The Reformer

What should the Christian position be on war? In recent years I have been wrestling with my position on war, and I've come to the conclusion that the default Christian position should be antiwar. It appears to me the question of Christians supporting wars is not debated enough in the Church. This is a serious problem as endorsement of war has catastrophic impacts on Christian households and societies. Wars kill off thousands of our fathers and sons, which destroys years of generational kingdom work. War death counts: 650,000 - Civil war 115,745 - WW1 397,631 - WW2 33,441 - Korean war 47,907 - Vietnam 7,054 - Afghanistan & Iraq In these wars not only are soldiers killed, but millions of civilians. After each war the alpha men are killed off, then societies are led mostly by cowardly betas. The aftermath is catastrophic on Christian societies. It's like a reset button is pushed where hundreds of years of Kingdom building is instantly deleted. Families endure enormous setbacks and suffering that takes generations to recover from to return to pre war conditions. One way to frame the governmental attacks on Christ's Kingdom could be as follows: Problem 1 (slow death of Christianity): Destroy Christian society with antichrist laws, institutions and culture. Problem 2 (fast reset button): Destroy Christian society & families by killing off the strongest men every 30ish years, thus destabilizing Christian households which are the foundation of society. If you look at the Iraq war for example, we lost 4,550 men, 32,000 injured or permanent disability, 480,000 suffering from TBIs, PTSD, and other conditions. Trillions of debt. Christians in Iraq pre war was 1.2 mil, now it is 150k. 500k to 1 mil civilian casualties. And Iraq is just as destabilized as it was prior to the war. Netanyahu's pre Iraq war prediction before congress that "it would send enormous positive reverberations throughout the middle east" was inaccurate. So we lose the following after these wars: 1. Alpha men (the bulwark of Christian civilization) 2. Family stability (broken households) 3. Financial stability (trillions of debt) 4. Christian presence in the war locations. My take is the Church has only focused on problem 1 (and poorly), while nearly completely ignoring and/or endorsing problem 2. -Problem 2 is reframed in the Christian mind as a "virtue of patriotism". And sadly most unwittingly support all these wars to the Kingdoms detriment. -Problem 2, is a result of a complete lack of sound biblical teaching on the topic, and the complete lack of visibility of the results of these wars. Mass deception. It's the promotion of winning by the sword instead of the Gospel. -Problem 2 accelerates problem 1 after the war. Consider WW2, every dominant Christian nation became significantly more socialist and anti-Christian. Europe is nearly unrecognizable today, very anti-Christian. The proper biblical take on war is that it is an absolute last resort, mainly in the defense of your own people which are under direct imminent threat of loss of life. I don't believe any war listed above would be a valid biblical war by America. Aid to help Christians and innocent people is acceptable as should have been the case of the recent genocide against Christian Armenians (which we neglected to do). Christians should be peacemakers, and advocates for the weak and vulnerable. War is an absolute last resort. Considerations to justify war: 1. Is there an immediate threat to our people? 2. Is there an immediate threat to Christians or innocent people? 3. What is the cost of the war and does the cost of war justify eliminating the threat? In other words the harm caused by war must not outweigh the good achieved. The anticipated benefits must justify the costs. 4. Have all possible avenues been explored and executed to avoid the war? 5. Will the war advance Christ's Kingdom or will it regress His Kingdom? I'm still working out this antiwar thesis, but these are my rough thoughts so far.

@DrewHLive “Excellent technique and power” 😂

This video is the very definition of delusional feminist empowerment

@yonann Or just pressure wash to pay your bills while you learn to use AI in your spare time to make more money.

Dave Ramsey says a $600 pressure washing job can be the first step to making 150K a year "You don’t want to be 63 years old still pressure washing. But to get through this week, you can do a lot of pressure washing" "Use the pressure washing money to pay $10,000 for code school, then go make 150K a year coding, every move should be a step toward where you want to be in 10 years"

@Villgecrazylady I cant believe anyone would tune in to their podcast at this point. Clearly Charlie had not made good disciples of these guys or picked the wrong guys to join his team.

“…I understand COVID that was a whole like op, I get it…” These effeminate freaks will look you straight in the eye and tell you that our government conspired to lock Americans in their homes in order to destroy small businesses while simultaneously murdering people by denying them effective early treatment and THEN allowed Big Pharma to conduct medical experiments on the entire population with gene therapy mystery shots… But if you think that maybe that same government or the dark shadowy forces that control it might stage— and even carry out—assassination plots in order to seize more power and steer public opinion… well you just need to log off the internet because your brain is too cooked. Sure thing boys 👍🏻

@nickyruddx @bennyjohnson Seems the pattern for con inc types to this question is first display a strong criticism where they agree, then soften, avoid or play ignorant to Israels negative influence over our government.

My question to Benny Johnson: Do you believe the Israel lobby compelled the Trump administration into attacking Iran?

@VivekGRamaswamy The reason for the extra focus on aid to Israel as opposed to the other waste is that our money was financing the murder of innocent people in Gaza. Thus that makes it particularly offensive.

Yes, I got the (now boringly standard) question about U.S. aid to Israel. Here’s what I said.

@RealSpikeCohen Those people should have been wearing hazmat suits.

Around this time 6 years ago, people were leaving their homes to shame you for leaving your homes.

@Melissa_WongMT The wall is a Roman fortress wall, had nothing to do with the temple which was located in the south.

The "wailing wall" means NOTHING to Christians

@DanBilzerian Someone needs to create a anti Christ influencer list.

The government of Israel listed me as the #1 Antisemitic influencer in the world. We are so fucking back!

@buckleycarlson @KimDotcom Until repentance happens America will continue to decline.

