/christianity/ - Christian Theology & Philosophy★

should low effort threads be made?

No, commie

Every Christian should own a gun

If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

-Jesus Christ (of nasrath)

>>11024 (OP)

>Should we, as Christians, support banning guns?

Why? If you want to ask a question like that, you need to give some sort of reasoning for it.

>These mass shootings are getting out of hand.

In whose judgement, yours or the Lord's? The Lord never expressed displeasure at His people defending themselves against invaders before, why would he be upset about it now?

>>11024 (OP)

Go away Francis, nobody likes you.

>>11058

Frank the Hippie Pope Bans All Weapons

If you control the ammunition you control the weapon.

A gun without bullets cannot shoot anyone. So see to it that EVERY

bullet has a micro-ID, on both bullet and cartridge, and see to it

that there is a clear chain of custody that traces it's path through society.

This will limit sales to (hopefully), only the right people.

Ban informal sales of ammunition. Have a central registry logging ALL

sales of ammunition. And have this registry be cross referenced with

databases for known gang members, white supremicist and other

terrorist organizations and your more run-of-the-mill psychos.

Would this prevent all bad things from happening? Unfortunately no.

Nothing is foolproof or perfect. But bullets decay over time so the

supply that exists Right Now is limited and falling.

And if sad and angry young men can't get the ammo they need because

they are so obviously sad and angry that no one will sell to them then that's lives saved.

He can still swing an ax but you won't be reading in your local paper the next day about twenty people being killed.

Control the ammunition and you control the weapon.

>>11024 (OP)

No southern baptist would say such a thing, unless he's playing devil's advocate. I'm watching you.

"Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter." (Prov. 24:11 ESV)

[After Rehoboam increases the taxes inflicted on the Israelites…] "So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

20 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.

21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:

23 "Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,

24 'Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD and went home again, according to the word of the LORD." (1 Ki. 12:19-24 ESV)

"The word of the LORD came to me:

2 'Son of man, speak to byour people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their dwatchman,

3 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and ablows the trumpet and warns the people,

4 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.

6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, athat person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand." (Ezek. 33:1-6 ESV)

The answer is no, otherwise you cannot faithfully defend people from evil.

>>11034

This

>>11034

[continuation of the quotation]

>For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’

He instructed them to buy swords, not to use them (not even for self-defense), but so that they might be mistaken for evil-doers.

[speaking of the same sword]

>Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword."

I own two guns, but this is not a pro-gun argument.