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Southern Baptist preachers are Christians. See church history. You don’t have any idea about what God is or isn’t telling the president to do. Neither do I.

Me? No. For some, let‘s take Tertullian for example, it would have been. He yearned for martyrdom but didn’t experience. If you haven’t read him, you should. His reverence for the martyrs is spectacular. We also find it in the writings of other ECF’s. Nukes haven’t been used against Iran. The...

I understand that this will be a minority opinion among non-trinitarians, but here goes. Geronimo. Something I learned as an adjunct theology professor: It isn’t necessary for non-trinitarians to speak against trinitarianism. (And, unsurprisingly, it isn’t well-received by trinitarians when it...

“Jesus himself stood in the tradition of Jewish monotheism, more exactly, of Palestinian early Judaism. His thinking and acting were geared towards this One God by whom he felt himself to have been sent and to whom he felt close, so that - again following early Jewish practice - he called him...

@Riven. Does the spectacle of Christians killing fellow Christians give you a positive view of Christianity? Would you be more receptive to Christianity if Christians would kill more of their enemies?

https://truthout.org/articles/huckabee-suggests-trump-should-nuke-iran-follow-guidance-from-heaven/ Southern Baptist pastors aren’t Christians @Big Boy Johnson?

The wise part is listening to, believing, and obeying Jesus. His disciples are led to the slaughterhouse like sheep. That’s not love. That’s hope. You aren’t loving them as you’re killing them. If nuclear weapons are used against Iran, Christians will be killing fellow Christians. I won’t...

“Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, just as I do; and as Christ’s soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in worldly affairs, for then you cannot satisfy the one who has enlisted you in his army. Follow the Lord’s rules for doing his work, just as an athlete...

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” - Jimmy Carter, The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture ”Do not repay evil with evil.” (1 Peter 3:9) The Messiah...

https://www.hudson.org/religious-freedom/good-news-iran-million-new-christian-believers-lela-gilbert “Meh. Let’s nuke ‘em.” There is, after all, precedent for it in Christian history. The Messiah understands that sometimes his disciples must kill one another. Doesn’t he?

Being wise and harmless doesn’t equal killing your enemies. Being wise and harmless equals loving your enemies. These peoples’ hearts are hardened.

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.“ (Matthew 7:12, NASB) Jesus set and lived the standard as an example to his disciples. My advice. Treat your enemies the same way that Jesus treated his. The apostles did...

Proposition: “The apostles acted like everyone else did to protect themselves.” Follow-up. ”Some Christians did not take up swords.” Evaluation. Everyone else did not use swords to protect themselves. Conclusion. The proposition is undermined.

What I wrote in the post is complete and utter nonsense. That was the point. Wait a minute. You told me earlier that they carried swords and that it didn’t do them much good. Why didn’t it do them much good? And why did Jesus instruct them to do something which wouldn’t do them much good?

So let’s look again at what Paul said and did. If your suggestion has merit we should find him brandishing his sword and killing his enemies, shouldn’t we? They did. You should look into it sometime. It’s being discussed because it has been suggested that Jesus instructed his disciples to...