Debate: True or false. Religion never caused any wars, it was only people
Side: True

I'm not saying God was wrong, only that God is bringing about the fulfillment of his purposes in various ways at various times.Seems contradictory to have condoned war after commanding that his people not kill and then sending his son to say that killing is wrong.--YOU deliberately MISS the point, or are ignoring it as stated above: God is bringing about fulfillment of his purposes in various ways at various times. Don't second guess God. You will be the only one who loses in the end.But when Jesus came, GOd's SON, he instructed the first century Christians NOT to engage in war, that they should live by the brotherly love principle...That's all very well, why not just live by that in the first place.--See the very first answer above: God brings about his purposes in various ways at various times. Everything has a purpose, and if you can't understand it, then it'syour problem not God's. He is smarter than you are.COnstantine was a pagan politician, firstly. HE was the one who decided Christian doctrine, and wrongly so. God is the only one with that authority.So, do you still believe the bible is the inerrant word of God?--Absolutely, but the Bible contains both literal document and figurative language, just as ALL books do, except perhaps a chemistry or law textbook. A true Christian does not PRACTICE deviation from belief, altho they may sin, become SINCERELY repentant, CHANGE their BEHAVIOR, and be forgiven.Does this count for all sin?All sins we are truly repentant for, yes. The key is not to practice sin after repentance takes place. There has to be a turning around of behavior.Yes, the Old Testament is trustworthy.So it's laws and teachings must be upheld, or is it only when they don't contradict the teaching of Jesus.--The OT was for the Jews and Israelites. Jesus fulfilled that Law as the only human to ever live it perfectly. After Jesus was killed, the Law had served its purpose, ad Christians were no longer bound by it, EXCEPT in the principles that were REPEATED in the NT.Christians do not live by the Jewish Law as given to Moses, although many of the PRINCIPLES embodied in that Law were REPEATED for Christians. These principles have never become null and void.--They have become null and void for Christians. Ex: animal sacrifices, feast days, Sabbath day laws. The part of the old Law that is repeated for Christians embodies the law of love--do not commit adultery, covet what is another's, steal, practice homosexuality or drunkenness, lie, etc. ALl of those things embody the law of brotherly love--if you practice love you will not do those things.So why are the Jews the chosen people? Surely God would value steadfast adherence in the face of challengers, especially given all that he and the Jews had been through.--They are not God's chosen people NOW. They killed the Son. What God values and why is your conjecture, not God's. Do not expect God to go by your reasoning, rather, open your mind and consider his reasoning as superior, and learn from it. You can do that through Bible study.We have not completely switched to a new set of laws through Jesus. As above, many of the PRINCIPLES of the old Law were REPEATED for Christians. But Jesus FULFILLED the old Law with his death, and hence, it has completed the purpose for which God made it.So, you've picked and chosen those parts which make you feel easy about being essentially modern Jews.--Hardly. The entire Bible is true. It is history of the Jews, and their downfall. And one can easily see since their downfall that they are not God's chosen people now. Their nation was removed from them for thousands of years, and they were scattered so that there are no true bloodline Jews as descendants of Abraham now. They are diaspora. They have had to resort to seeking protection from a secular power in order to have a semblance of their lost country. They should have learned that lesson in Ezekiel's day, in Daniel's day, but they did not.Caps are to emphasize certain words for meaning.Jesus was an affront to the Sadducees and Pharisees' teachings because they had perverted, subverted, God's original Law with weighty add-ons.Such as?--One I can think of was that by the time Jesus came, one could not even kill a flea that was biting you on the Sabbath, as that was considered work. Jesus set them straight on these things, for which they murdered him.Was Jesus' death not the fulfilment of prophecy and his ultimate goal?Jesus' death was the fulfillment of prophecy because God knew Satan was running things on earth, and that Satan could not resist killing God's first Son, whom he knew in heaven long before the creation of the universe. Think about it: all Satan had to do to win was NOT have Jesus killed, because Jesus would never have died naturally or from sickinss as a perfect man. But Satan could not resist the opportunity to arrange things so that it would happen.