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Originally Posted by Truth
Actually, this particular teaching in the LCs has always bothered me.
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This is an area where Christians agree to disagree. It is not too dissimilar to the supposed reaction to persecution. In church history some Christians have taken the Lord's pattern as a lamb to suffer martyrdom willingly. Other believers, like the Waldensians, took King David as their pattern to arm themselves for battle in defense of their women and children.
Talking to one brother years ago, he commented that we all have a "line in the sand." We may all say, like Peter did, that we will die willingly as the Lord did, as a lamb prepared for slaughter, until they begin to rape your wife and young daughter, as so often happened during the dark ages by the Papal emissaries, and once they cross that line, all passivity ceases.
I personally don't think some defining "way" is mandated in the scripture. The Lord told His disciples, when facing persecutions, to take no thought what to say, because our Heavenly Father will give us words to say, and actions to take.
Anyways I digress. My point is that the Lord is not "one size fits all." He directs different brothers in diverse ways.