The Quran’s Doctrine of Jihad: Peaceful Defense or Eternal Offensive Warfare?

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The question “The Quran’s doctrine of jihad: peaceful defense or eternal offensive warfare?” cannot be answered responsibly by isolating one verse, one modern slogan, or one political example. The issue must be examined through the Quran’s own language, the development from Meccan proclamation to Medinan rule, the doctrine of abrogation, the role of Muhammad’s example, and the way classical Islamic law historically systematized the subject. A Christian apologetic analysis must also avoid personal hostility toward Muslims as individuals. Muslims, like all human beings, are made in the image of God according to Genesis 1:26–27, and Christians are commanded to speak truthfully, patiently, and with self-control. Yet treating people with dignity does not require blurring the theological difference between Islam and biblical Christianity. The issue is not whether individual Muslims can be peaceful neighbors, honest citizens, or sincere worshipers. The issue is whether the Quran and the authoritative legal tradition that grew from it teach jihad as merely defensive protection or as a permanent instrument for expanding Islamic rule.

A related foundational question is What is the Quran, because Islam’s doctrine of jihad cannot be detached from Islam’s view of revelation. In Islamic belief, the Quran is the final Arabic revelation given to Muhammad, and Muhammad’s life supplies the living pattern by which the Quran is applied. That means jihad is not merely an abstract moral term. It belongs to a religious system in which revelation, political authority, law, and community identity are joined together. In biblical Christianity, however, the final and sufficient revelation is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God, and the Christian congregation is not commissioned to conquer territory by the sword. Second Timothy 3:16–17 says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.” The Christian standard is therefore not religious expansion through coercive power but obedience to the written Word of Jehovah through faith in Jesus Christ.

The Meaning of Jihad and the Problem of Modern Reduction

The Arabic word jihad broadly means striving, exertion, or struggle. Modern Muslim apologists often emphasize this broad sense and speak of personal moral effort, resistance against sin, charitable service, or verbal defense of Islam. This broader meaning exists within Islamic vocabulary, and it is not wrong to acknowledge that jihad can be used in nonmilitary ways. The problem arises when this broad definition is used to conceal or soften the military and legal doctrine that classical Islam developed from the Quran, Muhammad’s campaigns, and the hadith literature. A word may have a broad semantic range while still carrying a specific legal meaning in a doctrinal setting. For example, the English word “charge” can mean an accusation, a command, an electrical condition, or a financial cost, but the courtroom context determines its function. In the same way, when Islamic jurists discussed jihad under public law, they were not merely discussing inward moral effort. They were discussing warfare, truces, spoils, prisoners, jizyah, political submission, and the expansion of Islamic authority.

This is why the peaceful-defense claim is incomplete. It selects one part of the word’s range and presents it as though it exhausts the doctrine. Yet the Quranic passages most central to legal discussions of jihad do not merely say that Muslims may defend themselves when attacked. They include commands to fight until specified religious and political conditions are met. Quran 9:5, often called the Sword Verse, speaks of fighting polytheists after the sacred months and ceasing when they repent, establish prayer, and give zakah. Quran 9:29 commands fighting against People of the Book until they pay jizyah while humbled. Quran 8:39 commands fighting until fitnah is gone and religion belongs to Allah. Whatever one thinks of modern reinterpretations, these are not framed merely as private spirituality. They concern organized conflict, public submission, religious identity, and political order.

A serious examination of Examining the Qur’an and Islamic Teachings must therefore distinguish between lexical possibility and legal function. A Muslim may say, “Jihad means struggle,” and that statement can be linguistically true. But when the question concerns the Quran’s doctrine of warfare, the controlling issue is not whether jihad can ever mean nonviolent striving. The controlling issue is whether the Quran and classical Islamic law restrict military jihad to defense alone. They do not. Classical Islamic law recognized defensive jihad, but it also recognized offensive jihad as a communal obligation under proper authority for the expansion or defense of Islamic rule.

