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@Riven, directly, Others, indirectly.

* Mark of the (library) beast *

* Avoid Louisville like the plague. *

“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.” (Genesis 6:11, NIV) This thread is a microcosm of it, as are many others. @Riven the Messiah is in the process of fixing it with his people. You haven’t caught the messianic vision yet. I’m living it, and want you to see and...

* Hey. Someone write that down. *

* I have daydreamed about using cows to replace my lawn mower. *

No. Good advice. Easy for a pacifist to follow. I haven’t fired a gun since 1978 or 1979. Squirrel hunting. Boyd County, KY. Didn’t get any. Obliterated a hornet’s nest. Ran for my life. Lived to tell the tale.

You set up the school scenario. Do you spend a lot of time at children’s schools? (I did, before COVID.) How close do you live to the nearest school? Are you a vigilante? Have you ever killed anyone?

We can’t do either one, because he was neither one. After all that we read about his mental fortitude in the Gospels, I don’t see him having an issue in this setting. There is nothing written in the Gospels that points to the Messiah being afraid of the dark. They weren’t clumsy. It was...

* I’m growing old but I’m nowhere near that old. *

@markalan has by now seen you and the expatriate lady in Italy say that you don’t own a gun. Did he make the argument against the two of you that he tried to make against me?

Scripture doesn’t say that. Your imagination is running away with you. There was no banana peel. It was dark. Jesus didn’t react the way that they expected him to. Someone steps back and … people fell.

You would kill followers of Jesus in a wartime setting. How do you think Jesus feels about that?

btw, the intruders in the movie were far out of range of the shotgun blast. It was impossible for his son and the basketball coach to have been struck by pellets.

I’m not retorting his post, readers. I will, however, take the opportunity once again to point you to the teaching and practice of Jesus and the apostles, the Apostolic and the Ante Nicene eras of church history. To that I would direct your attention to the peace churches and the persecution...