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Thank you. I wholeheartedly agree with your conclusion. “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill” is a false teaching. It comes from the evil one, not from Jesus and the apostles. It has to be opposed by followers of Jesus.

@Riven. You’ve seen this drawing before. What you’re looking at is one Christian trying to rescue another Christian. He succeeded. The Christian who rescued the drowning Christian was an enemy of the state; a prisoner of the state who had escaped from prison. The Christian who was rescued...

What, or who, should you pray for more than you do?

This sounds to me like you‘re saying that you would seek revenge on Christians who would kill or wound your ”real” family in a wartime setting. Is that what you are saying? If it is, Jesus and the apostles teach that the followers of Jesus must not do that. Vengeance belongs to, and must be...

The issue of Christians killing their enemies. I had mentioned that Christians killing Christians and Christians killing non-Christians is an important issue for me, and you responded, “likewise.” *** A. Christians as an enemy of Christians. This is unnatural. Jesus said that what is done...

I’d really like to understand this. Why is it an important issue for you?

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed today - “This is how false teachers operate. 1. Claim God told you something. This puts the speaker in a perceived place of authority over Scripture. It leaves everyone in a state of utter helplessness to what they say. The (often) unspoken inference is...

Take a look at this photograph from the liberation of Auschwitz. What do you see? Soldiers from the USSR; an atheist government. Enemies of God. God’s ministers. This is Romans 13:4, as Paul would recognize and acknowledge.

With lethal force? So if that was your “real” family that was destroyed by the atomic bomb dropped by the United States, what kind of reprisal would you undertake? And against whom would you undertake it? The pilot and crew? The US military? The weapon manufacturer? Someone or something else?

Then Christians, I would say, shouldn’t do what Jesus doesn’t like.

“When you go through difficulty and you’re a Christian, you’re being conformed to the image of Jesus if you have the right attitude about it.” - Frank Turek

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed yesterday - “Bookworms, what’s one thing you do while reading that you know is slightly unhinged?” https://x.com/thebookishc/status/2085820498252832937?s=61 Mine: Every time I take a break from reading, no matter how many pages I’ve read, I calculate the...

I think I know what you mean when you say “real” - something like biological, natural, genealogical: mom, dad, brother, uncle, aunt, cousin, grandparent, etc. - but the distinction you’re making - one is real, the other is not, or is less - is something that doesn’t match with my worldview. My...