THE BIBLE'S VIEWPOINT/WAR - Does God take sides in war today?

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS a

Christians are not authorized to fight against their enemies.  The apostle Paul wrote to fellow Christians: "If possible, as far as it depends on you, be peaceable with all men.  Do not avenge yourselves." -Romans 12:18, 19. 

Instead 0f sending his followers to war, Jesus told them:  "Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you, so that you may prove yourselves sons of your Father who is in the heavens." (Matthew 5:44, 45)  Even when the nation in which they live goes to war, Christians should remain nuetral, "no part of the world."  (John 15:19) If God wants his worshippers in all nations to love their enemies and to remain separate from the world, how could he support either side of a violent  conflict today?

"My Kingdom is no part of this world.  If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this source." -John 18:36. 

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