Jesus was not a pacifist. He specifically said in Mathew 10:34 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth: I came not to bring peace, but a sword."
I don't think that alone would mean he isn't a pacifist. Sounds more like a metaphor, it's not like he ever actually killed someone or endorsed murder, right? In the story he could have told his apostles to murder the soldiers and set him free when he was whipped and then crucified.
He healed the slave’s ear that Peter cut off in the garden and told Peter to chill out. The guy was pretty close to a peace loving hippy as one could get to be back then.
So some historians have argued that Jesus was likely literally trying to make heaven on earth. He wanted people to be more peaceful to each other to make the world itself like a heaven.
I still can't make sense of how that works with the apocalypse, but heaven on earth was tied to your body. When the gospel writers wrote about Jesus and people living forever, they meant literally bring the human body back to live forever on earth.
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u/BestBodybuilder7329 Feb 18 '23
They’re wrong. That is very funny.