Two great examples. What id point out are the commonalities of both; how in each case God, through a process of individual’s free choice, selects a few to overcome the many, not through violence, but through a firm and morally principled posture of knowledge, wisdom, and mastery over the physical. This wisdom dissolves their opposition - again, not through violence, but illumination. The fact that some react violently to this illumination is seemingly unavoidable (so bring a sword when you travel the unknown territories! And know when to keep it sheathed!)
For me, one of the hardest to understand sayings of Jesus goes something like:
- Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
Now, I’d ask, do you read that as indicating Jesus literally is like, “provoking” these conflicts? Like, is there a “team Jesus” that hes marching alongside, as they engage in righteous slaughter? Or instead, is what’s happening more along the lines of the above, our ignorance violently revolting against His wisdom causing these outbreaks of violence described?
Two great examples. What id point out are the commonalities of both; how in each case God, through a process of individual’s free choice, selects a few to overcome the many, not through violence, but through a posture of knowledge, wisdom, and mastery over the physical. This wisdom dissolves their opposition - again, not through violence, but illumination. The fact that some react violently to this illumination is seemingly unavoidable (so bring a sword when you travel the unknown territories! And know when to keep it sheathed!)
For me, one of the hardest to understand sayings of Jesus goes something like:
- Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
Now, I’d ask, do you read that as indicating Jesus literally is like, “provoking” these conflicts? Like, is there a “team Jesus” that hes marching alongside, as they engage in righteous slaughter? Or instead, is what’s happening more along the lines of the above, our ignorance violently revolting against His wisdom causing these outbreaks of violence described?
Two great examples. What id point out are the commonalities of both; how in each case God, through a process of individual’s free choice, selects a few to overcome the many, not through violence, but through a posture of knowledge, wisdom, and mastery over the physical. This wisdom dissolves their opposition - again, not through violence, but illumination. The fact that some react violently to this illumination is seemingly unavoidable (so bring a sword when you travel the unknown territories! And know when to keep it sheathed!)
For me, one of the hardest to understand sayings of Jesus goes something like:
- Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
Now, I’d ask, do you read that as indicating Jesus literally is like, “provoking” these conflicts? Or instead, is what’s happening more along the lines of the above, our ignorance violently revolting against His wisdom causing these outbreaks of violence described?
Two great examples. What id point out are the commonalities of both; how in each case God, through a process of individual’s free choice, selects a few to overcome the many, not through violence, but through a posture of knowledge, wisdom, and mastery over the physical. This wisdom dissolves their opposition - again, not through violence, but illumination. The fact that some react violently to this illumination is seemingly unavoidable (so bring a sword when you travel the unknown territories! And know when to keep it sheathed!
For me, one of the hardest to understand sayings of Jesus goes something like:
- Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
Now, I’d ask, do you read that as indicating Jesus literally is like, “provoking” these conflicts? Or instead, is what’s happening more along the lines of the above, our ignorance violently revolting against His wisdom causing these outbreaks of violence described?
Two great examples. What id point out are the commonalities of both; how in each case God, through a process of individual’s free choice, selects a few to overcome the many, not through violence, but through a posture of knowledge, wisdom, and mastery over the physical. This wisdom dissolves their opposition - again, not through violence, but illumination. The fact that some react violently to this illumination is seemingly unavoidable.
For me, one of the hardest to understand sayings of Jesus goes something like:
- Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
Now, I’d ask, do you read that as indicating Jesus literally is like, “provoking” these conflicts? Or instead, is what’s happening more along the lines of the above, our ignorance violently revolting against His wisdom causing these outbreaks of violence described?
Two great examples. What id point out are the commonalities of both; how in each case God, through a process of individual’s free choice, selects a few to overcome the many, not through violence, but through a posture of knowledge, wisdom, and mastery over the physical. This wisdom dissolves their opposition - again, not through violence, but illumination. The fact that some react violently to this illumination is seemingly unavoidable.
For me, one of the hardest to understand sayings of Jesus goes something like:
- Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."