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“The devil’s constant strategy is to seek to merge the church and the world so that the people of God lose their distinctiveness and be no longer ‘a city set upon a hill.’ The primary way of Satan to achieve this is to confuse what it means to be a Christian.” - Iain Murray Constantine marks a...

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning - “Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe. 632: Muhammad dies. 635: Muslims conquer the Christian city off Damascus. 636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch. 637...

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He isn’t a Muslim Apologist. To date, no Muslim Apologist has posted in this thread.

“Christian, if there is something God is withholding, it is because it is not a good thing for you right now.” - Michael Reeves

That was Spurgeon. This is your commentary on him.

No. Christ did not smite his enemies, nor did he throw evil people into fire. Yes. You are teaching people to be beastlike.

All of them. Then listen again to what he says about not being beastlike. The Muslims were beastlike. The Crusaders were beastlike. To be beastlike is to be like the world. Christians are not to be 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 Have you read Spurgeon @Wrangler? Have you @Armour of God? Have you really spent time reading about the Crusades? They were beastlike, not Christlike. My...

She rightly directed your attention to Romans 13. Read Paul again. Read the Ante Nicene Church Fathers.

”The Crusades began with a shout of ‘God wills it!’ and ended with a whimper of defeat. The concept of converting the world by the sword and fighting as an army of Jesus Christ had led to three hundred years of strife and bloodshed. Armies were regularly gathering under the banner of...

This is what you‘re defending @Wrangler and @Armour of God. Don’t look away now. “The result was horrifying. As many as fifty thousand were sold into slavery. More died of starvation. Still others were defeated in their vain attempts to fight. One author recorded: ’About the time of Easter...

It couldn’t get any worse than that, could it? “Yet the darkest hour in Christian history could have been 1212, when Rome allowed the launch of the Children’s Crusade. In a small village near Vendome, France, a twelve-year-old boy named Stephen believed he received a vision. Jesus Christ was...

“The three subsequent Crusades accomplished nothing more than the further blurring of the original purposes for which the Crusades were called and any distinction between Christian and nonbeliever. In the Fourth Crusade (1200-1204), the Roman forces actually attacked Byzantine Christians at...