Mecca, Medina, and the Change from Preaching to Rule

The historical setting matters. Muhammad’s earlier Meccan period was marked by proclamation, warning, religious argument, and endurance under opposition. During that period, the Muslim community lacked political power. Many passages from this stage emphasize patience, disputation, and turning away from opponents. These are the verses most commonly quoted today when Islam is presented as a religion of unqualified peace. Yet the Medinan period changed the situation dramatically. Muhammad became not only a preacher but the head of a governed community. The Quranic material from this period includes laws about marriage, inheritance, punishment, treaties, taxation, warfare, and communal loyalty. The religion became a public order.

This transition is essential. If a person quotes only earlier passages about patience and ignores later Medinan passages about fighting, he has not represented the Quran as a whole. Islamic law did not develop from a flat reading in which all verses have the same function regardless of time and circumstance. Jurists gave great attention to chronology, context, and abrogation. They asked which verse governed when two commands appeared to pull in different directions. In many classical treatments, later Medinan directives were considered controlling over earlier calls to patience where conflict existed. Thus, the doctrine of jihad cannot be reduced to “Muslims were attacked, so they defended themselves.” Defense is part of the picture, but it is not the whole picture.

The Christian should recognize the difference between historical description and moral approval. The fact that Muhammad moved from preacher to ruler is not disputed within Islamic history. The apologetic question is whether a later ruler-prophet model, joined to continuing warfare for religious domination, can be reconciled with the teaching of Jesus Christ and His apostles. John 18:36 records Jesus saying, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight.” Jesus did not deny that He was a King; He denied that His kingdom advanced by worldly combat. That statement is decisive for Christian practice. The Christian congregation bears witness, teaches, persuades, baptizes believers by immersion, and makes disciples. It does not wage holy war to impose the Christian faith.

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Abrogation and the Weight of the Later Fighting Passages

The doctrine of abrogation is central to this discussion. The Quran’s Abrogation Doctrine refers to the Islamic principle that one revelation may supersede another. Muslim scholars have disagreed over the number of abrogated verses and the scope of abrogation, but the concept has been deeply rooted in classical exegesis. The apologetic significance is clear. When peaceful or patient passages are placed beside later fighting passages, many classical authorities did not treat them as equally controlling in all circumstances. They often gave priority to the later, more forceful commands.

Quran 9 is especially important because it belongs to the final stage of Muhammad’s career. Surah 9 lacks the opening formula found before most surahs and contains some of the most severe material concerning polytheists and People of the Book. Quran 9:5 connects the end of fighting with repentance, prayer, and zakah. Quran 9:29 connects the end of fighting with jizyah and humiliation. These conditions are religious and political, not merely defensive. A defensive-war text would naturally say, “Fight until they stop attacking you,” or “Fight until your homes are secure.” Instead, these texts attach cessation of fighting to conversion-like submission in one case and to subordinate protected status in another.

This is why the common modern claim that “jihad is only defensive” fails under the weight of the text and classical interpretation. It does not explain why fighting is linked to religious compliance. It does not explain why Jews and Christians are to be fought until they pay jizyah. It does not explain why early Islamic expansion moved rapidly beyond Arabia after Muhammad’s death. It does not explain why the four major Sunni legal schools treated offensive jihad as a communal duty under Islamic authority. A modern Muslim may personally reject offensive jihad, and Christians should be grateful whenever Muslims renounce coercive violence. But a personal modern rejection is not the same as a demonstration that the doctrine was never present in the texts and legal tradition.

Quran 9:5 and the Sword Verse

Quran 9:5 is often called the Sword Verse because of its command to fight polytheists after the sacred months. The verse includes actions such as killing, capturing, besieging, and ambushing. It also includes a release condition: if the polytheists repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, they are to be allowed to go their way. The issue is not whether every Muslim scholar applied this verse with identical scope. The issue is that the verse itself does not read like a narrow defensive permission. Its stated endpoint is religious submission expressed through Islamic worship and almsgiving.

Modern apologists often answer that Quran 9:5 addressed specific treaty-breakers. There is a contextual basis for saying that Surah 9 includes treaty matters. Yet that observation alone does not settle the legal meaning that classical jurists drew from the verse. A command can arise in a historical setting and still be treated by later law as a general rule. Biblical Christians understand this distinction. For example, Paul’s instructions to congregations had immediate first-century recipients, yet they remain authoritative where the principle applies. Likewise, Islamic jurists could recognize a historical setting while deriving general law from the wording and placement of the verse.

