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Yes. Someone quoted a few of them early in the thread. (See post #6.) Someone quoted him specifically early in the thread. (See again post #6.) They stand as early witnesses against the “you are not a follower of Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill” teaching, but that hasn’t persuaded...

Enemies of Jesus waging war on Jesus and his followers, his brothers and sisters, isn’t a difficult concept to imagine. The concept of brothers and sisters of Jesus - “I have called you friends“ (John 15:15) - waging war on Jesus and his brothers and sisters: easy to imagine or difficult to...

“Self-sufficiency is incompatible with the work of God in any age.”- Allen P. Ross

As I was thinking about your question, Matthew 25:40 came to mind. ”Then the king will answer them, ‘I‘m telling you the truth: when you did it to one of the least significant of my brothers and sisters here, you did it to me’” (NTFE). The general principle is what I’m looking at in the...

I’ve explained it to my readers. See my post on that issue. (No one asked me about it and no one responded to it when I raised it.) That’s false. I pay taxes just like (almost) everybody else does.

Looking back through the thread, the reasons for the Crusades was pretty much exhausted in the OP. If the only thing under discussion was the reasons for, the thread could have ended at post #5.

You would like for your casual reading audience to believe that what you’ve said here is true. It is a fact, not a theory, that the Crusades are a part of Church history. I’ve posted about that history and about other parts of church history. I haven’t excluded any part of church history, and...

If you truly aren’t sure, it’s because you’ve chosen to be ignorant. I’ve explained to my target audience why I‘m making those kinds of posts. For the first 300 years of Christianity, the followers of Jesus didn’t serve in the military. You should have verified that by now. Throughout history...

There is a lot to object to in your teaching. I’m not desperate, I didn’t appeal to authority (I’m particularly distrustful of anything written by AI; my admonition to everyone is carefully evaluate the content of what any authority says: “Read widely, deeply, thoughtfully, and critically”)...

We agreed that it is a couple of days ago. I know you remember that so you’re writing this for another purpose.