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  1. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    You’re free to criticize Spurgeon. You think he’s wrong. I think he’s right, and applaud him. Note that Spurgeon and I differ in degree with the pacifism of the Quakers. @Wrangler told us that Spurgeon is one of his favorite Christian authors, but he declined to say why when asked. Romans 13...
  2. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    I “fanatically” promote peace, not evil. I’m a pastor. I teach, preach, and practice the gospel of peace. I think everyone who has followed our conversation is aware of that fact.
  3. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    I’ve commented elsewhere that I wage war on war. That’s not a contradiction. I don’t use the weapons of the world in waging the war against war. It is spiritual warfare. I wrote, for example, on August 17, 2024: “Waging spiritual warfare on physical war.” Spurgeon and I are very much alike in...
  4. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    You will surely know then that Spurgeon wasn’t a Quaker. (You also know that I’m not a Quaker.) Did Spurgeon agree with the pacifism of the Quakers? AI Overview had this to say about it - “Yes, Charles Spurgeon strongly agreed with the Quaker pacifist stance against war and militarism. He...
  5. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    In making that accusation against us, you’re making that accusation against Spurgeon. I question that you’ve actually read him. That he would be one of your favorite Christian authors is certainly ironic.
  6. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “Ours is battling for peace, and fighting for rest. We disturb the world to make it quiet,mand turn it upside down to set it right ... We have no sympathy with any other war, but count it an evil of the direst sort, let it be disguised as it may. Now with that caution, whatever I shall seem to...
  7. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    ”Catherine Booth, cofounder of the Salvation army, was a pacifist, as was Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of the most popular preachers of mid-nineteenth century Britain. ‘I always mourn to find a Christian soldier, for it seems to me that when I take up Christ Jesus, I hear one of His Laws: I say...
  8. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “We are up to the hilt advocates for peace, and we earnestly war against war. I wish that Christian men would insist more on the unrighteousness of war, believing that Christianity means no sword, no cannon, no bloodshed, and that, if a nation is driven to fight for its own defense, Christianity...
  9. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    “Never, never use the sword. Better a thousand times to die than for a Christian to kill his fellow.” - C.H. Spurgeon @Armour of God @NayborBear
  10. Matthias

    QUOTE for the day

    “A generation entertained by sin will eventually be destroyed by it.” - Scott Roberts
  11. Matthias

    The happy thread

    * The cheat sheet I should carry in the back of my Bible, in the highly unlikely event that I ever find myself in that predicament. *
  12. Matthias

    The happy thread

  13. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    It won’t be forgiven until those who are speaking against the Son of Man - and that is precisely what @Wrangler and the concealed identity church he represents is doing when he teaches others that “Jesus lied” - repent. I have greater concern for him and for you than you do.
  14. Matthias

    Reason for The Crusades explained

    New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Abridged Edition, p. 244. Look it up. I’ve quoted it frequently on this forum. Meanwhile, you ride with “Jesus lied.” That’s a very bad place to be. @Wrangler @Armour of God
  15. Matthias

    The good man that turned bad out of necessity

    Now that you’ve become a Christian, how do you answer those questions?
  16. Matthias

    The happy thread

  17. Matthias

    The happy thread

    * One more good reason to keep away from horoscopes. *