But he didn't actually bring a sword, right? It's allegorical, and I would argue it represents pure conflict, not mentioning severity.
He also never says to attack your family; you aren't the one being set against them.
I think the whole Pandemic really exemplifies this: most people who opposed the government in forcing medical mandates on us had one or more family members "set against" them. Those family were not committed to the idea that every human being is loved by God, but that humans were animals to be used and abused as needed by some other higher power they worship.
In normal times, we have no idea. But it's revealed when our faith is tested, either negatively, as in the Pandemic, or positively, as when the literal Son of God came to Earth to teach us.
How I read this is that Jesus is telling us to stick by him in the face of war with your family (which is neither easy nor pleasant). With luck, they'll come around but if not, the evil will wage war on you just to pull you off the path. Don't let them, even if it means your life.
My brother in Christ. The entire point of what He is saying here is that in order to be a Christian you will have to reject, and be rejected by, the world. Not AcCePtInG of their sinful lifestyles.
One does not have to accept a sinful lifestyle to accept a sinner. If that were the case, Jesus would accept literally nobody. The point, per Jesus, is to deliver them from sin. How can you teach and save sinners if you only ever accept pure holy ones?
Dude, you don't understand this little lefty meme, at all.
You're a total buffoon if you think that the lefty believes anything other than Jesus is totally accepting of the sinful lifestyle.
Besides, how do you "aCcEpT" someone without accepting their lifestyle? You let them into the church to listen to sermons, but you don't put them on the board or teach Sunday school.
You understand nothing of the insane lefty nor Christianity.
But he didn't actually bring a sword, right? It's allegorical, and I would argue it represents pure conflict, not mentioning severity.
He also never says to attack your family; you aren't the one being set against them.
I think the whole Pandemic really exemplifies this: most people who opposed the government in forcing medical mandates on us had one or more family members "set against" them. Those family were not committed to the idea that every human being is loved by God, but that humans were animals to be used and abused as needed by some other higher power they worship.
In normal times, we have no idea. But it's revealed when our faith is tested, either negatively, as in the Pandemic, or positively, as when the literal Son of God came to Earth to teach us.
How I read this is that Jesus is telling us to stick by him in the face of war with your family (which is neither easy nor pleasant). With luck, they'll come around but if not, the evil will wage war on you just to pull you off the path. Don't let them, even if it means your life.
My brother in Christ. The entire point of what He is saying here is that in order to be a Christian you will have to reject, and be rejected by, the world. Not AcCePtInG of their sinful lifestyles.
One does not have to accept a sinful lifestyle to accept a sinner. If that were the case, Jesus would accept literally nobody. The point, per Jesus, is to deliver them from sin. How can you teach and save sinners if you only ever accept pure holy ones?
Dude, you don't understand this little lefty meme, at all.
You're a total buffoon if you think that the lefty believes anything other than Jesus is totally accepting of the sinful lifestyle.
Besides, how do you "aCcEpT" someone without accepting their lifestyle? You let them into the church to listen to sermons, but you don't put them on the board or teach Sunday school.
You understand nothing of the insane lefty nor Christianity.