God's Word forbids innocent bloodshedding, and there is no war exception to be found. God promises wrath upon a nation that sheds innocent blood.
America has shed much innocent blood during wartime, but patriotism blinds most people to admitting these facts.
My own sin in this matter haunts me. When Iran held our diplomats hostage, I cried out for nuclear obliteration, caring not that millions of innocent people's lives would be snuffed out in an instant.
Besides bombing civilians, there are several other methods that shed innocent blood. Our soldiers are given orders to kill everybody around when IEDs explode. At Haditha, civilians were massacred due to wicked "rules of engagement." Civilians are gunned down from far away helicopter gunships without proof that they were combatants or that they threatened anybody's life.
Economic sanctions destroy entire counties, their food supply, and basic medical necessities, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths of women and children.
Drone attacks kill unidentified innocents and bystanders from far away.
We set aside the principles barring innocent bloodshedding because we want to have our way, and we don't care what happens to the innocent that we slaughter.
Americans have adopted the idolatrous principle of pragmatism, which destroys every moral restraint in favor of what works.
Sinners expect God to be pragmatic about His love, and assume He will set aside His holiness and moral requirements to accomplish the noble cause of saving them.
But the Cross proves them wrong. God's Righteousness is vindicated by Christ's death to satisfy His just demands for the punishment of our sin. Jesus died for us!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
