Reason for The Crusades explained

[Matthias]

You are an anti-Biblical fanatic.

I teach, preach, and practice the teaching, preaching, and practice of Jesus and the apostles.

There is no persuading you.

The concealed identity church hasn’t presented a persuasive argument. Everything that you stand for the early church stood against.

Your ideology favors evil doers over God's innocent children.

My theology - the theology of Jesus and the apostles - doesn’t favor evil. The proof of that is found in the Apostolic and Ante Nicene periods of church history. In later periods, it was persecuted by the crusaders; that history was discussed in the book Christian Jihad, written by two brothers who converted from Islam to Christianity. I shared excerpts of the book with my readers. No one, yourself included, challenged the assertions that the Caner brothers made. In anticipation of potential challenges, I supported what they wrote with a wide variety of Christian sources. No challenge was put forward.

On the LHS are hordes of Islamic Jihadi's. On the are God's innocent children. Abstaining from protecting the innocent leads inevitably to their destruction and allows evil to prevail. No amount of long winded double talk is going to change that injustice.

See how the early Christians protected the innocent. Rather than attack them, you skipped over their history.

When the LORD asks, who should I send (to DO JUSTICE), your answer is a resounding, "Don't send me. Send a real Christian." Isaiah 6:8

No. My answer is ”Send me. I remain faithful to the teaching of Jesus and the apostles in word and in deed.”

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And the cycle of violence was perpetuated. Muslims, Jews, and Christians; men, women, and children were slaughtered. The Crusades were a failure. And you haven’t had enough of it.

”We don’t use the weapons of the world.” - Paul

“Then die at my hands.” - the crusaders

You can’t be persuaded. That’s fine. Set our views side by side.

You counsel violence. I counsel peace, even to the point of being slain by you.

 

[Matthias]

Go to Spurgeon - or any other commentaries of your favorite Christian authors - to provide support for your teaching. I’ll take the time to read it and give it serious consideration.

That’s a simple and reasonable request. Will you do that for my benefit? Will you do that for the benefit of your other readers?

@NayborBear

No, @Wrangler will not. Not for my benefit. Not for the benefit of his other readers.

Presented with nothing to consider, there is no reason for a change of mind.

When confronted with the accusation of being anti-Biblical, follow the teaching and practice of Jesus and the apostles.

 

[Matthias]

If you want to persuade me then you’ll have to present your case using the real history of Judaism (Second Temple era, in particular) and Christianity (Apostolic and Ante Nicene eras, in particular) for support. I’m bound by the constraints of history. Made up scenarios don’t do either one of us, nor our readers any good.

I’ve shown my enemies what it will take to win me over. History is the key to success.







One replied with a dismissal. Needless to say, that won’t win me over.

The other replied with a slight nod to history, but it didn’t support his argument. That’s not enough to persuade me, but the door remains cracked open for him.

 

[Matthias]

Going back to the video in the OP. Watch the video again. (Or for the first time if you came in late and haven’t watched it.) The evangelist started out well. Why wasn’t he successful?

 

[Matthias]

Does anyone here besides me remember this man?

 

[NayborBear]

You’ll each have an opportunity to tell Jesus why you didn’t follow his teaching and example.

I figure I'm being "given the opportunity" of trying to show and tell an "un-germinatd mustard seed" a coupla things here!
Kinda goes like this Matthias (et el) Ever really look at "one" stalk of wheat, and notice just how many "grains" of wheat are on the head of it?
When a/the believer has been (how can I say) "gas lighted" into believing that "should even ONE grain develop" in "his/there" wheat plant/
They need NOT even strive! NO! Not even TRY in achieving the "MANY GRAINS" a "single head" of wheat CAN produce?!
a) GOD is NOT a "RESPECTER OF PERSONS!"
b) What it sounds like to see the words and hear messages from one who allows GOD'S Spirit in speaking through him!
aka-"Born FROM above!" (1Peter 2:5)
Do you even think, that "ME?" Just a "dumb-arsed" retired puller of countless "boxes of rocks" out of more than several "holes in the ground" can come up with these things I've been posting in here? ON MY OWN?

 

[NayborBear]

Go to Spurgeon - or any other commentaries of your favorite Christian authors - to provide support for your teaching. I’ll take the time to read it and give it serious consideration.

Here's the "result of my consideration!":
Ezekiel 13:
3 Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

 

[Wrangler]

I figure I'm being "given the opportunity"

I love how he sets up the Strawman. Abdicating the foolish notion the Bible is totally absent of any violence, he wants us to draw only from his pacifist sources to find support for using violence. What a corrupt search for truth that is!