Originally posted by galveston75
The point is Ron, yes you would still kill in a heart beat if you felt you had to and even more importantly you would do it in half a heart beat if your country told you to.
This is who you have followed in your life, your country, not Jesus. And you have made that clearly known over and over and over to everyone here.
We all clearly know where your allegiance is and it is not with Jesus.
You call the God of the Old Testament, Jehovah, and as you know, this Jehovah God was all for fighting in war and killing by the sword. The atheists that read the Old Testament, call your Jehovah, a homicidal maniac or a genocidal maniac, because of His support of wars and killing by the sword. So when I was in the military I was just following the teachings of your Jehovah God.
Now, that I am too old to be recalled to active duty as a soldier by my country, I have no need to live by the sword or die by the sword. I also have gained a belief in Jesus as the the way, the truth, and the life and now call myself a Christian, even though that is up for debate with some people.
That said, then are you a follower of the war God, Jehovah, of the Old Testament or the Christian God of the New Testament? So why do you call yourself Jehovah's Witnesses, if you do not follow His commands to fight in wars?
But of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them...
(Deuteronomy 20:16-17 NKJV)
So Joshua conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.
(Joshua 10:40 NKJV)
And Joshua proceeded to strike all the land of the mountainous region and the Neg-ebg and the She·phelahh and the slopes and all their kings. He did not let a survivor remain, and everything that breathed he devoted to destruction, just as
Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.
(Joshua 10:40 New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses)
To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
...
A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.
(Ecclesastes 3:1,8 NKJV)