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You’re a troll. Why do you think Jesus told his disciples that when they saw Jerusalem surrounded they should flee to the mountains?

Good call. If you keep this up, you’ll soon be gone from the forum.

I have no intention of accepting his offer of sanctuary. I’m a primitive Christian. I’m actually saved, abiding in Messiah and not afraid of dying. If you’re dead set against me, then chastise me for standing against those armed with the weapons of the world without myself being armed with the...

In fact, an Imam in Atlanta told me to seek sanctuary in the mosque if / when people like you come to kill me.

Welcome to the forum, and no. I’m not defending Muhammad.

We should be prepared beforehand how to act if we see that time unfolding in our presence. The Lord does not lead us to use the sword against our enemies. Your mother did not use the sword against her enemy. You did not use the sword against your enemy. You acted like the Messiah and...

Christianity has drifted far from the Christianity of the apostles and the early Christians. The current of worldly violence has swept it into the thing which primitive Christianity deplores - and the devil is behind it.

The unitarian slaughterer of his enemies has it wrong: Christians who do not kill their enemies have not placed themselves on a moral high ground; they have been placed on the moral high ground by the Messiah. Christians, don’t slaughter your enemies; witness to them. Leave the slaughtering to...

“As the Bible says, ‘Because of you we are being killed all day long; we are regarded as sheep destined for slaughter.’” (Romans 8:36, NTFE) That was true in the days of the pagan Roman Empire. It is true in the days of Islam. It is true of faithful disciples through the centuries and will be...

@Hazelelponi offered me no new insights on Islam. If we want violent Christianity to act like violent Islam, then we want violence, not peace.

Roman Catholics are allowed by the Catholic Church to be conscientious objectors. The Crusaders, obviously, were not conscientious objectors. They were a ruthless Roman Catholic killing machine - and they used the sword to kill Muslims, Jews, and fellow Christians.

It isn’t “fun” standing against the worldly-minded unitarian. He has surrendered his conscience to Caesar. It is my responsibility, the moral responsibility of all who “accept and believe in the Scriptures,” to oppose him in this matter.

They obeyed Caesar whenever they could do so without violating the teaching and preaching of Jesus and the apostles. Would you say that they were “antiChristian” and “men in form and not in substance” for not wielding the sword against their enemies? That’s right. I myself worked (as a civil /...

The Messiah will put a stop to them when he returns. Until then, which is to say, while we wait for him - something which the unitarian pointedly said that he would not do and Christians must not do - what are disciples of Jesus supposed to be doing? *** For the record, no one should get the...

Good on your teachers. That is the fault of the teachers whom you listened to. In that regard, they didn’t do good. Shall we now act like the Muslims? The Crusaders did. Shall we now label those who refuse to kill their enemies “antiChristian” and “men in form but not in substance”? The...

You who say that Roman Catholics aren’t Christians and that the Crusaders defended Christian land: the Crusaders did not defend Christian land; they defended Catholic land. They did it with ferocity that matched and in some details exceeded that of the Muslims.

Thank you. The Crusaders whom you extol would have killed you (and possibly done worse than that to you before they did) and told themselves they were serving God in doing so. @Wrangler pointed out to his readers that they were men who did not witness. They were men who acted like their enemy.

@Hazelelponi would you please address the “give to Caesar [who was not a Christian] what belongs to Caesar without any regard for what Jesus and the apostles taught / teach disciples to do” argument made by the guffawing unitarian?

I made that point earlier, and often, in this thread. There was a time in historic Christianity when Christians weren’t the government; when Christians were persecuted by the government. It was during that time that the apostles wrote. It was the duty of the Roman government - as it was the...