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I rely upon the whole counsel of scripture. God has an authorized agent for using the weapons of the world in responding to evil. Romans 13.

The wise know that there is a time to speak and a time to remain silent. I’ve answered those questions many times already. I call on @Wrangler to be my witness to the fact.

Those who love, believe and obey the teaching of Jesus and the apostles don’t use the weapons of the world.

@Wrangler refused to answer these - and many, many other - questions. “No matter the subject, it is telling when people refuse to answer questions. It reveals they know their position cannot hold up to scrutiny but are emotionally invested in that position, which is a form of IDOLATRY. The...

What I peddle - the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15) - doesn’t cause mental health problems. I’m glad to see you posting again.

“If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality; I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.” - Richard Cecil

Not all who say they are part of the body are. The body I’m part of, for one thing, doesn’t use the weapons of the world. It is persecuted by bodies which do.

You’re right. ”You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” That’s the teaching of @Wrangler and his concealed identity church. Think about it. He truly believes that all of the followers of Jesus - which of course includes the apostles - were commanded by Jesus to carry...

“The Crusades: Holy War’s Unholy Reality Nothing illustrates medieval Christianity’s contradictions better than the Crusades. Between 1095 and 1291, Western Christians launched multiple military campaigns to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control. Why Crusade? Pope Urban II launched the...

The followers of Jesus should stand against evil in the same way that Jesus and the apostles stood against evil. Follow their example. It isn’t evil. It’s what the church did prior to Constantine. (And some Christians did during and after those days - and were persecuted for it.)

You don’t support the violence that was done by the crusaders? You don’t want to see more violence done to Muslims? To Jews? To Christians? You aren’t proud of what the crusaders did? I’m thankful for everything that God has done for me, for everything God is doing for me, and for everything...

Consider this. What they are doing works to our advantage. I want people to see and hear what they approve and teach. I want people to see that they don’t practice what they teach. I want to set that side by side with what the Messiah taught and practiced. I want people to choose between the...

Obviously not. Speaking for myself, I’ve never wanted Christianity to go extinct at any time in the past, nor at any point in the future. And it never will. Thank God.

“Pope Benedict, leading a global inter-religious meeting, acknowledged on Thursday ‘with great shame’ that Christianity had used force in it long history as he joined other religious leaders in condemning violence and terrorism in God’s name. … ‘Violence never again! War never again! Terrorism...

Jesus, the apostles and the disciples - for the first three centuries of Christian history - weren’t anything at all like the pope and the crusaders. The ethical teachings of Jesus were not accurately reflected in the ethical teachings of the pope.