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SHURF. Please see the parable of the sower for an explanation of the acronym. (I don’t think you need me to quote the verses in Matthew, Mark, and Luke but I will if you want me to.)

You aren’t hearing / understanding me. Among other things, I’m a retired minister of the lord Jesus Messiah. You may rest assured that I don’t hate you. My brothers and sisters don’t treat their enemies the way you treat yours.

That’s right.

I’m not your brother and your vision is impaired. If you read the Pope’s apology, it might begin to clear.

You aren’t interested in reading my conversion story @Armour of God (that’s perfectly fine) and I’ve learned everything about you that I wanted to know at this time. Thank you for the conversation. Good night.

I couldn’t care less about whether or not you respect me. It’s hard for me to believe that you really can’t see that there is a huge difference between the way the Crusaders defended themselves and the way a conscientious objector would defend himself. But here we are. The Pope publicly...

The Pope made a public apology. You can’t, and we both know why you can’t. It was removed, thank God.

You obviously didn’t read my story. Am I surprised? No.

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https://iol.co.za/news/world/2004-06-30-pope-regrets-crusade-of-800-years-ago/ Pope John Paul II didn’t share the sentiments of the “case closed” crowd, and it is their right not to agree with him on the matter. I’m not persuaded by them (and neither was the Pope.)

He is not my brother but, that salient point aside, I have taken the log out of my eye. The story of how, when, where and why that occurred is posted on the forum. I invite you to read it. From what little I’ve learned about you in the past 48 hours, I don’t think it would be of much interest to...

Those who oppose the teaching of Jesus and the apostles on how to treat enemies are determined to live and die by the sword -> to live as the world lives, not as Jesus, the apostles and the primitive Christians lived. “Do unto my evil enemy as my evil enemy has done or would do unto me” is a...

“You are not a follower of Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” Anyone who has read the Ante Nicene Church Fathers knows this assertion is obviously not at all what they believed. https://anabaptistfaith.org/early-church-fathers-on-war-violence-and-pacifism/ Keep in mind what the...

There are hundreds of books which dispel the false teaching of @Wrangler and company on this issue. One that I‘ve highly recommended to my students and to my readers over the years on the early church period is: I’ve quoted from it multiple times on the forum.