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THESIS 80: VENGEANCE
Christians are not to execute vengeance.[277] They are to leave vengeance to the Lord.[278] The Lord uses the State, criminals, terrorists, and other evil-doers to execute (unwittingly) His vengeance.[279]
Exposition
A Biblical Defense of Pacifism
- Implications
- What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the
world.
- Clarifications
- What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World
distorted the truth.
- Confirmations
- How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this
Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)
- Deliberations
- Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats
- -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.
Prooftexts
277
. Proverbs 20:22; 24:29; Matthew 5:38-48; 1 Corinthians 6:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9; Revelation 13:10; #78278. Romans 12:17-21; Deuteronomy 32:35
279. Romans 13:1,4; Isaiah 10:5-14; 13:1-5; #41
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