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551 Power, Pacifism, & Being Consistently Pro-Life with Shane Claiborne

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The Early Church Dealing With Soldiers

The early church understood that there was something inconsistent with an ethnic, a Christian ethic of life and being part of the army. Jesus nowhere teaches that it is right for his own disciples to offer violence to anyone. A soldier could stay in the military as long as they made a commitment not to kill. That might sound weird to us, but this is a time where the Roman military was building aqueducts and roads.

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