Re: Should a Christian go to war?
Good morning everybody… Wishes for a blessed Sunday,
Our brother in God Kemal’s explanation today made my day, indeed… Thanks God. It is one of the best explanations I have met to this day regarding this issue. It does not perceives the dilemma from a solely humane viewpoint but from a totally different one. A totally non conventional way… a genuinely Christian way. And it is said in a so simple way… in a Christian way, again.
A Christian who lives really by God never constitutes a reason for enmity, hate and violence. He/she consitutes always, by his/her very existence on this earth a seed of peace, communion and unity. This is exactly the reason the people of old times were saying ‘it is the existence of really pious people that keeps the order of the universe’.
I too am a Turk and Greek culturally and an Albanian by blood, Orthodox Christian by family. It happened to me to have a so multicultural social background. I always did see it as a blessing. And, now I am sharing here my experience in Christ, here with my Turkish brothers and sisters. We, Christians may have racial, ethnic or tongue diversity but in essence we consitute a single borderless nation. And the unity of our nation is nurtured and kept in unity by God himself. The common language of this nation is that of Christ’s love. We do not have needs of earthly borders. We are nomads in Spirit. We are the spiritual descendants of the righteous Abel. He was murdered by his brother but he lives in us :-)
Blessings…