Explain how these teachings might influence the actions of a believer?
Adam Reilly Philosophy & Ethics
Explain how these teachings might influence the actions of a believer?
The teachings of a Christian could affect their beliefs about going to war in many ways as those who agree with the war would be willing to participate and those who disagree with going to war because of there beliefs will protest against going to war.
Some Christians believe that war is justifiable under certain regulations, they say that it is acceptable if it follows the just war theory which states that we can go to war as a last resort as long as everything has been tried to solve the problems of the war. They also may believe war is acceptable because of the old testament of the Bible in which God is seen as quite an angry character and throughout the testament there is a lot of references to people getting ready for battle this is shown under Jeremiah 50:21 in the bible ‘Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod. Persue, kill and completely destroy them, declares the LORD. Do everything I have commanded you.’ This leads many Christians to believe war is acceptable they prey for support when going to war for them and for every other troop there. However even though agreeing to war they do have rules, in 1983 the Church of England agreed that although nuclear weapons were a bad thing however they have a duty to protect there citizens from other countries with nuclear weapons. They said that all countries agreed not to be the first to use the weapons however and there also taking steps to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, as these could destroy the world.