6/26/26 MAKE YOUR INFORMATION CERTAIN
Though God gave the sword of steel (Government authority to protect the law-abiding and punish the wicked), He does not send His people (Christians, The Church) to violently engage the enemies of the Kingdom of God.
NO CHRISTIAN BODY OF BELIEVERS (FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST) has ever waged war or violently attacked anyone or any group of people. The CRUSADES, The INQUISITION, The WITCH HUNTS, and any other movement of violence or blood-letting that has been done in the name of Christ was a misrepresentation of Christ and His people. Other religions use violence to promote and protect their belief systems and way of life, but Christians are committed to the words of Christ and the teachings of the New Testament.
Whenever anyone tells you that Christians have used physical force, violence, or military tactics against anyone or any group, they are wrong, and they are promoting a demonic lie.
The Bible gives the responsibility of using physical power to enforce and maintain civil order and national security to the State. Christians accept God's appointment of the State to wield the sword of steel. Christians are given the responsibility to wield the Sword of the Spirit (the Holy Bible).
The Church and Biblical Christianity is nothing like Islam or any other blood-letting religion. Christians accept, support and yield to legitimate State authority, but there are some areas of the Christian faith and life that are contrary to the rule of the State. In those cases, a Christian must obey God rather than men.
The Roman Catholic religion and some of the Reformation groups (including Lutherans) took up arms against each other and against Islam and even against Jews. Those actions were contrary to the New Testament and are not related to God's directives to His people.
