“We who formerly killed one another not only do not fight our enemies, but willingly die while confessing Christ
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“when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son
“The new creation bestowed upon us by the risen Lord allows no room for hatred and enmity, only love, love without limits, compassion and understanding. By this shall all know that we are true disciples of the risen one: if we have love for one another and for all people. We must always proclaim peace and brotherhood among peoples and nations, not war, even if we baptize it as ‘holy’ to please an authoritarian secular power. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a ‘holy war’! Holiness and war are, by their very nature, mutually incompatible concepts incapable of coexisting in any form!
“they overcame hatred, revenge and malice through the merciful love of Christ
“Until now I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to serve God... I am a soldier of Christ, I am not permitted to fight.
“The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His own love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US
“greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends
“For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life