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Home ARGUMENT LIST God, Nature of God Is God a God of peace or of war?

Is God a God of peace or of war?

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  • Romans 15:33 "The God of peace."
  • Isaiah 2:4 ". . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

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  • Exodus 15:3 "The Lord is a man of war."
  • Joel 3:9-10 "Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong."

http://www.ffrf.org/books/lfif/?t=contra

So what is He?

 

< Both. The Bible didn't say that God is only a God of peace.

God reacts only when people do certain evil and nasty things. It is similar to a nation being peaceful until attacked.


 

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 January 2010 00:39