The Christian contrast is sharp. When Peter used a sword in defense of Jesus, Jesus rebuked the act. Matthew 26:52 says, “Return your sword to its place; for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Jesus then submitted to unjust arrest, not because He lacked authority, but because His mission was sacrificial, not militarized. His followers were later beaten, imprisoned, scattered, and executed, yet the apostolic answer was preaching, endurance, and moral separation from the world. Acts 5:29 records Peter and the apostles saying, “We must obey God rather than men.” Their resistance was obedience to Jehovah in proclamation, not armed religious conquest.

Quran 9:29 and the Subjugation of Jews and Christians

Quran 9:29 is even more decisive for the question of whether jihad is merely defensive. It commands fighting those given the Scripture until they pay jizyah while humbled. This passage concerns Jews and Christians, not pagan treaty-breakers only. The endpoint is not simple nonaggression. The endpoint is payment of a poll tax under a subordinate status. That is why classical Islamic law developed the category of dhimmi, the protected non-Muslim living under Muslim rule with restrictions and obligations. The jizyah system was not merely a tax policy. It expressed a religious-political hierarchy in which Islam occupied the ruling position and non-Muslim communities survived under conditions of submission.

This is one reason Sharia Law cannot be treated as a purely private moral code. Classical Shariah includes public law. It addresses the status of non-Muslims, the authority of rulers, warfare, punishment, family law, inheritance, and religious boundaries. A modern secularized interpretation may try to reduce Shariah to prayer, fasting, charity, and personal discipline. But historically, Shariah has made comprehensive claims over society. Therefore, jihad within Shariah cannot be reduced to private self-improvement. It belongs to a structure of religious law in which Islamic rule is normative and non-Islamic rule is deficient.

The Bible gives no parallel command to the Christian congregation. Christians are never told to fight Jews, Muslims, pagans, atheists, or false teachers until they pay a religious tax and accept subordinate civic status. The apostles confronted false teaching by Scripture, reason, public proclamation, congregation discipline, and separation from corrupt practice. Second Corinthians 10:4 says, “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but powerful before God for the tearing down of strongholds.” Paul’s warfare was doctrinal and spiritual, not coercive. Ephesians 6:12 likewise says that Christians wrestle not against flesh and blood but against wicked spiritual forces. This does not make Christianity passive toward evil. It makes the means of Christian mission different from the sword.

Quran 8:39 and Fighting Until Religion Belongs to Allah

Quran 8:39 commands fighting until fitnah is gone and religion belongs to Allah. The term fitnah can be interpreted in more than one way, including persecution, disorder, temptation, or unbelief depending on context and interpreter. Modern apologists often choose “persecution” and argue that the verse means Muslims fight only until oppression ends. Yet many classical interpretations connected the verse to the removal of unbelief or religious opposition so that Allah’s religion prevails. Even if one grants that persecution is included, the phrase “religion belongs to Allah” carries a broader public meaning. It is not merely a call for safe private worship. It points toward religious dominance.

The practical question is simple. If the verse only meant, “Fight until Muslims are no longer attacked,” then the stopping point would be the end of aggression. But the language moves beyond the cessation of attack to the establishment of religious supremacy. In combination with Quran 9:5 and Quran 9:29, the legal trajectory becomes clear: fighting may be defensive when Muslims are attacked, but it is not limited to defense. It can be directed toward the removal of obstacles to Islamic rule and the subordination of non-Muslim communities.

Biblical Christianity has a radically different doctrine of mission. Matthew 28:18–20 records Jesus commanding His followers to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to observe all He commanded. The command is universal in scope but noncoercive in method. The nations are to be discipled by proclamation, teaching, repentance, faith, and obedience to Christ. No apostle interpreted the Great Commission as permission to raise armies, impose taxes on unbelievers, or compel external conformity. The apostolic congregation expanded through preaching, moral courage, and willingness to suffer. That fact is not accidental; it flows from Christ’s own teaching and example.

