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“To me success has meant just two things: a good life for my family, and the money to buy books and continue the education of this wandering man.” - Louis L’Amour

Constantine doesn’t make anyone Christian.

Should Christians massacre their enemies? (Asking for Richard the Lionheart.) AI responds, “No, the central teaching of Christianity, particularly in the New Testament, is to love your enemies rather than massacre them. While the Old Testament contains accounts of God-ordained warfare and the...

When it becomes “difficult to distinguish between Christian and non-Christian” behavior, it‘s not something for Christians to support and celebrate @Wrangler @Armour of God @NayborBear. We should have learned this in Sunday School. We should have learned this at church.

Resuming now the story (with the memory of the massacre at Malmedy in World War II fresh in our minds) - “King Richard brought twenty-seven hundred Muslim men outside the city walls, and proceeded to have them slaughtered, one by one. A Muslim historian recorded the horror: ’The king of...

“Through the winter of 1191 and the spring of 1192, Richard laid siege to Acre, a city whete the Muslims were purported to be hiding the ‘true cross of Christ.’ Finally, in July 1192, the Muslims surrendered and promised to return the True Cross, two hundred thousand gold pieces, and two...

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” - Dale Carnegie

I was saving this for later but I’ll go ahead and post it here. It contains some good observations and ends with advice (“Read and study”) that warms the heart and puts a smile on the face of a retired Church History adjunct professor. “To the reader: Knowing that modern evangelicals understand...

Returning now to the Crusades, ”Frederick discovered this deceit in a letter from Sibylla, the former Queen of the Christains in Jerusalem. … Though Frederick would defeat the Turks at Iconium and thwart the conspiracy, he drowned in Armenia shortly thereafter. The crusaders had another...

@Armour of God if the list of names I’ve asked you to compile fails to include the name of the one who believes and is teaching others that “Jesus lied,” then you’re going to have some serious explaining to do. @Wrangler @NayborBear

You’ve acknowledged in conversation with others (post #1898) that you believe and teach “Jesus lied”. You’re fighting against the bodily resurrected Messiah, and that’s a fight that no one can win. The concealed identity church you attend hasn’t properly taught you. My advice to you as a...

Anyone who teaches that Jesus lied is opposed to Christ. @Wrangler is the spokesman on this forum for his concealed identity church. (The identity is concealed for a reason.) “Jesus lied” is coming from a dark place. IF the church I attended (and pastored for a while before I retired and moved...

I’ll get back to Saladin and the reeling crusaders shortly, but first this brief excursion back to the 4th century: From my X / Twitter “Following” feed this afternoon - “#OTD May 8, 303: Victor of Milan, a Christian soldier in the Roman army, was tortured and beheaded for refusing to renounce...

The crusader didn’t have time to talk to his enemy about Jesus Christ. He had more pressing business to carry out - killing his enemy.

“News of the capture of Jerusalem quickly reached Rome. Pope Alexander III called upon Emperor Frederick I, called Barbarossa, to enter into the Crusade. His army numbered in the tens of thousands, and as an aged veteran of the Second Crusade, Frederick was an able warrior. As his forces passed...

“In 1187, the unthinkable happened. The Muslim forces, united under the leadership of a strong battlefield general, once again captured Jerusalem.At the helm of the Islamic armies was Saladin, the sultan of Egypt and ruler of Damascus. Saladin called for a jihad against the Christians living in...

“In the summer of the next year, 1145, Eugene II ascended to the throne of Rome, and by the fall he called for a crusade against the new occupants of the city. He called on King Louis VII and the Gauls to lead the Crusade: … Once again, salvation was promised to the soldiers of God, and once...

“By the end of the Second Crusade in July 1148, the Christian armies were horribly divided, and the Muslim armies were gathering once again. Following the Crusade, the Church established Latin states throughout the Middle East, each with a king or ruler who was loyal to the Pope. In the summer...