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“If afflictions drive us nearer to Christ, the Bible, and prayer, they are positive blessings.” - J.C. Ryle

“Remember, ‘Love your enemies’ does not mean ‘have no enemies.’ It means you hope for their repentance even while you resist their evil.” - Dale Partridge If the pastor is right, killing your enemies to resist their evil isn’t loving your enemies. Dead enemies are unable to repent. Hoping that...

“Reading slowly through the Psalms is always good for the soul.” - Philip Nation

Are you associated with any of these fringe groups @Wrangler? Does whatever church you are associated with - I invite you to name the church - officially endorse your “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill“ teaching? Are they aware that you are publicly teaching this to...

https://christiansforsocialaction.org/resource/whose-side-is-jesus-on-faith-war-nationalism/

Christian nationalism is a spiritual disease. It causes Christians to rationalize killing fellow Christians, as well as non-Christians. Teaching “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill - you are leading poorly instructed Christians to destruction. I live under New...

Imagine this, if you will. The next time you attend a church service your pastor preaches a sermon where he tells you this: “It is your duty as a follower of Jesus to go out and put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” Kill your enemies. Do it now.”

Do you see no difference in the way the Israelites lived and interacted with their enemies in the Hebrew Bible and the way Christians lived and interacted with their enemies in the New Testament? Consider this: Jesus brings a new way of living. The NT biblical instruction is not “put to death...

Would you say that it is a sad thing to see Christians living under Roman rule for centuries until the time of Constantine? Do you think they had “Satan’s boot on your throat”?

“Books turn ordinary rooms into worlds.” - Neil Gaiman

Christians Killing Christians How can Christians be persuaded not to kill their non-Christian enemies as long as Christians view one another as enemies who may be killed? Christians killing Christians. It ought not to be so. Christians killing Christians. Until Christians become persuaded...