1. What is a basic argument for pacifism?

2. What are texts that come to bear on this issue?

    Exodus 22:2

    Matthew 12:29

    Mark 3:27

    Luke 11:21

    Proverbs 25:21-22

    Romans 12:17

    Matthew 5:39

3. What James White and John Piper say on this issue.

4. Jesus and the sword in Luke 22: 35-38

Inquisition: In light of the Bible’s teaching on violence and self-defense, what do we make of the Christian Crusades?