So one is to close there eyes or ignore the fact that the state is justified according to the New Testament in using the sword to destroy those that are doing evil. No, that's a view of one who can't distiguish between the states responibilty and Christ's instuctions to us for our day to day lives. You prefer Christ's message of love. I prefer that as well but I will not do so while ignoring the fact that we have to live in the REAL world that unfortunately has evil and evil people. The Bible instructs us on this reality in the book of Romans and CLEARLY instucts the Christian on the states use of the sword. God didn't wish for sin to enter the world but through our actions it has. God does not ignore the reality and it is dealt with plainly for us all to understand. If the state gets a pass on protecting us and destroying those that do evil, who has that task? No, God requires the state to do the job on our behalf, no dancing around that, it's to plainly spelled out in Romans.

Really you know - you might find those links I added in the post above quite helpful in clearing up the 'mix up' that seems to be apparent here in your post.

Jan you tossed me an atheist site I've seen before. They put up a long list of supposed contradictions. Please pick one and let's have a go.

I added a link to an atheist site. You might have seen it before but you were obviously not aware that there can be responses from Christian sites on there as well - so I doubt that you have actually looked at it properly. You should you know - it is quite interesting  As for picking just one - try to do them all, one at a time of course,  there are quite a lot of them (some have already been responded to by Christians as you will see when you take a proper look)  ... though I would hope that you can give a better reply than the 'oh you have to read it in context' response.