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Thanks. That’s a good contribution to the conversation. James and John responded positively to the rebuke. We’re to be guided by the teaching and example of Jesus and the apostles, not by the teaching and example of our enemies.

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning - “Satan seeks to destroy God’s plan for humans as revealed in Gen 1-2. Every point is under attack in our day.” (David K. Bernard) https://x.com/davidkbernard/status/2082871844244242827?s=61 Vlad as Christian role model isn’t the answer. Vlad...

“Lt. Col. Dave Grossman was an Army Ranger, paratrooper, West Point professor, and is a military historian. Grossman’s book, ‘On Killing,’ was nominated nonfiction Pulitzer Prize. In that book, Grossman analyzes anecdotal material and official studies about soldiers’ behavior in battle and...

“Plant a truth in a man’s heart and leave it to work.” - R.A. Torrey

“Jesus lied” leads to “followers of Jesus must be willing to do bad things to bad men.” Cause and effect.

Proposition: Christianity teaches that followers of Jesus must be willing to do bad things to bad men. AI Overview - “That is incorrect; Christianity actually teaches the opposite. …” @Wrangler you are teaching the opposite of what Christianity teaches, and that is evil. Unless you repent...

“In the first centuries, Christianity flourished in North Africa. … The Christians of North Africa neglected just one duty: to win the Muslims for Christ. The result was that the Muslims invaded North Africa and uprooted Christianity for centuries. North Africa belongs to Muslims even now, and...

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

Evil says “nope” to followers of Jesus and followers of Jesus say “nope” to evil. Everyone must be persuaded in their own minds. Those who think Jesus and the apostles taught the disciples that they must be willing to do bad things to their enemies (torturing them, for example) should repent...

The spirit of Vlad is incompatible with the spirit of Jesus.

Did Jesus and the apostles teach the disciples that they must be willing to do bad things to bad men? AI Overview - “No, Jesus and the apostles did not teach that disciples should do bad things to bad men; instead, they commanded followers to love enemies, avoid revenge, and never do evil to...

I’ve posted scripture, appealed to Church history, quoted one of your favorite Christian writers, and provided a massive amount of other Christian commentary to support my position and oppose yours. Jesus and the apostles neither taught the disciples to torture their enemies nor did they model...

Have you read Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s three volume work, The Gulag Archipelago? If not, I’d like to recommend it to you. ”If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years...

God wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:1-4). Making Vlad out to be a Christian role model harms efforts to evangelize Muslims (and non-Muslims). Any person who does that is fighting against God.