I have a book on early Pentecostals and how the views WW1 they got persecuted a good amount actually as they was outsiders for many reasons. Here is a quote from one of them ““If it were the duty of Christians to go to war in obedience to the rulers, then it would be their duty on one side as much as on another. Government would be an arbitrary god, without reason. Who is government, but the people?” “The Church is no place to flaunt flags of national preference. God’s grace and Gospel are international. Christ died for all men. Antichrist means to run the church by government edict. Then we will have State and Church. The State will dictate to the Church. The flags represent fallen nations, with fallen nationalistic, sectional prides, ambitions, etc., that breed strife, enmity, jealousy and war, for they are without Christ. We do not belong to them.” Frank Bartelman
I have a book on early Pentecostals and how the views WW1 they got persecuted a good amount actually as they was outsiders for many reasons.
Here is a quote from one of them ““If it were the duty of Christians to go to war in obedience to the rulers, then it would be their duty on one side as much as on another. Government would be an arbitrary god, without reason. Who is government, but the people?” “The Church is no place to flaunt flags of national preference. God’s grace and Gospel are international. Christ died for all men. Antichrist means to run the church by government edict. Then we will have State and Church. The State will dictate to the Church. The flags represent fallen nations, with fallen nationalistic, sectional prides, ambitions, etc., that breed strife, enmity, jealousy and war, for they are without Christ. We do not belong to them.” Frank Bartelman