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Christ, and His apostles never believed in physical defense, they believed in letting people hurt them physically, and the instance Jesus went right through the crowd shows he believed when God wants a person to do something physical they can not hurt the other person physically, so He protected Himself when they wanted to push Him off the cliff, by going through them, but He did not hurt them, He stopped them from doing something to hurt Him, Physically He never hurt anyone, in the future, when He comes to fight the antichrist, He will defeat the evil people, by spiritually having fire, and brimstone come out of His mouth, so spiritual violence is allowed when God wants that. Wow, I must say I think a demon was just manifesting itself in a woman, I was not even talking to her, I was just typing, but she was talking to her child, and then her voice changed, and she said die, then she talked to him more, and then said die, I thought it was a guy, but I look and all I saw was the woman, and the little child. He that is in us is greater, then He that is in the world, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. I am very happy that happened, because I must be getting back to spiritually being blessed by Christ, that means I will enter into the presence of God. I love the presence of God, may we all get there. Being in Him. I hope this is alright I wrote this, it is a beneficial thing to me to increase the faith of other people, so they may believe in Christ, and follow Him, as He has instructed in The New Testament. Praise, and worship God, and His Christ with me.

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del16462,

Romans 13 gives the clearest explanation of how the Church is to regard government. Some Christians -- many in the Apostolic Christian Church -- believe that he that "beareth not the sword in vain . . . the minister of God" (Rom. 13:4) is not referring to Christians. Why? Because apostle Paul goes further in describing this kind of "minister of God" as "a revenger to excute wrath upon him that doeth evil." (Rom. 13:4)

Before Christ, one of the ways God's People (lsrael) glorified Him was through their physical dominance of the peoples around them. When obedient, they were a (physical) force to be wreckened with. Christ changed this mission of physical strength to spiritual strength -- demonstrated by a willingness and ability to withstand abuse/persecution, see Matt. 5. Clearly, "executing wrath" -- even upon him that doeth evil -- is not part of the Christian's calling. The Church glorifies God not by taking down wrongdoers, but by fulfilling Matt. 5.

This is why some Christians believe it is not a Christian's place to serve in this area of government. Look at the language Paul uses in Rom. 13. The church is referred to as "thee" and "thou", but the minister of God/wrath is referred to as "he" ("he is the minister of God to thee for good") Paul places Christians and revengers in two different categories.

Paul's whole point is that there is a level of nobility in this line of work -- that some moral force needs to keep control of the evil forces in the world so that they do not consume it (before its time). The moral forces should be respected by the People of God, but are not the People of God. Just as God worked through Pharaoh and other pagan kings in the Old Testament to accomplish His purposes, God works through secular government to keep order today.

Obviously, your first concern is that you will be judged by God for defending yourself against the criminal in that alley. All I can say to that is that it is my understanding that God makes allowances for people who err in ignorance (sorry, I can't think of the scripture off the top of my head). If you truly did not realize that Christians are not given leave to kill even wrongdoers, only God can judge, no?