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conduct- such as cop-killing, prostitute-bashing, or other
criminal behavior, no Bible-bashing believers, no Bible
thumpers, no radical extremists killing in the name of God,
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no abortion clinic stalkers.
As Mark Hayse argue the FAQ weakly differentiates
between spiritual and physical warfare, between sanitized
and gratuitous violence, for example, FAQ declares,
“Christians are quite clearly taught to turn the other cheek
and to love their enemies.
It is equally true that no one should forfeit their lives to
an aggressor who is bent on inflicting death. Forgiveness
does not require absolute defenselessness.”
Ironically, the FAQ goes so far as to imply that
occasional killing is necessary, though undesirable. It reads,
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“unnecessary killing will result in lower Spirit points.”
To succed in Left Behind: Eternal Life, the player must
accumulate large quantities of spirit points. However spirit
point slowly decrease in time so to maintain a high level of
spiritual points the player must frequently press the Pray
key, that way a unit can belong to God if it has big amount
of spiritual points, indicated by a green bar, or it can belong
to evil if it has a loe amount of spiritual points, indicated
buy a red bar. Recruiting and training are the aswer to the
practices of personal evangelism and discipleship.
Through the gameplay, the player can scan the city for
neutrals. Neutrals are people with a grey bar and they
don’t belong to God or evil.
A successfully recruited neutral will flash with divine
power, granting a new uniforme, if player shoots a neutral
by accident, his spirit points will drop dramaticaly.

1. http://www.eternalforces.com/faq.aspx, September 9, 2010.
2. Hayse, 2010, pp. 3-4.