Lock Lutnick in a closet. Address the nation live, release JFK/USS Liberty/911/Butler/Charlie/Epstein files in full. Arrest infiltrators, expel all dual citizens from government, all illegals from the country. Abolish the IRS, FBI, CIA (confiscate all the latter's black money, disburse to citizens). Apologize, Repent, accept Jesus. Breathe easy as an unburdened courageous man who has met his responsibility. @KimDotcom

Asking for a friend. How can Trump turn things around?

@ggreenwald @barnes_law @TheBabylonBibi The babylon bibi has become my most trusted news source!

Now that "The Babylon Bee" is a full-time Israel propaganda outlet attacking anyone critical of their sacred foreign government, @TheBabylonBibi has stepped in to do actually funny political and inventive satire.

@OwenShroyer1776 Dan should have asked for the definition of antisemitism.

This was hilarious.

@AwakenWithJP JP, and to say otherwise is committing an antisemitism!

I guess that's what God wants if Israel is doing it?

@thematrixb0t More accurately they are not able to program the youth due to social media and independent journalism.

Mike Huckabee’s explanation for why young Americans hate Israel: “We simply haven’t programmed the youth correctly.”

@DschlopesIsBack Next one should be 10 v 1.

Is it bad that I’ve watched this 50 times now? 😂

@shaunking Same playbook as BLM. Interesting

Watch ALL of this. Right now.

This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war, killing hundreds of thousands and creating another massive Muslim refugee crisis. Topping a leader is NEVER as easy you think. It almost always results in further involvement, a civil war, and chaos. Resist this!

@megynkelly Ben is a “friend guy”, but his friends are Zionists who do not depart from the zionist talking points he believes are important.

You think protecting Erika means calling out Candace; I think if you don’t wish to call attention to a negative attack, don’t call attention to it. Does that work for you Ben? May I have your approval now? No, I don’t think so. Bc you and your little cohort of sick followers aren’t mad about anything involving me and Erika Kirk, who you barely know (trust me; I’ve checked). You turned on me when I wouldn’t de-friend Tucker whose criticism of Israel you can’t stand - and when I defended Candace’s questions about whether Charlie, before he was killed, was growing more skeptical of Israel (HE WAS). You’re right that, at Erika’s request, I tried to help her and Candace get to an okay place - an effort that failed and which now you mock - but Christians like me are pretty big on forgiveness and reconciliation. I tried to help you and Tucker get there too, remember? More of my “cowardice” I guess. One final point: you handled your anger toward me in the most despicable way possible. Did you call me? Text me? Raise it with me privately after all we had been thru together over the years? No, you attacked me on stage at the Turning Point event without so much as a heads-up. Bc you were too chicken shit to say it to my face. I texted you afterward and you never responded. You didn’t have the balls to have a face-to-face talk or even a text or call about it. You are the coward, Ben. And your moral preening, priggish lectures and holier-than-thou judgments are the reason you are losing fans and, more than that, friends, at a record rate. You always told me you were a “family guy” not a “friend guy.” I learned the hard way you really meant it.

@MillerStream That's Christian Zionism worship music.

this is not ai… trumps israeli ambassador mike huckabee’s band performing “sweet home yerushalayim”

@GovMikeHuckabee The hope of Israel by Philip Mauro is one of the best and clearest take downs of the false theology of dispensationalism. preteristcentral.com/pdf/pdf%20book…

In response to the statement of non-evangelical churches in Israel, I issued the following. I hope you will read prayerfully. I love my brothers and sisters in Christ from traditional, liturgical churches and respect their views, but I do not feel any sect of the Christian faith should claim exclusivity in speaking for Christians worldwide or assume there is only one viewpoint regarding faith in the Holy Land.  Personally I’m part of a global and growing evangelical tradition that believes the authority of Scripture and the faithfulness of God in keeping His covenants.  That includes His covenant with Abraham and the Jewish people.  My Christian faith is built on the foundation of Judaism and without it, Christianity would not exist.  Without the Judeo-Christian worldview, there would be no Western Civilization, and without Western Civilization, there would be no America.  The thought that God is even capable of breaking a covenant is anathema to those of us who embrace Holy Scripture as the authority of the church.  If God can or would break His covenant with the Jews, then what hope would Christians have that He would keep His covenant with us? Labels such as “Christian Zionism” are too often used in a pejorative manner to disparage free-church believers, of which there are millions across the planet.  Christians are followers of Christ and a Zionist simply accepts that the Jewish people have a right to live in their ancient, indigenous, and Biblical homeland.  It’s hard for me to understand why every one who takes on the moniker “Christian” would not also be a Zionist.  It’s not a commitment to a particular government or government policy, but to the Biblical revelation as given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  In my faith, there is certainly room for those who “butter their bread” differently than me, and I would hope that there would be room in the hearts of other church bodies for me.  We need to unite in those truths that should be agreed upon, such as the sanctity of life, the sacred act of marriage, the autonomy of the individual, the desire to lift up every human and alleviate human suffering, and the belief that grace is God’s gift to us all. Please share with others and "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!"

There are several problems with your theology: 1. The Christian faith is built upon Christ, not Judaism. Christ is the author of the OT faith. The Jewish people did not create the faith. 2. America was founded on Christian values. Judeo values contradict Christian values. 3. God does not break covenant, the Jewish people who reject Christ broke covenant. Gods covenants are conditional. 4. Jews who reject Christ have no land rights, as they are not members or heirs of the Abrahamic covenant. The NT is crystal clear that believers in Christ are the exclusive heirs of the Abrahamic covenant. If you’re not “in Christ,” you’re not “of Abraham” (Jn. 8:39; Rom. 9:7). If you’re not “of Abraham,” you’re not an heir to the promise (Gal. 3:16, 29). "It is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham." (Gal. 3:7)