Article September 4, 1989 Issue

"The weapons of our warfare"

The Christian Science Monitor

Given the continuing stockpile of chemical and biological weapons, the title of this religious article might seem a bit ironic. And yet if you're familiar with the Bible, you'll recognize this title as part of a much-loved Scriptural verse.

It's a statement of great power and of hope. Of power, because it shows the most effective way to heal the hatred and mad ambition that would unleash the monstrous evil of these weapons. And of hope, because it promises that all things, all peoples and nations, must finally yield to the knowledge of God and to the power of His Christ.

The quotation is from St. Paul, who knew more than a little about what many consider the most important war of all—the battle between the flesh and the Spirit, between what he called "spiritual wickedness" and divine goodness. Writing to his converts and instructing them on how best to defeat the evil of the world, he said, "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."^{II Cor. 10:3–5.}

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