Day: July 6, 2019

Christianity has had a long history of promoting peace over force and violence. The reason starts with Jesus himself, who instructed Peter to put away the sword. The book Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service discusses the Early Christians’ arguments for not participating in war. Early Christians believed that they already had a King, and their citizenship was in that future Kingdom. They were merely sojourners, immigrants, and aliens in the land of the Roman Empire. Therefore, they did not fight for Caesar, since Jesus was their King. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in Early Christianity.

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