Training Your Kids to Kill

Training Your Kids to Kill (or other topic which you prefer)
by Alex Gore
Very recently a report was published by By Zack Pelta-Hel er of AlterNet which was
entitled,

"Kids

Kill

In

Violent

Christian

Videogame"
(http://www.alternet.org/story/38873/). Posted 21 July, 2006, Printed 27 July, 2006.
The article states:
"The Rapture is headed for New York City, and just in time for Christmas.
In Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a Christian-themed videogame due out this
October, the New York skyline smoulders during the End of Days, the
faithful have been called up to heaven, and the remaining New Yorkers
are engaged in an epic clash between the Tribulation Forces and the
Antichrist's army of Global Community Peacekeepers (aka UN
Peacekeepers).
Evangelical videogame makers are praying that Eternal Forces will finally
enable them to tap into the $25 bil ion global videogame market. They
hope their "Christian" values-themed game wil capture the same
audience that has made best-sellers out of violent standards like Grand
Theft Auto and Halo 2. The Left Behind: Eternal Forces videogame is
based upon the wildly profitable "Left Behind" series, written by Rev.
Timothy LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. The "Left Behind" books have sold
roughly 65 mil ion copies and are second only to the Bible in sales of
Christ!
The series revolves around an eccentric interpretation of the Bible that
sets the Armageddon in Iraq and refers to Saddam Hussein as a servant
of Satan. President Bush is a big fan of Rev. LaHaye's brand of
dominionism. Prior to the 2000 election, Bush met with LaHaye and other
Christian fundamentalist leaders to cultivate the support of the religious
right. Game point, spirit point Eternal Forces is a real-time strategy
videogame, meaning that a player manipulates an entire army
simultaneously, as opposed to the common first-person shooter games in
which a player controls only one character. In essence, the player
becomes the commander of a virtual army, deciding when to unleash
weapons from an arsenal of guns, tanks and helicopters. Of course, since
this is an evangelical game, soldiers lose "spirit points" each time they kill
an opponent, leaving them prey to the Antichrist's forces and in dire need
of replenishment through prayer. To top it off, each time a soldier slays
one of the Antichrist's soldiers (who are UN Peacekeepers, remember), he
triumphantly cries, "Praise the Lord!" Eternal Forces caught the media's
attention in May, when it premiered at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The Los Angeles Times reported that in order to foster buzz for the
videogame, the game's co-creators, Troy Lyndon and Jeffrey Frichner,
plan to issue a million advanced copies to churches nationwide. That
announcement galvanized Jonathan Hutson of Talk To Action, a forum for
discussing the religious right, into action. Hutson, who identifies himself as
a Christian and a patriot, said by phone, "I'm offended by a game that
allows children to rehearse mass kil ing in the name of Christ or the
Antichrist." (end quote)

Sunday Sabbath Secret Rapture
Isn't it alarming that the fallen Sunday keeping churches, who teach a false doctrine called
the Secret Rapture), are now being urged to educate their children to break the 6th
commandment? The sixth commandment states, "Thou shalt not kill." The
commandments are an expression of God's wil and character. Because the
commandments are holy, just and good, they clearly reveal which actions constitute moral
behaviour which actions are 'right' and which are 'wrong.'
Because some prominent religio-political groups are condoning the kil ing of 'the wicked'
and encouraging their children to consider this behaviour as moral, it is now vital that
God's people recognise His true will in regard to 'heretics' (i.e. those who have different
beliefs to mainstream religions). Refer to the eBook, The Assassination of God's
Character' at www.themeofthebible.com). God's people need to be able to recognise the
difference between good and evil, but this discernment is impossible through human
wisdom. In order to understand God's character, we must (1) study the life and testimony
of Jesus', and (2) evaluating all teachings and writings in the light of the 10
commandments which reveal the will of God.

Ever since the fal of humanity in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve ate from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, humanity has been confused as to what
differentiates wrong actions from right actions. To combat this confusion, it was necessary
that God verbally expressed (on Mt Sinai) the principles of His character and His
government which is 'unselfish love.' The 10 commandments identify God's character as
unselfish love and this divine character was clearly demonstrated 'in the flesh' during the
life of Jesus Christ (in whom there was NO violence - Isa 53:9. "And he made his grave
with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither
was any deceit in his mouth).

The Messiah demonstrated that we should love our enemies - not commit violence against
them. Jesus said, "But I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that
persecute you (Matt 5:44). He stated that unselfish love was the end of the law - the
fulfillment of it, not the abolition of the law of love. Christ came to perfectly reveal the
Father's character (John 14:9). "Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you,
and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how
sayest thou, Show us the Father?" So we know that God is loving in every situation and
that in NO situation can God's love, (His character), which is embodied in His moral law
and government, be put aside. God's character does not change. "For I, Jehovah,
change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed (Malachi 3:6).;
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning" (James 1:17);
"Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and to-day" (Hebrews 13:8) [yea] "and for ever." The
One True God (John 17:3) never becomes violent; He always is the Source of Life, not the
destroyer of life.

Eternal Death - the Consequence of Unrepented Sin
Sinners destroy themselves by their own selfish choices (Eze 28:18). "By the multitude of
thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries;
therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I
have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of al them that behold thee." Isa
33:11,12; "Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath (Strong's
Concordance #7307 ruwach - spirit, mind)1 is a fire that shal devour you.12 And the
peoples shal be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."
(Isa 5:24) "Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass
sinketh down in the flame, so their root shal be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go
up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel".
Death is not an arbitrary act on God's part. It is a 'natural' consequence of sin - not a
deliberate 'act of God. "For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life
and peace." "Romans 8:6. "The sting of death is sin." (1 Cor. 15:56). The sting of death is
sin; and the power of sin is the law: There could be no death if there were no sin. Sin
carries death in its bosom. So it was not an arbitrary act on the part of God that death
came upon men because of sin. It could not possibly be otherwise."
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107307:
7307 ruwach roo'-akh from 7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation;
figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational
being (including its expression and functions):--air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side,
spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y). see HEBREW for 07306