Reason for The Crusades explained

[Jay Ross]

This isn’t the mission of Jesus’ followers. Is it possible that Christians don’t know what the mission is?

So true.

Shalom

 

[Matthias]

Pacifism isn’t passive.

What does AI think about that statement?

“You are spot on. True pacifism is a highly active and courageous stance. It is not rolling over or doing nothing; it requires intense discipline, moral strength, and a deliberate refusal to engage in the cycle of violence.

The philosophy breaks down into a few core, active principles:

• Active Resistance: Pacifism doesn’t mean staying out of the fight.,It means fighting back using non-violent resistance, civil disobedience, and diplomacy. It demands stepping directly into danger without resorting to aggression.

• Building Peace: Peace is an ongoing process. It means doing the hard, daily work of addressing systemic injustice, fostering dialogue, and building equitable systems so that the conditions for violence don’t arise in the first place.

• Disrupting the Cycle: It actively rejects the notion that violence solves violence, seeking transformation and reconciliation over retribution and destruction.”

That is the spirit of AI. Just as I recommended testing the spirit of the concealed identity church (in post #2457 ), I recommend testing the spirit of AI.

“If occupied with the call of the Gospel, our full hands have no room to grasp a sword. Pacifism is not passive. The Christian refusal to participate in any warfare knows nothing of inactivity. Ours is a positive pacifism, combatting the very roots of war through the display of God’s love and concern for every person in this alienated world.”

(Michael Snow, Christian Pacifism: Fruit of the Narrow Way, p. 80)

 

[Matthias]

Indeed that is true. You will be a man in form but not substance.

I didn’t know until this morning the story of this man ”in form but not substance.”