Opinion:Should there be a cease-fire?

[nebula]

If the UN had any backbone at all ...

That's about the size of it.

The UN is as invertebrate as they get.

[Guest power mousey]

our Lord God will instill His judgement, order and peace.

And His cease and desist.

And within His plans, purposes and timing.

Ezekiel 37 to 39.

serious,

power mousey

[RustyAngeL]

Civilians are being killed because hizbula(sp)is using them as shields.

They are setting up their offensive in residential areas thinking that Isreal won't bomb there.

They were wrong.

Civilian casualties are a fact of war.

Maybe the civilians will get sick of it and kick the hizbolas out.

As far as the second question goes....

The initial attack ON Isreal was religiously motivated. They do not think Isreal has a right to even exist.

They HATE the Jews.

Isreals retaliation was an act of self survival, neither political nor religious.

My opinions are religiously based.

Based on human rights biblically stated.

No cease fire is my vote!

[Guest shiloh357]

No ceasefire. The minute you give up or quit, the terrorists see you as weak. No cease fire until the job is finished.

[Guest willing servant]

genesis 9:6

whoever sheds the blood of man

by man shall his blood be shed

for in the image of god

has god made man

.............. I dont know about you guys but i couldn't shoot at god..........

[JustinM]

Jesus was the most peaceful person in the world and it didn't stop an evil mob from torturing and crucifying Him. Passivism does not work, in fact all it does is empower evil people, because like one of our recent posters said, they take it as a sign of weakness, not compassion.

Jesus was passive, because it was what He was supposed to be. I guarantee that Jesus will not be so "weak" (according to the wicked) the next time He comes here.

Our society is becoming more and more unraveled everyday. Liberals foolishly believe we are progressing into a more civil society. But, really, how can a society that has murdered over 40 million babies alone, and that embraces hedonistic, atheistic lifestyles claim to be civil? If it is ok to have sex with whatever we want, whenever we want, then how does that make us different from the monkeys in the jungle? When we embrace the laws of the jungle, (only strong survive) by practicing euthanasia, how does that make us different from the jackals preying on the weak gazelles? I didn't want to use lions as an example, because symbolically lions are considered honorable, powerful, respectful beasts.

I got off the subject, but I hope my post is in the context of it.

My point is that whenever we show any kind of mercy or compassion to merciless people, they do not respect us more. They laugh at us, see us as weak and plan their next moves to kill us. A cease-fire has never worked in the middle-east and it never will. The only thing that works is absolution. Absolute victory or absolute defeat. When will we learn to stop believing their promises (treaties)? I think, never. I believe Christ will return before any form of long lasting peace can exist in the middle-east

[forrestkc]

I have to disagree. The life of Jesus Christ is the greatest example of non-violence in the history of civilization. Jesus could have raised huge armies to battle evil and injustice. Yet he did not. I certainly cannot see how anyone could read the Gospels and take from them than Jesus would support a war. My brother and I were just talking about this the other day. We were talking about how remarkable it is that some of the most devout Christians that we know are the first to say things like we should Nuke Iran. Would Jesus Christ use nuclear weapons? Of course not. Then again, as my brother pointed out, he would not build them either.

The world is not black and white, and its a mistake to assume that it is.

As to progressing as a society, in some ways we are, and in some ways we are not. On one hand, we are becoming a more materialistic society and sex sells like nothing else anymore. However, on balance, we used to see nothing wrong at all with owning men as property and horsewhipping slaves, beating our wives, poisening and exploiting the land, child labor, poverty rates where people at times litteraly starved to death, or slaugthering hundreds of thousands of indians. We have never truely been a moral society, but on balance, in many ways we probably are better than we used to be.

Edited September 21, 2006 by forrestkc

[nebula]

genesis 9:6

whoever sheds the blood of man

by man shall his blood be shed

for in the image of god

has god made man

.............. I dont know about you guys but i couldn't shoot at god..........

Err . . . taken to its logical conclusion, you are calling man "god."

I have a hard time accepting this is what the Lord God meant by this.

[amor]

genesis 9:6

whoever sheds the blood of man

by man shall his blood be shed

for in the image of god

has god made man

.............. I dont know about you guys but i couldn't shoot at god..........

Err . . . taken to its logical conclusion, you are calling man "god."

I have a hard time accepting this is what the Lord God meant by this.

no it means that man is made in the image of God so in attacking someone you are attacking an image of God. It means you must have the upmost respect for other people, whoever they may be. Not always something I'm particularly good at.

[ted]

I have to disagree. The life of Jesus Christ is the greatest example of non-violence in the history of civilization. Jesus could have raised huge armies to battle evil and injustice. Yet he did not. I certainly cannot see how anyone could read the Gospels and take from them than Jesus would support a war. My brother and I were just talking about this the other day. We were talking about how remarkable it is that some of the most devout Christians that we know are the first to say things like we should Nuke Iran. Would Jesus Christ use nuclear weapons? Of course not. Then again, as my brother pointed out, he would not build them either.

And what will you say about His return?

It's not going to be a pretty sight on earth, and Jesus will lead the slaughter.

Still, though, I can picture many people protesting His violent return.

I certainly cannot see how anyone could read the Gospels and take from them than Jesus would support a war.

Interesting.....

Matthew 24 gives us a glimpse of what the return of Jesus will be like. Not very pretty, is it?

And that comes straight out of the GOSPEL of Matthew. There are plenty of places within the entire Bible which describe the return of Jesus, and that return will bring justice by His sword.

Saying that Jesus did not advocate war while He was on earth is only a partial reality. Yes, Jesus did not fight in any wars while He walked on earth, but what of His return? Will there be violence? Yes, I dare say like none ever seen, according to His word.

Only giving half of the answer isn't being 100% honest.

Regardless, our time until His return is to be for the spreading of the Word, that much is true.

t.