Christians and total warfare

Peter Leithart offers challenging thoughts on enemies--of God and his people. Dr. Leithart shows from scripture that God has enemies, and then reminds us that if we belong to God, we will have enemies, too:

One of the great evils of modern Christianity is the belief that we can somehow escape enmity, that we can come to some mutually satisfying compromise with the world, that we can treat enemies as friends without consequence.

Enmity with the world is inescable. If we try to make peace with the forces at war with our God, Dr. Leithart says, we commit the sin of Ahab with the Arameans:

The weapons of our warfare are different now, but Christian warfare is still a warfare of utter destruction.

The article offers challenging thoughts, particularly for those who hold onto Mt. 5:9 but prefer to overlook Mt. 10:34.