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A wise man once said,? The first to plead his case seems right until his neighbor comes and examines him.? The Solomon was wise and phrase is from the book of Proverbs, a book respected as the Word of God by Christians and Jews. As an evangelical Christian born and raised in the charismatic movement, I grew up hearing only one side of the Israeli-Palestinian history mainly on the Israeli side. I always thought that God gave the land to the Jews and the Palestinians if Don? T like it, well, they can sit on a board, because everyone knows that the Palestinians are the devil. ? unday school songs aside, what? s happening in the Gaza Strip is serious. That? Is why we need an adult response Christian. Unfortunately, that? S exactly what? S lacking in this crucial hour.
So here goes.
I think Israel has the right to exist within secure borders and secure. I also believe that Israel has the right to defend itself. I understand the sentiment of President-elect Obama when he said that if the rockets were fired at his house while her two daughters were asleep, he will do everything he could to avoid it. I think Hamas is a terrorist organization advocating an evil ideology opposed to freedom and progress. I despise the fact that they persecute my brothers and sisters in Christ living under the thumb and course of firing rockets indiscriminately at civilians is never justified. Period.
Thus, Israel is justified in its aggressive approach towards the citizens of Gaza? Judging from the breath fire on both sides of the debate, I don? see consensus on it coming anytime soon. As for my fellow Christians, we can discuss the topic until Jesus returns and the debate will largely missed its target. Sure Israel in May? May or not? Be justified in their campaign of aerial bombardment and subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip, but this should not alone? T determine the appropriate Christian response. Why? Because Christians are called to live by a higher than what? S only justifiable.
Jesus would have been quite justified in killing the bloodthirsty Romans of his day. Crimes the Romans were committed against the Jews were just as bad if not worse, that the Palestinians are committing crimes against the Jews of today. But when Jesus hung on the cross, He showed the world that there? The right upper SA in God? s moral universe as the Justice Gross. And this law is mercy. When it is between the result of the redemptive love of suffering and the cross enemy crushing way of the sword, the Christians are supposed choose the cross? at least that? s what Christians used to believe.
No I don? T think that the followers of Jesus would be prudent to impose New Testament standards, on non-Christians, but what I find particularly strange is that when Palestinian Muslims to embrace Christianity (as the case Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas leader who recently made his public testimony), we expect them to adopt a new attitude toward their former enemy of Israel. We expect to love, bless, do good and pray for their enemies? as Jesus says to do. But when an Israeli Jew embrace Jesus as Messiah, most of my Christian friends do not expect them to be less militant toward their Palestinian neighbors, but more activist. We expect them to fight for their land and freedom, even if it means that the houses were demolished across the land confiscated, Palestinians involved in non-violent protests are being tortured, imprisoned or killed (it happens all the time in the West Bank by the way) and, as in the case of Gaza, women and children are deprived of food and medicine for years.
My Christian friends say that the problems Middle East would be solved instantly if all the Jews and Palestinians would only confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. No disrespect to people other faiths, as a Bible believing Christian, I? M obliged to accept. But here is where the argument falls apart when poor people use. Some of the same people who use this argument are also bombarding the White House e-mails asking our Secretary of State to allow Israel to fight. They never seem to ask themselves the question of who would Jesus bomb? What a shame that is! Indeed, how can we as Christians say the world would be a better place if everyone became one of us when we? Re applaud when the bombs fly?
About the Author:
Aaron D. Taylor is the founder of Great Commission Society (http://www.greatcommissionsociety.com ) and the author of
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Who Would Jesus Bomb? a Serious Response to the Crisis in Gaza
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