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There is no sufficient justification for disobeying the teaching of Jesus and the Apostles. Following the example set by Jesus, the Apostles, and the earliest Christians isn’t an “evil ideology,” nor is it ”lazy and cowardly abdication, complete abdication to DO JUSTICE.”

The early Christians didn’t respond to persecution in the same the way the pope did. Which example should we follow? I advocate for the one which aligns with the teaching and practice of Jesus and the Apostles.

“It is a grievous failure of those who claim to be the people of God when they not only fail to be a sanctuary for the traumatized but also create the need for one.” - Diane Langberg

Among other things, I’m a retired adjunct college professor and church history is, among other things, one of the subjects I taught. “Enough of this! Put away your sword.” Do you recognize the speaker of those words? I imagine that you do.

Tying this in with post #1750. His answer came in response to my counsel to wait for Jesus. I’m speaking as a 21st century representative of the pacifistic early church - “wait for Jesus”; @Wrangler is speaking as a 21st century representative of the later militaristic church - “no waiting...

“… by the time of Constantine the Church was giving explicit approval of warfare as a restraint of evil. So effusive was the Church in its praise that during the reign of Theodosius II (408-450), all pagans were purportedly discharged from military service and only Christians were permitted to...

It is the role and responsibility of the government, not the church, to control immigration.

“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” - C.H. Spurgeon

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning - “‘Feminism is just about choice’ ’feminism is good for women’ Also feminism: In The Second Sex (1949), de Beauvoir wrote: ‘No woman should be authorized to stay at home… Women should not be allowed that choice, precisely because if there is...

”Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19).

“Christian, prize thou the word, feed on the word, whether it be dished up in a sermon at the public or in a conference with some Christian friend in private, or in a more secret duty of reading and meditation by the solitary self.” - William Gurnall “Prize thou the word.” Why would a Christian...

“Make all your theological studies religious exercises.” - B.B. Warfield