God Commands Righteous Violence

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In this vid, Pastor Steve details disaster from Trump NOT being more violent in totally defeating the Iranian Islamic regime. This will lead to the Black horde of the apocalypse.

 

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I don't know about Vlad the Impaler, but I am good with reeducating Christian men who have for so long been feminized by society and even within the church.
Vlad the Impaler is notorious for impaling people by driving a long wooden stake up their anus until it comes out their mouth. If that's anyone's ideal of "masculinity", they really need to talk to a good psychiatrist. Freud would have a field day with that symbolism.
 

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Vlad the Impaler is notorious for impaling people by driving a long wooden stake up their anus until it comes out their mouth. If that's anyone's ideal of "masculinity", they really need to talk to a good psychiatrist. Freud would have a field day with that symbolism.
Did what was necessary to protect Christian Europe from Islamic Conquest. Do you prefer living under Sharia Law?
 

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“I love the Communists with all of my heart. Communists can kill Christians but they cannot kill their love toward even those who killed them. I have not the slightest bitterness or resentment against the Communists or my torturers.”

(Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ, p. 55)

@RLT63 do you have this love for your enemies? Does Jesus?

Are Muslims / Islamic Jihadis on the same level as godless Communists?

Wurmbrand story rewrite:

I love the Muslims / Islamic Jihadis with all of my heart. Muslims / Islamic Jihadis can kill Christians but they cannot kill their love toward even those who killed them. I have not the slightest bitterness or resentment against the Muslims / Islamic Jihadis or my torturers?

I -> Pastor Wurmbrand

I -> Jesus

Can you see Jesus in Pastor Wurmbrand?
No, he’s a better man than me
 
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Did what was necessary to protect Christian Europe from Islamic Conquest.
Do you think for a moment that Vlad the Impaler was motivated by a love for Christ?

I asked you and everyone listening: What motivates you? Are you motivated by a love for Christ? Or something else?
 
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No, he’s a better man than me

You’re an honest man, and that’s Christlike.

Wurmbrand had a personal experience that you and I haven’t had. I want to learn from his experience by reading about it rather than learn from the experience of personally going through it. The former has happened; the latter might happen. If the latter does happen, my faith (and my witness) will be severely tested. Will I suffer and die for my faith? You pointed out to me that the apostles did.

A few days ago I posted two quotes from Wurmbrand that have garnered no public reaction:

”A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only what he is willing to die for.”

”The highest goal of man is to become Christ-like.”

Wurmbrand experienced what Jesus experienced, just not as severely.
 

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Why do you think Jesus instructed his followers to treat their enemies in a way which David didn’t treat his?
The God of the Old Testament wasn’t really a love your enemies kind of guy
 

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Did what was necessary to protect Christian Europe from Islamic Conquest.

Catholic / Eastern Orthodox Europe. You’re neither Catholic nor Eastern Orthodox.

You’re an “end justifies the means” advocate. Jesus and the apostles aren’t. (And it should go without saying that Jesus and the apostles weren’t Catholic / Eastern Orthodox, but you’re loose with historical facts. So there it is.)

Do you prefer living under Sharia Law?

Do I prefer living under Sharia Law to living under Catholic / Eastern Orthodox rule?

I prefer living under the rule of none of them. I live under the law of Messiah.
 
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The God of the Old Testament wasn’t really a love your enemies kind of guy

The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. Same guy.

He hasn’t changed. Something has changed. What has changed?
 

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The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. Same guy.

He hasn’t changed. Something has changed. What has changed?
I know it’s the same God but He seems a lot different in the New Testament
 

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I know it’s the same God but He seems a lot different in the New Testament

But we know that he isn’t different. What is different is that the new creation has begun with the coming of the Messiah, and with that, a new way of living. (The life man was intended to live from the beginning.)

The Messiah has commanded us to live as he modeled it until he returns.

Something changes in the way his followers live when he returns. There is a piece of unfinished business, as it were. Think David.
 

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The God of the Old Testament wasn’t really a love your enemies kind of guy
I know it’s the same God but He seems a lot different in the New Testament
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Marcionism emerged in the early Christian church around 144 CE, founded by Marcion of Sinope, a wealthy shipowner and theologian. After arriving in Rome, Marcion was influenced by the teachings of Cerdo, a gnostic Christian. He proposed a radical theological framework that distinguished between the God of the Old Testament, whom he viewed as a vengeful creator (the Demiurge), and the loving God revealed by Jesus Christ in the New Testament."
 

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Marcion lives!

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"The Marcionite Heresy, founded by Marcion of Sinope in the 2nd century, posited a dualistic belief system that rejected the Old Testament and its God, viewing them as separate from the benevolent God of the New Testament.

Origins of Marcionism

Marcionism emerged in the early Christian church around 144 CE, founded by Marcion of Sinope, a wealthy shipowner and theologian. After arriving in Rome, Marcion was influenced by the teachings of Cerdo, a gnostic Christian. He proposed a radical theological framework that distinguished between the God of the Old Testament, whom he viewed as a vengeful creator (the Demiurge), and the loving God revealed by Jesus Christ in the New Testament."
No, it’s the same God. Just seems different