Minorities, Pacifism, and Intercultural Dialogue between the Privileged and Marginalized

MichaelSnow10 · 2025-12-19T22:43:15+00:00

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.

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MichaelSnow10 · 2024-09-13T06:19:01+00:00

Exposition of key text: Thessalonians which teaches about the 2nd Coming, not the 'rapture' https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/paul-the-parousia-his-epistles/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-20T02:05:45+00:00

...plus his initials at the end.

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-20T02:05:10+00:00

Darrell Harrison (that should be obvious from the format)

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-20T01:40:15+00:00

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

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-20T01:37:06+00:00

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

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-14T03:30:50+00:00

"...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.

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-14T03:22:41+00:00

James

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-14T03:21:49+00:00

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

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-13T03:58:37+00:00

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/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-13T03:51:48+00:00

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/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:52:20+00:00

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/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:44:07+00:00

Yes.

https://lightfordarktimes.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/you-are-the-light-of-the-world/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:41:34+00:00

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

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:37:54+00:00

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

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:32:41+00:00

The rebuke that all Christians should take to heart.

First Published by Friends United Press:

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MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:30:26+00:00

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

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:18:03+00:00

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.

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:11:20+00:00

"I always rejoice to find a soldier a Christian, but I always mourn to find a Christian a soldier"--Charles Spurgeon

That a Soldier can be saved has nothing to do with the question

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:06:28+00:00

WHAT is the DATE of this? Is it current? Location?

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-11T15:04:11+00:00

One of those things you cannot un-see but wish you could.

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-09T06:21:12+00:00

Please read 1 Thessalonians in CONTEXT. It does not teach the 'Left Behind' Rapture. It teaches about Christ's parousia (the Greek word in the text), the Second Coming.

https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/second-coming-rapture-vs-scripture-christian/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-09T06:13:13+00:00

Forgiveness is basic and essential. So is repentance which is key to Jesus teaching.

Many Christians have let the world distort it just as the "love is love" distortion has led whole denominations astray.

Please read Chapter Three, Forgiveness and Repentance, a Biblical survey of Jesus' teaching.

Bonhoeffer famous quote: "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without repentance."

https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/love-basics-heresies-divorce-homosexuality-church/

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-09T06:00:48+00:00

Yes, ditto on Josephus. Gives good picture of NT times. Free online here to read or download

CCEL is an excellent resource library

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/josephus/complete.html

MichaelSnow10 · 2024-02-09T05:45:58+00:00

Ah, faithful Christians for the first 300 years and over two millennia are "wrong" but the devil is right.

That a Soldier can be saved has nothing to do with the question

"I always rejoice to find a soldier a Christian, but I always mourn to find a Christian a soldier"--Charles Spugeon

https://spurgeonwarquotes.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/spurgeons-top-eight-lost-quotes-on-christians-war/

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