The Hadith and the Command to Fight the People

A well-known hadith reports Muhammad saying that he was ordered to fight the people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s messenger. This report is accepted in the most authoritative Sunni collections. Muslim scholars have discussed its scope and application, especially in relation to People of the Book and jizyah, but the statement has played an important role in the doctrine of jihad. It reinforces the Quranic pattern in which fighting is tied to religious confession and submission, not merely repelling an invader.

This matters because Islam is not built on the Quran alone in the way Protestant Christianity confesses Scripture alone. Sunni Islam relies on Quran, Sunnah, scholarly consensus, and analogical reasoning. Sunni Islam treats Muhammad’s words, actions, and approvals as legally significant. Therefore, a discussion of jihad cannot honestly ignore the hadith. The Quran gives commands; Muhammad’s example and reported sayings supply application; jurists then systematize the law. The resulting doctrine is not an invention of modern critics. It is the historical product of Islam’s own sources.

Christianity rests on a different authority structure. The apostles wrote under inspiration by the Holy Spirit, and their writings complete the Christian Greek Scriptures. Jude 3 speaks of “the faith which was once for all delivered to the holy ones.” Galatians 1:8–9 warns against any contrary gospel, even if preached by an angel. This is directly relevant to Islamic claims, because Islam presents a later message that denies the Sonship of Christ, denies His execution on the cross, rejects His saving sacrifice, and replaces the apostolic gospel with submission to Muhammad’s revelation. The question Do the Quran and Muhammad Affirm or Reject the Bible is therefore not a side issue. It is central. If the Quran contradicts the apostolic witness about Christ, then it cannot be revelation from Jehovah.

Offensive Jihad as a Communal Obligation in Classical Law

The four major Sunni schools—Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali—historically recognized offensive jihad as a communal obligation when conditions were met and authority was properly constituted. The details differed across schools, but the basic category was real. Classical manuals discussed campaigns initiated by Muslim rulers, truces with non-Muslim powers, distribution of spoils, treatment of captives, and the status of conquered peoples. Such discussions are unintelligible if jihad means only self-defense. A legal system does not develop elaborate rules for expansion, tribute, and subordinate populations if its doctrine is limited to repelling immediate aggression.

The distinction between individual obligation and communal obligation also matters. Defensive jihad could become individually obligatory when Muslim lands were attacked. Offensive jihad, however, was typically treated as a communal obligation, meaning that the community fulfilled the duty when a sufficient number participated under legitimate authority. This framework allowed Islam to maintain jihad as a standing religious-political duty without requiring every individual Muslim to fight at every moment. That is precisely why the doctrine can be described as enduring even when not constantly active. It belongs to the structure of Islamic law.

The categories Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb further illustrate the matter. Dar al-Islam refers to the abode of Islam, where Islamic rule prevails. Dar al-Harb refers to the abode of war, lands outside Islamic rule. Jurists also developed intermediate categories, including lands under treaty, but the basic distinction reveals the worldview. The world is divided according to submission or non-submission to Islamic authority. Under that system, peace may be temporary, treaty-based, or pragmatic, but the ideal remains the spread of Islamic rule. That is not the same as the New Testament vision of Christians living as aliens and strangers in the present world while bearing witness to Christ.

Early Islamic Expansion and the Historical Pattern

The rapid expansion after Muhammad’s death is historically significant. Within a century, Muslim armies moved far beyond Arabia into the Levant, Egypt, Persia, North Africa, Iberia, and toward Central Asia and India. These campaigns cannot all be explained as immediate self-defense against attackers at Medina. Empires often have political, economic, tribal, and strategic motives, and Islamic expansion was no exception. Yet Muslim historians and jurists did not generally treat these conquests as an embarrassment to be explained away. They were frequently understood as the outworking of Islam’s divinely sanctioned mission.

This does not mean every Muslim soldier was equally devout or every battle was fought from pure religious motive. Human beings are imperfect, and political ambition often mixes with religious language. Nevertheless, the theological framework gave religious legitimacy to expansion. Lands conquered by Muslim armies were incorporated into Islamic rule; non-Muslims could be converted, subdued under tax, displaced, or otherwise brought under the new order depending on place and period. The pattern matches the doctrine better than the modern peaceful-defense narrative does.

