Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: vm0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Paul Mulhern) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Tools of the Antichrist (was `Sola Scriptura') Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 07:32:31 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >This idea that christians are called to be warrior defenders of the faith >is demonicand can only lead to the proverbial hell. No, it's not demonic. But attacking the wrong 'enemy' is no good. "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12) We don't just "reason" and "search the Scriptures" (both are good), but we DO fight, as well. But we often miss the target. We should not fight other people (to further Jesus and the gospel...I'm not addressing war and its morality). We fight the devil and his minions. If we don't, we're in for a rough ride. Denying that there is a REAL enemy and a REAL fight is ignorance, and satan loves it. -Vince Mulhern