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  • Is It Possible to Love One’s Enemies?
    Awake!—2009 | November
    • The Encyclopedia of Religion and War states: “The earliest followers of Jesus rejected war and military service,” recognizing these practices as “incompatible with the love ethic of Jesus and the injunction to love one’s enemies.”a

  • Is It Possible to Love One’s Enemies?
    Awake!—2009 | November
    • a “Christian writers prior to Constantine [Roman emperor 306-337 C.E.] unanimously condemned killing in war,” says the Encyclopedia of Religion and War. A shift in attitude occurred when the apostasy foretold in the Bible became rampant.​—Acts 20:29, 30; 1 Timothy 4:1.

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