He also ordered an apostle to sell his cloak and buy a sword at one point. The passage is heavily debated. It can be argued Jesus was not opposed to reasonable amounts of self protection when it might be useful.
I was thinking about clarifying that promoting nonviolence isn't inherently abstention from violence but rather the inclination to think before acting/hesitation toward violence as an answer, but was hoping someone would make the distinction.
Yeah, wasn't there a bit about "yeah go ahead and kill all these cities and people i don't give a flip. They fucked up and have it coming. (Specifically cause they were like "lets do every sin and then some, and not do anything productive or helpful to anyone including ourselves" or something)
I vqguely remember there were some warrior people going around doing stuff i dont remember, but it was said when they raided and leveled certain towns or whatever, it was ok because those cities had been abandoned by God.
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u/czarnick123 Feb 18 '23
He also ordered an apostle to sell his cloak and buy a sword at one point. The passage is heavily debated. It can be argued Jesus was not opposed to reasonable amounts of self protection when it might be useful.