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  1. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    John Wesley was a preacher at the brink of failure and depression until a Moravian encouraged him, "Preach faith until you have it." - Peter Böhler. The awakened faith caused his ministry to go a long way. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of...
  2. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    I would rather read into a guy like Zig Ziglar... "A life of faith isn’t something you endure. It’s something you enjoy." In Confessions of a Happy Christian, Zig Ziglar shares his personal story of faith, purpose, and joy. Through honesty and humility, he reminds us that serving God doesn’t...
  3. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Charles Spurgeon... I can picture the results of believing like the guy as a society of depressed people waiting for whatever evil the devil would hand down to them!
  4. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    If I read into Baptist it is usually a Southern Baptist such as Zig Ziglar. I would have no motivation into reading into a frequently depressed guy such as Charles Spurgeon.
  5. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    I have no use in reading into a man who is frequently depressed. Charles Spurgeon quotes... * Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. * I find myself frequently depressed * I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself...
  6. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    "I have suffered many times from severe sickness and frightful mental depression seeking almost to despair" - Charles Spurgeon I am sorry... I have no interest in reading into the works of a frightfully depressed man. Fearing especially that I would turn out like the guy!
  7. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Are there any Charles Spurgeon's in Israel urging the entire society to lay down their arms and allow themselves to be slaughtered?
  8. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Lawlessness... But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. - Jeremiah 9:24 An old testament example of this was Job in...
  9. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    As far as I am concerned you support lawlessness...
  10. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Newsflash... The entire church is not a bunch of murderous thugs. However if a murderous bunch of thugs breaks into a mans house and threatens his family... I would not blame that householder for protecting that which is his by shooting every one of them.
  11. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    You are not taking the whole church picture into account. You need to learn to do this as each church age faced its own unique issues. Otherwise you can take one set of church issues from another age and imply the whole church as guilty.
  12. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Mixed reviews on the entire church... I believe the church movements as seven and I believe outlined in Revelation... 1. Messianic - Original church started by Peter 2. Martyr - Ten Roman persecutions as outlined in Foxes Book of Martyrs 3, Orthodox - Basically an Eastern movement 4. Catholic -...
  13. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Constantine tried escaping the evils of the time. How he did is debatable but he did his best. The world was about to be plagued by barbarians, The Huns, and The Mongols. 300 AD... Look out! Evil is on its way! Defend yourself or die!
  14. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    On reading this stuff its like... Newsflash! If you are non-Israeli it is also not OK to defend your lands.
  15. rockytopva

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    But... It is OK if Israel defends itself?
  16. rockytopva

    Do You Have to Go to Church to Be a Christian?

    Will you get an "atta boy" after living a life like that?
  17. rockytopva

    Do You Have to Go to Church to Be a Christian?

    24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the...
  18. rockytopva

    Is Christianity in the Bible?

    AI on Nit Picking... Nit-picking (or nitpicking) is the act of meticulously focusing on small, trivial, or unimportant flaws while ignoring the broader picture. People often use it to criticize others or as a coping mechanism in an attempt to control situations or mask feelings of anxiety.
  19. rockytopva

    Is Christianity in the Bible?

    Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. - 2 Corinthians 3:6 I would summarize this as.... These type of arguments kill... But the true Spirit gives life.
  20. rockytopva

    Is Christianity in the Bible?

    Lets study actual Bible... 25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: 26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first...