Do Christians Carry Guns - No

Christ's Message 

Christ gave his life for us and states we must “Love one another. As I have Loved you.”   So we must be willing to lay down our lives for one another and Christ.  This is a powerful message.  We must be of a mindset to give our lives for our fellow man.  So in order to be given Grace an individual must be willing to die for another. not just any other but all others!

Do Christians Carry Guns

Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place." 32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

Clearly God expects us to put our faith in him, and to rely on him in even times of war.  Anyone who does not is denying him.  

Psalm 56:4 “In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?”

Psalm 91:2 “I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."

Psalm 37:3 “Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.” 

1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

John 4:18 “There is no fear in love. …"

By taking up arms a person is effectively saying they do not trust god will protect them.  God considers this as idolatry, because we are putting our faith in weapons, not him. Any man who carries a gun has fear in their heart and not Love, so they are alienated from Christ.  So both God (by idolatry) and Christ (by not loving)  have been alienated, regardless of which Covenant you accept as true (i.e. for Jewish or Gentile).  

So the “Israeli” settlers in Gaza today carry guns.  Do you feel they are doing God’s will or rushing ahead.  Do you think those that force people out of their home by bulldozer are doing God’s will?  Do you think God would use the United States as a tool to defeat Palestine? 

This is not a statement against soldiers who are called to defend their country.  They are not the ones making the decisions.

Our second invasion into Iraq seems questionable as Sadaam Hussein was known for being anti-terrorist.  Additionally his nephew had defected following the first invasion under Bush Sr.  He had apparently been in charge of the programs there for weapons of mass destruction and was said to have stated that he personally shut down all programs before he defected.

Death tolls in Iraq were about 120,000 Iraqis, and about 4,000 US.  One thing you can say is we are effective killing machines, 30 to 1.  What did the world gain from that?

Does this seem to be God’s will?  Or could it be sa case of us not trusting in the Lord and going ahead on our journey.

Ephesians 5:11 “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.”

No, God's people have no need for guns.