The Christian should be ready for a common objection: “What about the wars of Israel in the Old Testament?” The answer must be historical-grammatical. Jehovah gave ancient Israel specific commands tied to a specific covenant people, a specific land, and specific acts of judgment upon nations whose wickedness had reached its limit. Genesis 15:16 shows that the judgment on the Amorites was not arbitrary but connected to accumulated wrongdoing. Deuteronomy 9:4–5 explicitly says Israel did not receive the land because of its own righteousness but because Jehovah was judging the wickedness of those nations and fulfilling His promise. Those commands were not given to the Christian congregation as an ongoing mandate to conquer the world. After Christ’s death and resurrection, the apostolic mission is proclamation, repentance, baptism by immersion of believers, and teaching obedience to Christ. The church has no divine command to replicate Joshua’s conquest.

Why the Peaceful-Defense Narrative Persuades Many Modern Readers

The peaceful-defense narrative often persuades modern readers for several reasons. First, many non-Muslims know little about the Quran’s chronology and assume all religious texts operate like a simple book of moral sayings. Second, many Muslims living in non-Muslim societies naturally emphasize passages that support coexistence, neighborliness, and civic peace. Third, Western audiences often confuse personal Muslim behavior with Islamic doctrine. If a Muslim coworker is kind and nonviolent, they conclude Islam itself must be noncoercive. But personal conduct and doctrinal sources are distinct questions. A person may be better than his theology in practice, just as another person may behave worse than the teachings he claims to follow.

Fourth, modern apologetics often redefines jihad in purely internal terms. The phrase “greater jihad” is used to refer to spiritual struggle against one’s lower desires, while military jihad is pushed into the background. Even if one grants the value of moral struggle as a concept, that does not erase the legal tradition of armed jihad. A fair comparison would be this: Christians believe believers must struggle against sin, but no one would claim that Christian moral struggle cancels every New Testament command about preaching, baptism, congregation discipline, or public witness. Likewise, a Muslim’s inward striving does not cancel the historical legal meaning of jihad.

Fifth, many people fear being accused of hatred if they ask hard questions about Islamic texts. Christians must not hate Muslims. They must not mistreat them, mock them as persons, or speak with cruelty. But love of neighbor includes truth. Leviticus 19:17 commands honest reproof rather than hatred in the heart. Ephesians 4:15 speaks of “speaking the truth in love.” A Christian who refuses to examine jihad honestly is not being loving. He is surrendering clarity.

The Biblical Doctrine of Peace Is Not Pacifist Sentimentality

Christianity teaches peace, but not sentimental weakness. Jehovah is righteous, and He will judge the wicked. Romans 13:1–4 recognizes the civil authority’s role in bearing the sword against evildoers. That passage concerns government’s responsibility to punish wrongdoing, not the church’s commission to spread faith by force. Christians may debate particular questions of statecraft, law enforcement, and national defense, but the congregation as congregation has no sword-mission. Its weapons are the Word of God, prayer, moral discipline, evangelism, and endurance.

Jesus pronounced blessing on peacemakers in Matthew 5:9, but He also warned that allegiance to Him would bring division in households where some reject the truth. Matthew 10:34 does not authorize violence; it warns that the message of Christ exposes loyalties. Peace with God through Christ does not mean peace with falsehood. John 14:6 records Jesus saying, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” That exclusive claim cannot be blended with Islam’s denial of the Son and the cross.

The question Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God becomes unavoidable here. The Bible reveals Jehovah as the Father Who sent His Son, the Son Who gave Himself as a sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit Who inspired the written Word. Islam denies the Father-Son relation, denies that Jesus is God’s Son in the biblical sense, denies His execution as the saving sacrifice, and denies the tri-personal nature of God. These are not small differences in vocabulary. They are contradictions at the center of revelation and salvation. First John 2:23 says, “No one who denies the Son has the Father. The one who confesses the Son has the Father also.”

The Role of the Holy Spirit and the Written Word

The Christian response to Islam must be governed by Scripture, not private impressions, emotional anger, or cultural fear. The Holy Spirit guided the writing of Scripture, and Christians are guided today by the Spirit-inspired Word. Second Peter 1:21 says, “For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” This means Christian apologetics must proceed from what Jehovah has caused to be written. The believer does not need mystical impulses to answer Islam. He needs careful study, accurate definitions, biblical courage, and love for the lost.

