Concerning the early 20th century international war termed
The Great War or The First WORLD War:
War bears within itself the justification
of sin. For it contradicts God's command-
ment. A final answer to the question of
whether a Christian should or should not
participate must be rejected. Both answers
are possible.
One person shows solidarity and goes along.
The other one says: "Even the authorities
are demanding sin; I will not participate."
On the one hand, we are threatened by
militarism. And on the other,
by doctrinaire pacifism.
This is not a matter of assessing people
morally. Here people did die heroic
or miserably cowardly deaths. One can
be even more grateful to the cowardly
than to the person who died heroically.
Just think what it means for a poor,
cowardly person to offer up life itself!
The heroes at least had an ideal. The
others died without such an ideal,
miserably, but perhaps with all the more
difficulty.
But both suffered death, stood together
in a single line like a wall. Gratitude!
But God amid all this! It is not our
place to award retroactive medals for
bravery. Nor the opposite either.
They died. How? Who knows? Enough
simply that they died. As a result,
we live. That prompts us to offer
thanksgiving and to repent before
God!
Pray for the victory of one's own
cause? No.
It, the church, prays only for peace
for soldiers on both sides. War sermons?
They were equally bad in both Germany
and England.
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