Christian Nonresistance
We Don't Beat People Up, We Get Beat Up
This section is under construction, as is the entire website, but we will be steadily adding material to the list of articles below.
Will You Kill or Be Killed? - By Dan Wiesner.
Also available in printable version (.pdf)
Is Christianity really a violent religion? Is Islam really a peaceful
religion? A very provocative article on the often-neglected New Testament
command to abstain from violence and war and revenge, but rather to love our
enemies and pray for those who persecute us, fleeing from persecution if
possible, but never fighting back or returning evil for evil.
Thou Shalt Not Kill - An article documenting many verses pertaining to nonresistance.
Wage the Good Warfare - So if Christians are to be nonviolent, then are we just supposed to be passive wimps and pushovers in regard to righteousness? Absolutely not! We are soldiers in Christ's army, soldiers in a very real war, but we do not wage carnal war as the world does...
What the Earliest Christians Taught About War and Violence - By our brothers in Deer Park, Washington.
Off-site Articles
Pacifist, Patriot or Pilgrim - By Jack D. Hook, Vietnam veteran, BabylonTheGreatIsFalling.Net
Beit Shalom Ministries - Brothers Elliot Nesch and Raymond Schwab are marching from Denver to Washington D.C. to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom and protest the evangelical church's support of the war in Iraq.
Recommended Resources
- The Kingdom That Turned The World Upside Down by David Bercot
- Will The Real Heretics Please Stand Up by David Bercot
- What the Early Christians Believed About War by David Bercot (audio teaching)
- Dust of Death by Os Guinness
- Do Followers of Jesus Fight? by Edward Yoder
- Christian Non-resistance by Adin Ballou
- The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy