Actually, instead of owning a gun to “defend against a baddie”, you should welcome anyone who holds a gun to your head, because they’re about to bring you to God.
Actually, instead of owning a gun to “defend against a baddie”, you should welcome anyone who holds a gun to your head, because they’re about to bring you to God.
The Bible tends to contradict itself time and time again, so you can use it to justify just about any interpretation. In Luke 22:36, Jesus tells his disciples, “If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.” We can probably agree that if Jesus lived in the 21st century, it wouldn’t be a sword he’d tell them to buy.
He tells them all to sell their cloaks to buy swords, and the line after that they say they’ve already got two swords between the lot of them, and jesus says yeah actually that’s enough. Then two or three lines later when they attempt to actually use their swords to defend jesus from arrest he rebukes them. As a justification for use of violent force it’s pretty flimsy.