[Automatic Nate]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (sdcinder,)
I would have to say that a person has a pretty big chance of not surviving if they happen to threaten my peace and the peace of my family in an extremely violent and disruptive way.  What I mean is, that it is my duty as a parent to protect my children and spouse by any means possible if mortal danger is imminent and I know it.  I am also stricken with the protection of their mental and emotional safetey as well but that is not exactly relevant to the above statement.

I am the Gatekeeper for my family and there are times which could arise in which I must use all the tools available to me to protect them.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
A fair enough argument, and you are right that you and I disagree. I hold that God is enough of a "Gatekeeper" that I do not need to decide who to kill and who not to when considering my wife's (no kids yet) safety. Knowing my wife as I do, I'm confident that either of us would die faithfully and thus do not order my life around the fear of one of our deaths. Instead, we both have chosen to live such that anyone who would see might know that the love of Christ has overcome fear, at least to the extent that we've been willing to let God's love overcome that fear (I do admit that I don't know what would happen should one of the apparently common doomsday intruder-with-a-pistol situations would come up; I only hope that I would remain faithful).