A CHRISTIAN DECLARATION ON PEACE, WAR & MILITARY

Published: May 31, 2008, 1:12 pm

Tags: christianity, church, religion, war, zionism

This excerpt is from the 1953 declaration . . . The Position of the General Conference Mennonite Church on love and nonresistance as adopted at Portland, Oregon, August 22, 1953. “To the Christians of all communions we affirm that our Lord is pleading with his Church for a break with war and that He is calling His children to a life of love, nonresistance and peacemaking in Christ. We appeal to all men to search reverently the Scriptures, to respond affirmatively to the claims of Christ, and to be colaborers with Christ in the blessed ministry of reconciliation of man to God and man to his fellow man. AMEN.” “. . . war is altogether contrary to the teaching and spirit of Christ and the Gospel. War is sin. If we profess the principle of peace and nevertheless engage in warfare and strife, we as Christians become guilty of sin and fall under the condemnation of Christ, the righteous judge.” I am not a member of the Mennonite denomination. I post this, as a

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