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For me its less about "modern Israel" and more about reading Gods intentions for the "how" he plans to restore His Creation from Genesis to Revelations. Well put. I think there are indications of a return to the land of Israel, and that a Jewish temple will be rebuilt prior to t...

Here is an interesting paper comparing Christian pacifism to the traditional Anabaptist position, which the author, Caleb Zimmerman, calls "Anabaptist two-kingdom dualism." The pdf is freely available online, this link should allow you to view and/or download it: https://philarchive.org/ar...

I agree with Nomad. I see multiple senses of terms like seed of Abraham, Jew, etc. A Jew, the physical seed of Abraham, can come to Christ now and be saved, and join the church, which is an entirely new body ("one new man", Ephesians 2:15), a multi-ethnic, transnational group comprised of ...

I read an article a long time ago by Al Mohler called "Theological Triage" where he broke it down into 3 different "Triages or Tiers... Triage 1: this would be what would differentiate a Christian from a non-Christian. Like belief in Jesus as our Lord in Savior. Triage 2: would be th...

Trying to move away from the discussion of nonresistance and the Trinity, and back to the four categories in my original post. Fundamentalists and liberals tend toward opposite errors. Liberals deny the existence of any first-tier issues, and make everything a third-tier issue; the result is doctri...

I'm going to put my faith and trust in Jesus and what He did to save me from my sins. To trust in some man's interpretation of the scriptures that adds to what salvation requires gets us into all kinds of determinations of who is saved and who isn't. I will settle for what Paul says is 'of first im...

Trying to move away from the discussion of nonresistance and the Trinity, and back to the four categories in my original post. Fundamentalists and liberals tend toward opposite errors. Liberals deny the existence of any first-tier issues, and make everything a third-tier issue; the result is doctrin...

Basically, I think I have brothers and sisters in evangelical and Protestant churches, and I'm not going to relegate them to "the world" or "the ungodly", or act like Mennonites are better or more godly than they are. It is easy to judge someone or feel superior to them; but that...

I think killing people is sort of a big deal. Unlike a molehill. I thought, surely I don't have to add again that I think nonresistance important. But apparently I do. I never said it is a molehill. I've had devotions at church about how Isaac and Joseph were types of NT nonresistance/love of enemi...

Consider two hypothetical men. One man is a member of a nonresistant church, nods firmly when his pastors speak of it, would never defend himself with a gun, and teaches his children the same. But he resents his neighbor for an old dispute about the boundary line on their property; he gets angry at ...