@hippyjoe1955
Quite right. And those extremists in Washington DC and Tel Aviv have nothing to do with religion

@sree251 Many see it as so, especially in the modern era. But there is a strong tradition of.’ the just war’ which is argued can also be consistent in fighting injustice. WW2 was seen as such by many Christians. Jesus did speak about peace and is described as the Prince of Peace, but that does not necessarily mean that within the fallen world whether Christian finds themselves resort to defence with arms is essentially ruled out. The Bible also says that there will be no peace until the end of days. Personally, I don’t take that to mean that we shouldn’t strive for peace, but the fact is we live in a war in world. It is the bombastic and bloodthirsty language of the current US administration which is completely foreign to what has gone before and I am sure Jesus is weeping at what he sees.

@FreddieUK Since you seem to believe in the biblical fairytale, do you also believe in the Beowulf and the King Arthur fairytales?

The Koran has some of the same characters as the biblical fairytale. So you should also believe in it as well.

@Diotrephes We’re done.

@sree251 Thanks. I wonder if that's the one I know as the NLT - New Living Translation? Those from the Reformed tradition have objected to every translation since the KJV. No translation is perfect and I when doing serious study, I use at least two. My NT Greek is so rusty as to be useless these days.

@FreddieUK What is troubling is the American evangelical Christian attitude in support of the US war on Iran. What is your take?

@sree251 I’m appalled and so are all my Christian friends. It’s embarrassing, so much so that I no longer use the word ‘evangelical’ since it’s been tainted so much.