Jesus's entire ministry on earth was rebuking the Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees, right to their faces, calling them liars, hypocrites, prideful, sinful, children of satan, a den of vipers, murderers and thieves, unworthy of the kingdom of God. He flipped their tables, whipped them, and threw them out of the temple. He pissed them off so much they conspired to murder Him, but Jesus had so much public support they could only snatch Him in the middle of the night. And, Revelation paints how brutal Jesus will be toward His enemies when He returns.
Those are things he did (and/or will do), not things he preached though. 2A support was something preached, actually ordered followers to do. Someone chimping out on a bunch of Jews and Jupiter-worshippers using a church as a bank really isn't the best example. It's the most popular one, and its cathartic, but the outright order to sell your cloak in order to buy swords really is a clearer example of militarism in biblical teachings.
EDIT: corrected which mythology was using that Church at the time.
Well, the bible continues on after that "sell your cloak and buy one" bit. Where, in those later chapters of the bible, do Christians ever start fighting and using those swords? Never.
Instead, after Peter struck the ear of the slave of the high priest, Jesus told him to put away his sword, healed the slave's ear with a touch, and said to Peter "those who live by the sword, die by the sword". You should remember that Jesus told them all to get swords right before he was to be taken away. Yet he did not allow them to fight in his defense. Why? Because his Kingdom, and theirs, was not of this world.
What was the point of the swords then? To use as a prop in order to teach them what not to do. Also, it was necessary to fulfill prophecy: Luke 22:37
Jesus's entire ministry on earth was rebuking the Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees, right to their faces, calling them liars, hypocrites, prideful, sinful, children of satan, a den of vipers, murderers and thieves, unworthy of the kingdom of God. He flipped their tables, whipped them, and threw them out of the temple. He pissed them off so much they conspired to murder Him, but Jesus had so much public support they could only snatch Him in the middle of the night. And, Revelation paints how brutal Jesus will be toward His enemies when He returns.
Those are things he did (and/or will do), not things he preached though. 2A support was something preached, actually ordered followers to do. Someone chimping out on a bunch of Jews and Jupiter-worshippers using a church as a bank really isn't the best example. It's the most popular one, and its cathartic, but the outright order to sell your cloak in order to buy swords really is a clearer example of militarism in biblical teachings.
EDIT: corrected which mythology was using that Church at the time.
Well, the bible continues on after that "sell your cloak and buy one" bit. Where, in those later chapters of the bible, do Christians ever start fighting and using those swords? Never.
Instead, after Peter struck the ear of the slave of the high priest, Jesus told him to put away his sword, healed the slave's ear with a touch, and said to Peter "those who live by the sword, die by the sword". You should remember that Jesus told them all to get swords right before he was to be taken away. Yet he did not allow them to fight in his defense. Why? Because his Kingdom, and theirs, was not of this world.
What was the point of the swords then? To use as a prop in order to teach them what not to do. Also, it was necessary to fulfill prophecy: Luke 22:37