DID not God in early ages order and direct war? If so, the Bible says He is unchangeable. This has puzzled me.
M. W.
At first it may seem that God has ordered wars. But study the question closely and you will see that God never ordained the cruelties and barbarities of war. God overrules in wars, but He does not originate them. When men get so wickedly cruel that they are determined to fight each other, the Lord often steps in and turns the scale so that the best results are achieved that could possibly be wrought out among such evil-minded men. The spirit of gentleness in the New Testament is the same spirit that is in the Old. This may not appear to you at first, but continue to study the harmony of God's Word, and not what wrong principles of education have placed in our minds as discord, and you will see the perfect agreement all the way through. This is too much of a subject to treat more fully in the Question Corner; we may have something to say about it editorially at another time.