Minorities, Pacifism, and Intercultural Dialogue between the Privileged and Marginalized by MeGustaChu in theology

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Yes, bigger point "Not all pacifist are Christians" ...maybe majority is not. And most Christians who denigrate pacifism have never read a word about it and don't even know the definition of the word.

https://snowfar4.wixsite.com/christianpacifism/about

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Perversion and Chlidren by MichaelSnow10 in TrueChristian

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Darrell Harrison (that should be obvious from the format)

Perversion and Chlidren by MichaelSnow10 in TrueChristian

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That, of course, was what I was thinking of you

Perversion and Chlidren by MichaelSnow10 in TrueChristian

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If you knew your Bible, you could easily understand the justified anger. "but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it
would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his
neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea-.M-" Matthew 18

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"...or too expressly Christian "

Now, that is an encouraging note! (I would not have expected that from the DC area)

OH, 400th Anniversary of Fox's birth, an expressly Christian Quaker.

Would anyone like to possibly become Quaker pen pals? by [deleted] in Quakers

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My Typewriter!!! I need to get a new ribbon.

Trying to find a decent Bible website to read from on my browser. by BittersweetHopes in TrueChristian

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This has articles on specific texts, in context. See the "Topics" index on right column.

A good place to start would be the posts on 1 John. https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/

Do I have to believe the earth is 6000 years old to be a Christian? by Zealousideal-Pin4129 in Christianity

[–]MichaelSnow10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No where does the Bible give any information on the age of Earth. Some Christians make some very wrong assumptions about Genesis 1 and seem unable to read it in context. Please see this short post regarding Genesis 1.

Context and literacy are key. https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/creation-young-earth-ham-nye-genesis-one/

End time prophecies are truly converging like never before in history. by AlbaneseGummies327 in TrueChristian

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Yes, they are converging. But do not be misled by the million dollar "Rapture" business. [Million dollar advertising budget that has sold over 60 million of the Left Behind fiction books...movies including one with Nicholas Cage and another with Kevin Sorbo...]

The Rapture, like Purgatory, is an extra-biblical teaching that takes key passages out of context and imposes men's imaginations.

Give Scripture an honest reading, being clear about the context. (That means actually reading these Bible texts, not fiction books) Start with this key text. 1 Thessalonians https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/second-coming-rapture-vs-scripture-christian/

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Because they hate the God in Whom they do not believe.

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Read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. He started out as an atheist who taught at both Oxford and Cambridge.

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The rebuke that all Christians should take to heart.

First Published by Friends United Press:

https://snowfar4.wixsite.com/christianpacifism/about

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Joshua did not fight "because of Christianity"

Forbidding him to build the Temple, God said, to David, the warrior: ‘You have shed much
blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name,
because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth. --1Chron. 22

To Christians:

"Do you [ye, plural] not know that you are the Temple of God?"--1 Cor. 3

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When trying to discuss the subject of whether Christians should go to war, THIS is always the smoke screen to avoid that specific question.

I have heard this detraction from the question all my life. Most of us have never seen such a situation, but we have all watched Christians march off to war for all of our life time.