I've had more snow on Danksgivings than GIRDMas.Liar Revealed wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:13 pmIt actually snowed on Christmas, which is somewhat rare around here.
The last couple of days have been the warmest days in all December for me.
I've had more snow on Danksgivings than GIRDMas.Liar Revealed wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:13 pmIt actually snowed on Christmas, which is somewhat rare around here.
Nigga would have brought down Rome and turned the Mediterranean to wine.VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:53 amHe would have if they had been invented in his time.
Why would he do that if you don't mind me asking?rabidtictac wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:54 amJesus literally said he brought not peace, but a sword. That he came to set family members against each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_10Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:31 amWhy would he do that if you don't mind me asking?rabidtictac wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:54 amJesus literally said he brought not peace, but a sword. That he came to set family members against each other.
I think that explanation is bullshit. He meant that you had to pick sides. Him or anyone fucking else. It had to be him all the way, on everything. You can't be on jesus' side and then go be on your family's side or friends' side. It has to be him or nobody. If jesus was in conflict with something else, no matter what it was, you had to pick jesus. You can be part of a community only to the extent they don't conflict with worship of him.Verse 34
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send [or bring] peace, but a sword."[5][6]
This is a much-discussed passage, often explained in terms of the "apocalyptic-eschatological" context of the 1st century.[7]
R. T. France explains the verse, in context with the subsequent verse 35: "The sword Jesus brings is not here military conflict, but, as vv. 35–36 show, a sharp social division which even severs the closest family ties. … Jesus speaks here, as in the preceding and following verses, more of a division in men’s personal response to him."[8]
The text of Matthew's Gospel in the Book of Kells alters gladium, the Vulgate translation of makhairan "sword", to gaudium "joy", resulting in a reading of "I came not [only] to bring peace, but [also] joy".[9]
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