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    QUOTE for the day

    “The highest goal of man is to become Christ-like.” - Richard Wurmbrand
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    Evil says “nope” to followers of Jesus and followers of Jesus say “nope” to evil. Everyone must be persuaded in their own minds. Those who think Jesus and the apostles taught the disciples that they must be willing to do bad things to their enemies (torturing them, for example) should repent...
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    The spirit of Vlad is incompatible with the spirit of Jesus.
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    Did Jesus and the apostles teach the disciples that they must be willing to do bad things to bad men? AI Overview - “No, Jesus and the apostles did not teach that disciples should do bad things to bad men; instead, they commanded followers to love enemies, avoid revenge, and never do evil to...
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    I’ve posted scripture, appealed to Church history, quoted one of your favorite Christian writers, and provided a massive amount of other Christian commentary to support my position and oppose yours. Jesus and the apostles neither taught the disciples to torture their enemies nor did they model...
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    Have you read Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s three volume work, The Gulag Archipelago? If not, I’d like to recommend it to you. ”If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years...
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    God wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:1-4). Making Vlad out to be a Christian role model harms efforts to evangelize Muslims (and non-Muslims). Any person who does that is fighting against God.
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    The happy thread

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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    That’s a non-Christian position; even a godless position. Jesus and the apostles didn’t teach the followers of Jesus to do bad things to bad men. You are teaching good men to do bad things to bad men. Jesus and the apostles taught the followers of Jesus - bad men made good - to treat bad men...
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    Visiting the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY today with my wife and grandson.

    Visiting the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY today with my wife and grandson.
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    God Commands Righteous Violence

    Beastlike. “Evil to evil is beastlike, and no Christian will indulge in it; but good for evil is Christlike, and we must practice it. - C.H. Spurgeon Vlad was evil; beastlike. You’re presenting Vlad as good; Christlike. You’re teaching others to practice beastlike thought and behavior, not...
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    The happy thread