THESIS 80: VENGEANCE

Christians are not to execute vengeance.[277] They are to leave vengeance to the Lord.[278] The Lord uses the State, criminals, terrorists, and other evil-doers to execute (unwittingly) His vengeance.[279]

Exposition

A Biblical Defense of Pacifism

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

277. Proverbs 20:22; 24:29; Matthew 5:38-48; 1 Corinthians 6:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9; Revelation 13:10; #78

278. Romans 12:17-21; Deuteronomy 32:35

279. Romans 13:1,4; Isaiah 10:5-14; 13:1-5; #41

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