[Vision2020] WWJS?

[Joe Campbell]

Aren't these quotes contradictory? Could you provide the "context" that explains that?

On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:36 AM, "Gary Crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Ah! One of my favorite pastimes, dueling Bible passages used out of context.
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> Matt. 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
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> From: Tom Hansen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:39 PM
> To: Paul Rumelhart
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] WWJS?
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> "Then Jesus said to him, 'Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.'"
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> - Matthew 26:52-54
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> Seeya round town, Moscow, because .  . .
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> Tom Hansen
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> "There's room at the top they are telling you still 
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
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> - John Lennon
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> On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:04 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> In other words, I doubt He'd say much at all.  I don't picture him as someone who would get all worked up.  It would probably have something to do with judging the man's heart and not the weight of iron at his hip.  The apparent fact that you think he'd find something wrong with this is the part that baffles me.
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>> But then, I'm not a biblical scholar.
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>> Paul
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>> On 02/05/2013 07:34 PM, Art Deco wrote:
>>> Somehow it appears that you missed the point of WWJS?
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>>> w.
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>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> People on this list might find this very disconcerting, but there is actually nothing evil about owning a firearm, or carrying a firearm for defense, or even in using a firearm not against another person or their property (though they might frown on firing one off in church).  It's only when you are shooting another person or their property with one that the moral ambiguities arise.
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>>>> Again, because I think this point is important, "firearm" (not equal to) "evil".
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>>>> Paul
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>>>> From: Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>
>>>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:41 PM
>>>> Subject: [Vision2020] WWJS?
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>>>> WWJS?
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>>>> http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/05/arkansas-to-allow-concealed-guns-in-churches/?hpt=hp_t2
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>>>> art.deco.studios at gmail.com
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