{"id":2880,"date":"2013-09-04T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2013-09-04T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:25:37","slug":"when-does-god-say-we-should-go-to-war-and-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2013\/09\/when-does-god-say-we-should-go-to-war-and-how-to-do-it.html","title":{"rendered":"When Does God Say We Should Go to War, and how to do it."},"content":{"rendered":"

As Republicans like John Boehner <\/a>and Democrats like John Kerry agree argue the moral case for war, let’s look at when God says it is okay to go to war from Deut 20 and look at the principles for today.<\/p>\n

1. Unlike other nations who just attacked, God’s people were to first make an offer of peace.<\/p>\n

10\u00a0\u201cWhen you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Only after a refusal of an official declaration of war and attempts at peace, can you attack.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now if\u00a0the city<\/i>\u00a0will not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. When you go to war, as a last resort, you fight to win killing off the enemy.<\/p>\n

\u00a013\u00a0And when the\u00a0Lord\u00a0your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4. When going to war, try not to destroy the surrounding fruit land (trees, etc) that will hurt the land and ability to produce long term.<\/p>\n

19\u00a0\u201cWhen you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field\u00a0is<\/i>\u00a0man\u2019s\u00a0food.<\/i>\u00a020\u00a0Only the trees which you know\u00a0are<\/i>\u00a0not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the author of\u00a0Godonomics<\/a>, where I lay out moral, historical, and philosophical reasons for God’s wisdom, \u00a0I would suggest that the moral case against Syria doesn’t meet these criteria for many reasons… \u00a0 The President says he will go to war, even if Congress says no. \u00a0We have not offered peace first. \u00a0 We are not using it as a last resort. \u00a0If we do fight, we are not willing to fight to win. \u00a0 There are many other good reasons NOT to go to war, as I laid out in the last two blogs, but here is another reason. \u00a0This battle doesn’t meet the criteria.<\/p>\n

For more information on the book or DVD series, GODONOMICS, checkout\u00a0www.godonomics.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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