When I think of love I like to think of how a mother would love her child. A good mother would lay her life down for her child. I mother that loves her child would never kill her child.
There are different kids of love and that is certainly one of them however a child usually does not try to kill it's mother.
How about the love of a community? I like to think that a good cop loves the community enough to risk their life every day for it.
Here is another thought I would like to throw out to support my opinion... Are we to be Christ like? Should Christ have defended himself instead of allowing them to crucify him?
Although we are to strive to be Christ like we are unable to be like him in all aspects as we are not devine. The death of Christ was to serve a purpose. For this reason he should not have defended himself on the day that was appointed for him to die.
However the question should be, should he have defended himself before it was his appointed time? The answer is yes and he did take steps to ensure his safety. Consider the following.
Luke 22:35-39 And He said to them, "When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?" So they said, "Nothing." 36 Then He said to them, "But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. 37 "For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: 'And He was numbered with the transgressors.' For the things concerning Me have an end." 38 So they said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." And He said to them, "It is enough." 39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him.
Here's the context. Picture this. Jesus and his disciples have just had communion. They are about to go to a time of prayer in the garden. Jesus says these words to His disciples, and it's as if they are saying, "Look what we have with us, Lord. Two guns!" Jesus responds, "It is enough."
If you read commentaries on this passage, there are a number of questions which are not clearly answered. There are questions about the applicability of this passage, of the intent of Jesus, of the meaning of His response.
Whatever your interpretation of this passage, there are a few broad-stroke observations we can make about this passage.
Jesus expected them to have swords and anticipated a time when those without swords would need to acquire them.
Among eleven disciples, they did have two swords--in almost a 1:5 ratio.
Jesus expected them to carry the swords on their person as they traveled from the city to the garden prayer meeting.
It is difficult to make absolute claims beyond these observations, but the observations themselves have significance. Namely, among those closest to Jesus, some carried personal weapons in His presence with His consent to communion and to prayer meetings. We cannot make absolute claims as to the reasons, right or, wrong, for the carriage of these weapons. Perhaps it was in anticipation of trouble from the Jewish leadership. Perhaps it was protection against mere robbers. Paul in 2 Cor. 11:26 cites the "perils of robbers". Though there are questions we can't answer, we do know they possessed these weapons, that they carried these weapons, and that Jesus knew and consented. Furthermore, Jesus spoke of some time, present or future, when disciples would need to acquire personal weapons, even more urgently than garments.
Another thing to consider is our duty to preserve life includes our own life as we belong to God. Our bodies are His property and so we are not permitted to treat or destroy them as we please.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20American Standard Version (ASV)
19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
