Expressions Of The Crusade Approach

War: a Primer for Christians Expressions of Crusade Approach include conflict between the forces of good and evil. In the Holy Bible it talks about Deborah the prophetess in Judges Chapters 4-5, was ordered by God to slay all the people in the land of Canaan. Victory was hers as the judge of Israel and happiness was expressed in songs of enemies perishing. The victory in which the children of Israel had been given, seemed to have created in them no sorrow for the enemy/Canaanites at all. The Convictions and logic of the Crusade approach would “See a justifiable war as a conflict between forces of good and the forces of evil” (Allen, 1991). The way a Crusader views these powers of good and evil is that God would be on the side of the Crusaders
Pacifists viewed it like this “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute” (Matt. 5:44, ESV). For the pacifist Agape love is one of loving an enemy, not only oneself. One thing about this kind of love is that it seeks well of others rather than looking for evil in others. A pacifist would not seek revenge or seek to fight evil with evil. The pacifist would be a person who would give up their life for someone else. The pacifist looks back to Exodus (20:13, RSV), where it commands a person, “You shall not kill”. Killing all is not what a pacifist believes in. There is also another perspective as to how pacifists look at life. This comes from scripture as well, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore” (Isa. 2:4, ESV), Then after 312 CE the pacifist’s views changed because of the end of Roman persecution of Christians. They didn’t like it when criminals would sin, or someone threatened Western civilization. They see it at times to excuse going to war in some situations. It is also noticed that pacifism is halted at this time in history as well in the Christian people. It is also recorded that the logical convictions with-in a pacifist is that they actually believe it is always wrong to go
I hold true to my convictions about my moral obligation to serving others before myself. I realize that there are sacrifices that a Christian must make during war times as a pacifist, but a Christian is to express love and “love does not seek its own good but the good of the neighbor” (I Cor. 10:24, ESV). Pacifist Christian is to sacrifice their own life if necessary for someone