are a Christian, your King has a Kingdom that is not of this world.
(John 18:36) and your ultimate citizenship is not on this earth.
(Philippians 3:20) You must answer to a Higher Authority than tax-subsidized
petty functionaries who want to restrict his God-given, constitutionally
guaranteed rights.
Christ instructs His followers to be light in a world of darkness and salt
in a world of decay. (Matthew 5:13-16) Hence, Christians are to stand
vigilant against tyranny. There are no nice, polite or benevolent tyrannies.
The Bible is full of brave men who defied and resisted earthly rulers.
Indeed, Paul, who wrote Romans 13, was a big time jailbird.
If tyrannizing people is not evil, what is it? If telling Christians that
they have a duty to cave in to tyrants is not lying, what is it? Any pastor
who instructs his flock to cave into tyrants is going to have some serious
splainin' to do someday.
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> http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/comply.html
>
> SHOULD CHRISTIANS COMPLY WITH GUN CONFISCATION?
> By Doug Newman
> August 25, 2007
>
What a load of nonsense. Some people have too much time on their hands
and too little brains to deal with that time.
Patriot Games
news:1188301596.6...@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
On Aug 28, 7:30 am, "Patriot Games" <Patr...@America.com> wrote:
> http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/comply.html
> SHOULD CHRISTIANS COMPLY WITH GUN CONFISCATION?
> By Doug Newman
> August 25, 2007
>and too little brains to deal with that time.
Does that mean you WILL or WILL NOT comply with the confiscation
requirements in the current Assault Weapon Ban?