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As @Wrangler rightly said, the Crusaders weren’t witnessing. They were returning evil for evil and, in some cases, evil for good -> the exact opposite of what the Messiah’s disciples are instructed to do.

In your opinion, is Catholic religion the true religion? Is it the Messiah’s religion? Could you be persuaded to do what the Crusaders did?

The AI overview of the Crusades is reasonable but invest the time to read and study the history of the Crusades for yourself. It is Catholic history. It isn’t a history to be proud of. It isn’t a history to be repeated. It isn’t a history that is compatible with the Messiah’s teaching. It isn’t...

For the second time today, AI offered me an overview; this time when I used a search engine for “The atrocities of the Crusaders” - “The Crusades were marked by numerous atrocities, involving massacres, pillaging, and other brutal acts committed against Muslims, Jews, and even fellow...

Playing with your grandchildren in their homes doesn’t prove anything. That’s right. The Crusaders treated their enemies the way their enemies treated them. They lived by the sword and perished by the sword. Even the pope apologized for the fourth Crusade. The Crusaders killed men, women...

Go ahead and try to conquer the nations with your weapons of the world then. You won’t get far. ”Those who use the sword perish by the sword.” *** “Don’t wait for Jesus” is bad advice, readers. The disciple’s job until the Messiah returns is to evangelize the world, not conquer the world.

* The devil whispers in my ear. * John 13:35 completes the Messiah’s thought.

I’ve been thinking off and on this morning about my evangelism trips to Africa. I was robbed at gunpoint of a small amount of money by an armed Christian militia in Malawi. Yet at the same time, I stayed in a run down hotel in Blantyre that housed two UN soldiers, and a Malawi army unit sat...

I’m not a fan of AI but when I typed “Is the Shema a trinitarian Creed?” in a search engine, an AI overview came back with the following response - “No, the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4 : ‘Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one’) is fundamentally a declaration of radical Jewish monotheism...

Elohim is always plural in form but is almost always singular in meaning; always singular in meaning when used to describe Yahweh. He is one; not they is one. Elohim, plural in form, singular in meaning -> God, god Elohim, plural in form, plural in meaning -> gods The Shema is the Creed of...

Yes. Wait for him.

Your position is hypocritical. At least the man who is arguing that the disciples of Jesus must be armed and prepared to kill is doing what he is teaching others to do. You didn’t make the claim that a follower of Jesus is compelled to have weapons. @Wrangler did. I’m writing against him...

Listen again to the argument: “you are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” Peter was armed and wanted to kill. Now listen to yourself, “Peter, like Judas, wanted things his way.“ You’re right. The argument urged upon us is wrong. Put it away. A weapon of the world that...

The answer is zero. Remember, the argument that has been set before us: “you are not following Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.” If we accept that argument then you, who have just told me that you are not armed, are not a follower of Jesus. Now you want to argue from silence that the...

Jesus rebuked Peter and told him to put away the sword. Remember? Paul said the disciples of Jesus are armed with spiritual weapons, not the weapons of the world. Remember? Now we’re getting somewhere. The state, not the disciple of Jesus, has been given the authority to use the sword.

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, …” -> you are armed with the weapons of the world and ready to kill?

Does anyone wonder why clergy / chaplains are noncombatants in war? You who want the followers of Jesus to kill their enemies, what is your understanding of “the priesthood of all believers”?

A few days ago I asked how many people the apostles killed with the sword and I received an answer to my question. The correct answer is zero.