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  1. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Since the Crusades were a Catholic affair, it makes sense that we should turn to Catholic sources to read about them. This Catholic source does a good job describing the atrocities committed by the Crusaders. https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/what-really-happened-during-the-crusades/ P.S. Had...
  2. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “We do not use the weapons of the world.” - Paul The Muslims did. The Crusaders did. The Byzantine Christians did. What Paul taught on the matter made no difference to them. It makes no difference to those who urge us to emulate their action. While others say in effect, “Boo that man; it’s...
  3. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Review again the atrocities which you are defending as good. Civilization is doomed. Why? Because it depends on man, not on God and Messiah.
  4. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    We can do that. I’m sure AI would give us a decent summary of them. Educating others.
  5. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    The Crusaders lived by the sword and died by the sword. Jesus didn’t command them to do it. Brave Catholics defended the Western Empire and killed the brave Byzantines of the Eastern Empire, as well as Jews - who did what to them exactly? - and Muslims. You are like them. AI provided a...
  6. Matthias

    The happy thread

  7. Matthias

    The happy thread

  8. Matthias

    The happy thread

  9. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    As @Wrangler rightly said, the Crusaders weren’t witnessing. They were returning evil for evil and, in some cases, evil for good -> the exact opposite of what the Messiah’s disciples are instructed to do.
  10. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    In your opinion, is Catholic religion the true religion? Is it the Messiah’s religion? Could you be persuaded to do what the Crusaders did?
  11. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    The AI overview of the Crusades is reasonable but invest the time to read and study the history of the Crusades for yourself. It is Catholic history. It isn’t a history to be proud of. It isn’t a history to be repeated. It isn’t a history that is compatible with the Messiah’s teaching. It isn’t...
  12. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    For the second time today, AI offered me an overview; this time when I used a search engine for “The atrocities of the Crusaders” - “The Crusades were marked by numerous atrocities, involving massacres, pillaging, and other brutal acts committed against Muslims, Jews, and even fellow...
  13. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Playing with your grandchildren in their homes doesn’t prove anything. That’s right. The Crusaders treated their enemies the way their enemies treated them. They lived by the sword and perished by the sword. Even the pope apologized for the fourth Crusade. The Crusaders killed men, women...
  14. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    Go ahead and try to conquer the nations with your weapons of the world then. You won’t get far. ”Those who use the sword perish by the sword.” *** “Don’t wait for Jesus” is bad advice, readers. The disciple’s job until the Messiah returns is to evangelize the world, not conquer the world.
  15. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    * The devil whispers in my ear. * John 13:35 completes the Messiah’s thought.
  16. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    I’ve been thinking off and on this morning about my evangelism trips to Africa. I was robbed at gunpoint of a small amount of money by an armed Christian militia in Malawi. Yet at the same time, I stayed in a run down hotel in Blantyre that housed two UN soldiers, and a Malawi army unit sat...
  17. Matthias

    Do you believe this statement: "Jesus is YHWH", Yes or No?

    I’m not a fan of AI but when I typed “Is the Shema a trinitarian Creed?” in a search engine, an AI overview came back with the following response - “No, the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4 : ‘Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one’) is fundamentally a declaration of radical Jewish monotheism...
  18. Matthias

    Do you believe this statement: "Jesus is YHWH", Yes or No?

    Elohim is always plural in form but is almost always singular in meaning; always singular in meaning when used to describe Yahweh. He is one; not they is one. Elohim, plural in form, singular in meaning -> God, god Elohim, plural in form, plural in meaning -> gods The Shema is the Creed of...
  19. Matthias

    The happy thread