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Most early Christian writers, it would seem, regarded the state as necessary and even providential. They also believed that it out of necessity had to use force, even of a homicidal nature, in order to maintain itself and to have its laws respected. They then resolved their contradiction by...

I‘m prepared to die for the proposition that followers of Jesus must not kill one another. What would you say about this proposition: Unless you are prepared to kill for something that you firmly believe in, you really do not believe in it.

“The very fact that the Church was then seeking temporal power and dominion - and was gaining it - proves that it had allowed its own theology to be infected by non-Christian teaching.” (Jean-Michel, It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight, p. 186)

I’m not and no one should.

Writing against this doctrine of demons does much more to help them, and others, than doing nothing does.

I haven’t. I’m concerned these people. You obviously aren’t, and so you’ve done nothing to help them. ”You aren’t following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” That’s the devil talking. That is what you should be writing against, rather than writing against a pastor who is. Church...

It’s the verbatim teaching of a “Christian” member of this online community. A few “Christian” members have embraced it, which is tragic. What have you done to help them reject the doctrine? What have you done to warn others against it? The ”You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed...

The church was right until it was wrong.

The point of appealing to church history is: 1. It stands opposed to the demonic doctrine, “You aren’t following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill. 2. It demonstrates that the Christian teaching about war, violence, and the state shifted in the 4th century away from the teaching of...