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  1. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    No one who tortures human beings loves Christ. The one whom you teach others to believe lied.
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    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...
  3. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    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?
  4. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    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...
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    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...
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    The happy thread

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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    Was it also war when the Roman Empire persecuted - tormented, tortured, and killed Christians? If it wasn’t, what separates persecution of Christians by pagans from persecution of Christians by Muslims?
  8. Matthias

    God Commands Righteous Violence

    @RLT63 do you see a connection of Psalm 44:22 with Romans 8:36 and 2 Corinthians 10:4?
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    QUOTE for the day

    “Almost persuaded to be a Christian is like the man who was almost pardoned, but he was hanged.” - C.H. Spurgeon
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    @RLT63 @ScottA Is a man who believes in his heart that “Jesus lied” worthy of death? Is a man who believes in his heart that “Jesus lied” deceived? Does God want a man who believes in his heart that “Jesus lied” to change his mind and be saved? What do you want for such a man?
  11. Matthias

    Why did Jesus command his disciples to love their enemies?

    I hope he‘ll be along. Who more needs to hear and understand this than a man, any man, who believes in his heart “Jesus lied”?
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    @RLT63 does God not love his creatures? Does God not want all men to be saved? “[Jesus] said to them, ‘Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.’” (Mark 16:15, NABRE) Does that include or exclude Muslims / Islamic Jihadis?