Matt;
10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 22:36
He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
While the idea of Jesus as the paragon of niceness and non-violence sits well in the christians delusions and imagination, it is not true according to their own "holy" book
Ask any Muslim what happens to him when he converts to Christianity. There's your sword.
The implications of the claim that Mohammed was the last and greatest prophet is that Mohammed was the fulfillment of both the second coming of Christ and the fulfillment of Jewish messianic expectations, something Christians and Jews will never accept.
As such many feel morally justified and even obligated to kill all who do not accept Mohammed based on luke 19:27. where they believe that Jesus himself predicted that he would order the murder of unbelievers when he returned which is exactly what Mohammed did, ordered the murder of unbelievers, even though the verse was never intended to be taken literally and is a subtle teaching about the hidden subject of ritual slaughter that has literally nothing to do with killing anybody..
"But as for those enemies of mine who would not have me for their king, bring them here and slaughter them in my presence."
Not true
hobelim M
Unlike the way you teach it falsely, many Jews Christians and Muslims do live in peace by accepting to put God authority first above man made interpretations that divide politically. These ways are false and will not prevail.
What you cite at the end is still the old school Retribution Justice of divide and conquer, Judge reject and punish.
That is against the final message in both Christianity and Islam that teach God's laws leading to peace for all humanity.
You are still preaching OT ways that lead to death.
We are in the NT stages that bring new life. That is the way of God through Christ Jesus through Restorative Justice that brings unity by agreement in truth.
The false ways of teaching as you point out bring division war and death. That is why no true believer will accept that false way of teaching. Thanks for pointing this out why it fails. Because it is false.
Only God's true laws will unite because they by definition will be universal to all ppl tribes and nations. So this will work to bring justice unity and peace, while false teaching 's fail and bring war.
Emily you know nothing about actual jewish
jurisprudence or Islamic jurisprudence. As to your representation of Christian jurisprudence----I will not comment
Dear
irosie91
I go with where faithful followers and teachers of these faiths agree.
Since God's truth by definition is universal, that would be consistent with all faiths when taught correctly.
The people I find are able to teach and follow
Jewish Christian and Muslim traditions where these are in agreement include:
* Olivia and Irvin Reiner, Peter Loth, and other Jewish leaders who are able to reconcile with Christianity
I will go with their teachings since these are consistent with others, not in conflict
and because they are open to receiving rebuke and making corrections, they
do NOT need to "exclude people who do not agree with them in order to be right."
irosie91 if your way of teaching requires you to exclude others "in order to be right"
then something is missing; after you reconcile with other Jewish Christian and Muslim followers,
then I would believe yours is universal. I'm sure your knowledge would ADD to that of others,
but for you to reject them where these agree in truth, something is wrong with that interpretation that has to make other people wrong in order to justify not changing.
* Senior Pastor Robert Moore, Christ the King Lutheran Church
* Guz Elowitz, Congregation of Messiah Jesus / Messianic Jews
* Mustafaa Carroll, CAIR
Since these scholars and followers of the Bible agree on God's truth, even from
different approaches, and can include and work with all other people from diverse views,
that is what I use to establish what is God's universal truth -- where all can agree without conflict and can resolve any inconsistency.
All these people are open to working with others to establish God's truth by agreement on scripture.
So
irosie91 if you have issues with my saying that Christ Jesus means Restorative Justice
and this brings together all people of all tribes and nations, I am happy to call a consortium
of Jewish and Christian counselors to work with you and me to establish agreement on what is true or not.
I'm sure you and the other Jewish community leaders and pastors can work out whatever issues
you have with anything I have said or posted.
I do not find there is anything contradictory between the
TRUE teachings of the Jewish Christian and Muslim lineage
but it is only the false divisive teachings that cause conflicts.
Thank you
irosie91