The Bible’s inerrancy is also essential. The Inerrancy of the Bible means that Scripture is true in all that it affirms in the original writings. Since Jehovah cannot lie, His Word cannot contradict itself. Titus 1:2 says God “cannot lie,” and Psalm 119:160 says, “The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.” This provides a standard by which later religious claims must be evaluated. If a later book denies what Jehovah has already revealed through Christ and His apostles, the later book stands condemned by the earlier true revelation.

Islam’s doctrine of jihad therefore must be evaluated not only as a political or historical issue but as a revelational issue. A message that commands or legitimizes religious warfare for the expansion of a post-apostolic religious order cannot be harmonized with Christ’s command to make disciples by teaching and baptism. A system that subordinates Jews and Christians under jizyah does not reflect the apostolic mission. A prophet whose career becomes the legal model for religious warfare cannot be placed in the same category as Jesus Christ, Who gave His life for sinners and commanded His followers to preach repentance and forgiveness of sins in His name.

How Christians Should Answer Muslim Claims About Jihad

When a Muslim says, “Jihad is only defensive,” the Christian should answer with calm, specific questions. What does Quran 9:29 mean when it commands fighting People of the Book until they pay jizyah while humbled? What does Quran 9:5 mean when the cessation condition includes repentance, prayer, and zakah? What does Quran 8:39 mean when fighting continues until religion belongs to Allah? Which verses govern when earlier peaceful passages and later fighting passages appear to conflict? How did the major Sunni legal schools classify offensive jihad? Why did early Islamic expansion move so quickly beyond Arabia if the doctrine was purely defensive?

These questions are not insults. They are responsible apologetic inquiry. The Christian should not accuse every Muslim of wanting war. Many Muslims sincerely desire peace, and some have never studied classical jurisprudence. Others have inherited modern interpretations that soften or reject offensive jihad. The Christian should recognize that fact while still pressing the textual and historical issue. Personal sincerity cannot make a false doctrine true.

The Christian should also bring the conversation back to Christ. Islam’s deepest problem is not only jihad. Its deepest problem is its rejection of the biblical Jesus. The Quran’s denial of the cross overturns the heart of the good news. First Corinthians 15:3–4 says that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, and was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. Without Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection, there is no biblical salvation. Acts 4:12 says, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Therefore, the answer to Islam is not merely political critique. It is the proclamation of Jesus Christ as the crucified and risen Son of God.

The Direct Answer to the Title

The Quran’s doctrine of jihad, read through the later Medinan passages and the classical legal tradition, cannot honestly be reduced to peaceful defense. Defensive fighting is certainly present in Islamic sources, and Muslims under attack have historically appealed to that category. Yet the Quran and classical Islamic jurisprudence also contain a doctrine of offensive jihad directed toward the expansion of Islamic rule, the subjugation of non-Muslim communities, and the public dominance of Allah’s religion as Islam defines it. Quran 9:5, Quran 9:29, and Quran 8:39 are central because they attach the end of fighting to religious and political outcomes rather than merely to the end of aggression.

Therefore, the peaceful-defense narrative is a modern selective presentation, not the full doctrine. The more accurate statement is that classical Islam permits defensive jihad and also recognizes offensive jihad under proper authority as a communal obligation. This does not mean every Muslim today supports such doctrine. It does mean that the doctrine is not an anti-Islamic invention. It is rooted in the Quran’s later warfare texts, Muhammad’s model, hadith reinforcement, and the legal reasoning of the major Sunni schools.

Biblical Christianity stands in direct contrast. Jesus Christ did not command His followers to conquer lands, impose taxes on unbelievers, or spread the faith by military force. He commanded proclamation, repentance, baptism, teaching, endurance, and love of neighbor. His kingdom is not advanced by the sword. His servants bear witness to the truth, trusting Jehovah’s written Word and awaiting Christ’s return before the 1,000-year reign. The Christian answer to jihad is not fear, hatred, or compromise. It is clear exegesis, historical honesty, faithful evangelism, and unwavering allegiance to Jesus Christ, the only way to the Father.

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EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).

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