True Christians Are Harmless

Are you harmless? If you are not harmless, then you are not really a Christian – regardless of what you profess. Do you love your enemies? Would you give your life for your enemy? Or would you rather kill your enemy? The Christian way is not only doing good deeds, it is also being harmless. The big betrayal of Jesus Christ is the association of Jesus Christ with violence. Christianity has earned for itself a bad reputation of being associated, in many cases, with violence and intolerance. Such is not true Christianity. True Christians are harmless as Jesus Christ Himself was harmless.

The thought that true Christians do not hurt other people provides a very important basis for determining, especially in the last days, what schemes and systems are of God and which ones are not. Jesus warned:

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. John 16:2, 3.

This statement highlights another loop-hole through which misguided persons attempt to justify their giving-in to the carnal spirit of evil and intolerance. They claim that they are manifesting ‘righteous indignation’. Because of their supposedly high moral values and standing, they are greatly incensed about the ‘evil’ and ‘immorality’ of others, so they have to ensure that ‘justice’ is done. But this is just another manifestation of the carnal, unloving and unforgiving spirit that seeks to destroy rather than to restore.

True justice is primarily concerned with restoration and restitution, be it towards offender or victim. This might involve ensuring that the offender compensates the victim or withholding privileges from the offender which might otherwise be used for strengthening their offensive posture. Punishment, for the sake of punishment, that has nothing restorative about it and does not benefit anyone is only vengeance and is essentially carnal. Such a spirit will cause the supposed executor of ‘justice’ to leave the suffering victim unattended while they seek to vent their anger on the offender.

These zealous enforcers will say such things as: “this person deserves to be punished.” But, in that case, which of us do not deserve to be punished? Should our lives then revolve around punishing each other for our various misdeeds and supposed wrongs? Where then would it end? We would then be all under constant punishment, which would fit Satan’s agenda, rather than God’s.

In reality, many of those who are so consumed with executing this supposed justice have a lot of anger bottled up within them and would only be too ready to seize the opportunity to vent that anger when they find a supposedly justifiable basis for doing so. Such is not the manifestation of love, but rather, selfish gratification at the expense of others. Jesus said that “these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me” (St. John 16:3).

Even the dreaded Mark of the Beast (whatever one might consider it to be) is based on a scheme in which violence and coercion is used to impose a particular form of religious observance.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:15-17.
If one can appreciate that God does not operate on that basis, then one should be protected from misguidedly supporting any such scheme, regardless of the supposed benefits that it is presented as offering or the pious garb with which it might be clothed.

SERIES: Are you harmless?

PART ONE: Mark of True Christianity
PART 2: Forgive them because they do not know any better
PART 3: Love is harmless
PART 4: For Peace Sake
PART 5: True Christians are harmless
PART 6: Following Jesus