Guns in the Bible?

[packman]

Must be in there somewhere. Larry Pratt, exuctive director of Gun Owner of America, says so and you may be in the godless group if you don't own one. In an interview with Mike Wallace, Larry offers a counterpoint to Mark Kelly's opinion about reasonable registration.

http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/fox-news-marks-newtown-anniversary

[Blanket Statements]

1. They're somewhere in the back

Quoting Homer Simpson

[bluedigger]

2. All I could find was hand grenades.

[spin]

3. First, the group called the Gun Owners of America is the Tea Party of the gun rights movement. ...

GOA members feel the NRA is far too liberal and too willing to compromise.

Second as to your question, "Guns in the Bible?" Swords were the handguns of that day.

Assuming the New Testament is factual and Jesus existed, Jesus himself mentioned carrying a sword.

35Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”

“Nothing,” they answered.

36He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’b ; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”

38The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”

“That’s enough!” he replied.
—Luke 22:36 - 38 NIV

Note that Jesus did not say that everyone should carry a sword.

According to the Bible, the Apostle Peter did carry a sword and used it to slice off the ear of a high priest when Jesus was arrested by the authorities.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)John 18:10 NIV

Some believe the sword that Peter carried was a Roman Gladius which is a truly fearsome weapon that can easily removed an arm or a head. Others believe that it was a machete-like instrument which would have been a useful tool for a fisherman but still a very lethal weapon especially in skilled hands.

[packman]

5. Guns, man, GUNS

He said, "GUNS" not swords, stones, boogers, toe-jam,knives, or angry words- guns.
And, please I don't need Bible crap, I had enough of that mind fog in my life to last-well- a lifetime. Read a good book, not the Good Book . Hell, read a comic book it's at least more entertaining and won't warp you as much. Bible weapons, lol.

[Initech]

7. I saw a bumper bumper sticker the other day:"Pro god, pro guns, pro life".

And I'm thinking "hmmm... how can you be pro guns and pro life at the same time?". I would think those two things would conflict with each other.

[safeinOhio]

4. While there may be one or two loop-holes used

to justify weapons, there are many, many more like turn the other cheek, blessed are the peace makers and, even when they were nailing him to the cross, "forgive them for they know not…".

[Initech]

6. I knoweth what thou art thinking: "Dost thou prayeth six times or only five?"