,
observes,"What Constitutes a Just Robbery?"
What Constitutes a Just Rape?
After Christ's death on the Cross, no war is just. No war that the United States has engaged in for the last 250 years has been justified.
http://MemorialDay.VFT Peace Project.com
This webpage is sponsored by a non-profit tax-exempt organization called "Vine & Fig Tree." Our name is taken from the Old Testament prophet Micah, who told us of God's will that we "beat swords into plowshares" so that everyone could dwell safely under his vine and fig tree. You can read the complete prophecy and get a summary of all our websites here:
The author of this webpage was personally tutored by R.J. Rushdoony and Greg Bahnsen. He passed the California Bar Exam, but was denied a license to practice law because America is now officially an atheistic nation, and Christians who are committed to following Christ's Sermon on the Mount have been held to be ineligible to become attorneys. This ridiculous-sounding claim is documented here:
A deposition from that case, explaining how the author became a pacifist, is here:
http://vftonline.org/TestOath/pacifist.htm
The verses quoted in that deposition constitute a "prima facie case" for
pacifism. An anthropologist from Mars, here to study the human race, specializing in the
teachings and influence of Jesus Christ, would see immediately that Christ and the Bible
advocate pacifism. Christ did not defend Himself against attack, and we are to follow
"in His steps" (1
Peter 2:18-24). "Thou shalt not kill" and "love your enemies" are
clear commands. Elizabeth Flower, of the University of Pennsylvania, writing in The
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The perplexing issue is why such straightforward and unambiguous teaching came to be ignored, or at least taken as a "counsel of perfection" impossible of realization in this world. In any case, . . . Christians began to accommodate to the social realities of civil government, military service, taxation, etc.; and then to develop their own political power. Yet the literal directives of the Sermon [on the Mount] were time-resistant and Christian pacifism has not lacked for bold and uncompromising advocates in such early Church Fathers as Clement, Justin, and above all Origen, in sects such as the Quakers, Schwenkenfelders, and Doukhobors, and in such modern proponents as Leo Tolstoy, Jacques Maritain, and A.J. Muste. . . . Yet historical Christianity generally compromised its pacifist commitments.
"Just War Theory" is one such accommodation to "social realities." It is an attempt to escape the clear teaching of Christ and the Scripture.
We are currently creating a comprehensive examination of "Just War Theory," but until that resource is complete, please consider the following:
We oppose the "Just War Theory" on Calvinistic and Reconstructionist grounds, not from the perspective of "sects such as the Quakers, Schwenkenfelders, and Doukhobors."
Arguments about "Just War Theory" only scratch the surface of some of the bigger issues we face in the quest for peace. Much of the "Just War Theory" depends on an unBiblical interpretation of Romans 13. We have examined this doctrinal pantheon here:
The errors found in most teaching about Romans 13 come from a misunderstanding of "the sword" and the function of what we call "capital punishment" in the Old Testament. We have examined these errors here:
http://GodandtheDeathPenalty.com