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You’ve acknowledged in conversation with others (post #1898) that you believe and teach “Jesus lied”. You’re fighting against the bodily resurrected Messiah, and that’s a fight that no one can win. The concealed identity church you attend hasn’t properly taught you. My advice to you as a...

Anyone who teaches that Jesus lied is opposed to Christ. @Wrangler is the spokesman on this forum for his concealed identity church. (The identity is concealed for a reason.) “Jesus lied” is coming from a dark place. IF the church I attended (and pastored for a while before I retired and moved...

I’ll get back to Saladin and the reeling crusaders shortly, but first this brief excursion back to the 4th century: From my X / Twitter “Following” feed this afternoon - “#OTD May 8, 303: Victor of Milan, a Christian soldier in the Roman army, was tortured and beheaded for refusing to renounce...

The crusader didn’t have time to talk to his enemy about Jesus Christ. He had more pressing business to carry out - killing his enemy.

“News of the capture of Jerusalem quickly reached Rome. Pope Alexander III called upon Emperor Frederick I, called Barbarossa, to enter into the Crusade. His army numbered in the tens of thousands, and as an aged veteran of the Second Crusade, Frederick was an able warrior. As his forces passed...

“In 1187, the unthinkable happened. The Muslim forces, united under the leadership of a strong battlefield general, once again captured Jerusalem.At the helm of the Islamic armies was Saladin, the sultan of Egypt and ruler of Damascus. Saladin called for a jihad against the Christians living in...

“In the summer of the next year, 1145, Eugene II ascended to the throne of Rome, and by the fall he called for a crusade against the new occupants of the city. He called on King Louis VII and the Gauls to lead the Crusade: … Once again, salvation was promised to the soldiers of God, and once...

“By the end of the Second Crusade in July 1148, the Christian armies were horribly divided, and the Muslim armies were gathering once again. Following the Crusade, the Church established Latin states throughout the Middle East, each with a king or ruler who was loyal to the Pope. In the summer...

“The victory caused the leadership of the Church at Rome to become increasingly inebreiated with power. Tragically, when victory comes at such an excruciating cost, it can rarely be duplicated. The subsequent Crusades, lasting until the beginning of the fourteenth century, illustrated the...

Be transparent. Name them. All of them.

Your judgement contains a fatal flaw: Jesus, the apostles and the disciples in the early centuries of the Christian movement didn’t kill their enemies and they don’t show “a total abdication of Christians burden to the weightier matters of the law, justice.”

“You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill” isn’t the teaching of Jesus and the apostles. It is a new requirement for discipleship emanating from a hidden identity church.

I’m cautious about estimates for the number of Muslims who convert to Christianity per year, and estimates vary widely. I’m linking an article that I just finished reading for your consideration @NayborBear. https://globalchristianrelief.org/stories/why-are-muslims-converting-to-christianity/

“The means by which the crusaders were victorious breached all boundaries of Christian ethics. It was their brutality that became legend, and subsequent generations of Europeans would assume that victory was perpetual. It was not.” (Christian Jihad, pp. 118-119) The crusaders “breached all...

In that case, you’ve reached a false conclusion on your own. I’ll say it one more time, just to make certain you didn’t misunderstand what I said: I’m not a Muslim apologist / sympathizer. I’m a primitive Christian apologist. The notion that I’m a Muslim apologist / sympathizer started with...