For everyone who wants to be a pacifist, beatnik, long haired hippie flower child, I suggest a long conversation with your wife (and children, if you have them). It can begin this way. “Dear, you know that I love you, and we lock our doors at night because I don’t want anything to happen to you. But that’s as far as I’m willing to go to protect or defend you. If someone invades our home, I’m willing to let him rape or even torture you, kill our children, and burn down our house, because I think that’s what Jesus wants us to do. We care more about the criminals than we do our own safety. I hope you understand. Oh, by the way, just to make sure you understand, I feel the same way about defense of you and the children in restaurants, school, and at church as well.”

Please write me and let me know how this conversation goes. I want the nitty, gritty details of her reaction.

Men cowering in their bathtub or not having the means to return fire is a sickness on their soul, the cure for which is Christ Jesus. If a man refuses to go armed he admits to a Holy God and all of mankind that he is unfit for his duties in a fallen world. He is a stunted child that is unequal to the task of manhood. Additionally, he doesn’t love his family. A man, any man, will fight to the death to protect that which he loves. This is God’s natural order that they deny and therefore, they deny God himself.

With Fred, I believe that any man who won’t defend his family is an ungodly coward. Using Jesus as an excuse for his cowardliness is insulting to the Gospel.

Jesus came to die for the sins of His people as a vicarious atonement. He had to drink the cup that was before Him. Your death, or the deaths of your family members, won’t be a vicarious atonement for anything or anyone. That’s why Jesus told His disciples to buy swords.

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