non-violence

"Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." Violence and hate only create more violence and hate, no matter how good the intentions are. In the immortal words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "Hate begets hate; violence begets violence...

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. -Matthew 21:12 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the...

So today I'll be trying to show you through many early Christian sources that Non-violence even in the face of death was the universal way on the Early Church. I think it's important to know what our earliest brothers and sisters thought, and I hope this gives you a new outlook. The sources will...