All eyes were on New Orleans. Many eyes, anyway. College football is one of America’s golden calves, and the 91st Sugar Bowl between UGA and Notre Dame had to be rescheduled due to the Islamic terrorist attack that has so far resulted in the murders of nearly 20 people and injuries of scores more. The investigations, as the saying goes, are ongoing.

Questions: How does any reasonable person believe that murdering people by driving a Ford truck, outfitted with ISIS flags, into crowds of civilians, is evangelism? How is this reasonable? Well, it isn’t, of course. It is evil. But what one cannot say, however, is that Islamists like this man don’t make their theology visible.

What the world will always have to grapple with is this: worldview is destiny. People’s theology is always evidenced by behavior. Belief is known by behavior. We reveal our theology; it invariably is made visible.

In Christianity alone, peace comes because God himself in the second person of the Trinity (Christ the Son) is our peace. Christ made peace by the cross:

5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:1-5 ESV).

It’s the work of God in Christ, you see: “and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross” (Colossians 1:20 ESV).

So long as men demand violence by sacrficing their sons on altars of human sin, rivers of blood will continue. When men repent and believe upon the Lord Christ and his cross, their hearts will be made new, and then they will begin to understand shalom/peace.