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“Reading slowly through the Psalms is always good for the soul.” - Philip Nation

Are you associated with any of these fringe groups @Wrangler? Does whatever church you are associated with - I invite you to name the church - officially endorse your “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill“ teaching? Are they aware that you are publicly teaching this to...

https://christiansforsocialaction.org/resource/whose-side-is-jesus-on-faith-war-nationalism/

Christian nationalism is a spiritual disease. It causes Christians to rationalize killing fellow Christians, as well as non-Christians. Teaching “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill - you are leading poorly instructed Christians to destruction. I live under New...

Imagine this, if you will. The next time you attend a church service your pastor preaches a sermon where he tells you this: “It is your duty as a follower of Jesus to go out and put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” Kill your enemies. Do it now.”

Do you see no difference in the way the Israelites lived and interacted with their enemies in the Hebrew Bible and the way Christians lived and interacted with their enemies in the New Testament? Consider this: Jesus brings a new way of living. The NT biblical instruction is not “put to death...

Would you say that it is a sad thing to see Christians living under Roman rule for centuries until the time of Constantine? Do you think they had “Satan’s boot on your throat”?

“Books turn ordinary rooms into worlds.” - Neil Gaiman

Christians Killing Christians How can Christians be persuaded not to kill their non-Christian enemies as long as Christians view one another as enemies who may be killed? Christians killing Christians. It ought not to be so. Christians killing Christians. Until Christians become persuaded...

“Imagine Christians in one country believing it was their biblical duty to fight in a war against Christians of another country. And imagine that those on both sides of the war believed God wanted them to kill Christians on the other side of the conflict and backed this up with Scripture? That’s...

(“The Spirit of Wisdom” sketch by Edmund J. Sullivan)

“Lock your phone, unlock a book.” - anonymous

“It is often better to be silent than to talk to the wrong listener.” - Franz Kafka

“A home library is a quiet gift to yourself.” - Haruki Murakami

I don’t trust AI but I just used it to ask: “Is there any church in the world that teaches “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill?” AI replied: “Based on current search results, there is no major, mainstream church denomination in the world that officially teaches ‘You...

The linked Lifeway research survey is getting a little long in the tooth now but it reveals that in 2020 many pastors and their congregations had never heard of the “You are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill” teaching. They stand falsely accused of not following Jesus by the...