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The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
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Jesus the Pacifist: A Concise Guide to His Radical Nonviolence
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Reading Revelation Nonviolently
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Matthew Fleischer
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Jesus the Pacifist: A Concise Guide to His Radical Nonviolence
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Thanks for investing your time in reading the book and writing a gracious review, Jake. I'm hoping my next book fills in some of the logical leaps you
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Matthew Fleischer
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Jesus the Pacifist: A Concise Guide to His Radical Nonviolence:
"I jived with much of the book but it jumped to conclusions that I didn’t think were well supported. The author did a great job analyzing nonviolence in Jesus’ ministry, in Revelation, and in Christian theology. He didn’t spend a lot of time on Old Te"
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“The only violence God sanctioned in the OT was for nationalistic purposes. That’s because nations require violence. To exist, they need criminal laws, warfare policies, and armed men to enforce them. By their nature, they have order to maintain, territory to defend, national sovereignty to preserve, and history to control. But transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, geographically dispersed organizations (like the church) do not.”
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
“The Law of Moses served an indispensable but temporary purpose: to point the way to Jesus. The Law of Jesus, on the other hand, serves an eternal purpose: to teach us how to embody God’s kingdom on earth.”
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
“Occasionally, you may not like to be restricted by such laws, but I bet you’re always glad others are.”
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
“The only violence God sanctioned in the OT was for nationalistic purposes. That’s because nations require violence. To exist, they need criminal laws, warfare policies, and armed men to enforce them. By their nature, they have order to maintain, territory to defend, national sovereignty to preserve, and history to control. But transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, geographically dispersed organizations (like the church) do not.”
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
― The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence
