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  1. Matthias

    Historian shares how Islam really began

    I don’t think there are many who are. Evangelizing Muslims. It sounds good. It sounds right. It sounds holy. But who is really doing it? David Paul is. Who is David Paul? I don’t know. I know very a little about him. I’ve just started following him on X / Twitter. He’s earned a doctorate...
  2. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    “Nathaniel answered him, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!’” (John 1:49, NET) No Muslim would say what Nathaniel said @Armour of God. Wouldn’t you agree? I say what Nathaniel said. That’s what I believe. That’s what I teach. That’s what I preach. I’m willing to die...
  3. Matthias

    Two lost sermons of Augustine discovered

    But I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
  4. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    That makes me wonder now about what you expect out of the people of Spurgeon’s time who sat under his preaching and pastoral care. @Armour of God presumably expects them to convert to Islam. (That’s ignorance.) @Wrangler knows better than that. (Good on him.) But you? There was no Ziglar. So...
  5. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    I’ve read a little written by Ziglar, and I liked some - definitely not all - of what I‘ve read. I routinely use his line “Better than good” whenever someone asks me how I’m doing or how it’s going. It always receives a reaction, whereas “Fine” doesn’t. Did you know that Ziglar read Spurgeon...
  6. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Thanks. I’m curious about one thing: will @Wrangler come to the defense of Spurgeon, one of his favorite Christian authors? What do you think? Will he or won’t he?
  7. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Thanks. I don’t agree with everything Spurgeon ever said. He’s not infallible, and of course he never claimed to be. He played an important role in my spiritual formation growing up and I still read him daily. What do you think about him?
  8. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Christians body slamming one of the greatest figures in the history of Christianity. I didn’t have that one on my BINGO card.
  9. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Then don’t read Spurgeon. One of the greatest voices in the history of Christianity is not in your league. He taught, he preached, he lived the teaching of Jesus and the disciples concerning how followers of Jesus are to respond to their enemies. He isn’t the only one who did. Find one of them...
  10. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this afternoon - “I always think of myself as Christian who hates Christianity.” https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2069451002638405913?s=61 Not a champion of Christianity. A champion of Christianity.
  11. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    You acknowledged that you haven’t read Spurgeon. The framing of your question is proof to those who have that you haven’t.
  12. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    This man is a pacifist, and his position on Christians killing their enemies is identical to mine. You won’t recognize him but you’ve already told us what you think about him -> he’s a supporter of lawlessness; he’s a Muslim sympathizer; he would rather see evil reign and Christianity die; he...
  13. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    I love your appeal to the parable of the sower. I’ve used it often myself; in threads pertaining to the Crusades … Post in thread 'Reason for The Crusades explained' Reason for The Crusades explained … as well as in threads unrelated to the Crusades. I agree. God will certainly sort it out...
  14. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    I heard you and I liked your post. I presume that you didn’t see that.
  15. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    My first thought upon reading this were the words of Arnaud Almaric, who said during the Albigensian Crusade - “Kill them all, for God knows which are his own.” A Catholic commander, a papal legate and inquisitor, ordering Catholic crusaders to kill all Catholics and non-Catholics residing in...
  16. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Did that solve the problem? No. A replacement was found. What happened to the replacement? Did that solve the problem? No. A replacement was found. What happened to … It’s an endless cycle of violence. The heart of a Muslim isn’t changed by killing Islamic military leaders. That hardened...
  17. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    I don’t know if he was or he wasn’t. What I know is that he isn’t. What does God think of that? Ezekiel 33:11. What do you think of that? What might have happened if Bob the Builder (post #165) had evangelized him?
  18. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    Have any “insane radical Islamists” ever been saved? If so, how did it happen? @Debp posted this video as the OP in one of her threads (“Reasons for The Crusades explained”). I keep coming back to it. The speaker has a ministry outside of what he does in the video. He evangelizes imprisoned...
  19. Matthias

    Crusades Began with Reconquista

    God wants all men to be saved. That includes Muslims. That doesn’t mean that all men - Muslim or non-Muslim - will be saved, but it does mean that the gospel of peace has to be offered to them. That’s not the role, the mission, of state government. That’s the role, the mission, of the followers...