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   From: PF@Christfirst.com   
      
   "Carl Rooker"  wrote in message   
   news:1094934513.474511@w9.dnx.net...   
   >   
   > Is it really against the Word of God for the government to punish and   
   > destroy those who murder the innocent in such a cowardly fashion as the   
   > terrorists do?   
   > RO 13:1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for   
   there   
   > is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities   
   that   
   > exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, he who rebels against   
   > the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who   
   do   
   > so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for   
   those   
   > who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear   
   > of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4   
   > For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid,   
   for   
   > he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of   
   > wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary   
   to   
   > submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but   
   also   
   > because of conscience.  NIV   
   > So, in the incidence of Terrorism, the US government (being the one taking   
   > the lead role against such murderers) is God's servant as an agent of   
   wrath   
   > to bring   
   > punishment on the wrongdoers.   
   > If President Bush has actually stepped over these bounds, he will have to   
   > answer to God for it.  Until then, he is doing his God-mandated job.   
   >   
       You can do the talking alright, but can you do the walking? How much   
   abuse and butality are you willing to endure, before you become a suicide   
   bomber? Would you take a Palestinian's place whose children are permanently   
   interned by the Jews in vast Gulags in the Sinai, whose land has been   
   confiscated without compensation, and whose refugee shanty was just   
   bulldozed by the Israelis, and who is being told that he should count   
   himself lucky for being still alive, for YHWH did command the Jews to "kill   
   all that breatheth" (Deuteronomy 20:16-17) in order to "occupy the land" and   
   "reap where they have not sown".   
       Did you know, that Christians will be judged and treated precisely as   
   they judge and treat others?   
       Bush is great at humiliating and beating the Islamic horse, but he   
   appears totally incompetent when it comes to removing the obvious burr under   
   its saddle. See below the most important of Christ's commandments, which are   
   the standards by which we will be judged.   
      
   Pastor Frank   
      
           THE ROYAL LAW OF CHRIST   
   **Jesus in Mk 12:30: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy   
   heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy   
   strength: this is the first commandment.   
   **31: And the second is alike, namely this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour   
   as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.   
   **Jesus in Mat 22:40 "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two   
   commandments."   
      
           THE GOLDEN RULE OF CHRIST   
       Jesus in Matt. 7:12: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men   
   should do to you, do ye even so to them...."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)