Bonus questions: Why did God create people if He intended for us to kill each other? What is the meaning behind "Love Thy Neighbor?"
2006-12-14 08:53:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus’ religious opponents came to arrest him. Peter tried to protect him with a sword, but Jesus said to Peter: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword.” (Matthew 26:52)
Jesus did not fight the secular authorities.
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John 2:14 And he found in the temple those selling cattle and sheep and doves and the money brokers in their seats. 15 So, after making a whip of ropes, he drove all those with the sheep and cattle out of the temple, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he said to those selling the doves: “Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of merchandise!
--Jesus was angry because of the wrong things the people were doing.
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Matthew 10:35 For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a young wife against her mother-in-law. 36 Indeed, a man’s enemies will be persons of his own household.
---because of one's belief in Jesus, there would be family differences, the thing is to love your neighbor means to be considerate to them even if they dont believe in jesus as you do...Jesus himself said: do unto others what you want them to do to you...
2006-12-14 09:02:39 · answer #1 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course Jesus was a pacifist!!! What do you think "turn the other cheek" is? Second...God did not create people to kill each other, you need to read. The love thy neighbor is the golden rule personified. Don't treat anyone how you don't want to be treated. Respect everyone with the same respect you think you deserve.
2006-12-14 08:58:20 · answer #2 · answered by outspoken 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course Jesus is a pacifist.
God didn't want or intended for us to kill each other. We did and still do that on our own. "Love thy Neighbor" meaning to love and respect other people not just your next door neighbor. Your neighbor is the student seated next to you in the class room, the passenger seated next to you in the bus, the car, the plane, or even the person seated next to you in the park. It is anyone around you is your neighbor. When you love another person, you wouldn't think of disrespecting them or think of harming them in any form, speech or action.
2006-12-14 08:59:19 · answer #3 · answered by Sierra Leone 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is not a pacifist in the way that you are thinking.
Matthew 10:34
Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Jesus is very war-like, but as pertaining to spiritual war.
2006-12-14 09:07:14 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't want us to hurt each other, but he wont stop us... He created us with a free will, so we can do what we want. Sadly, most people don't do the right thing.
2006-12-14 08:59:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-03-28 17:46:11 · answer #6 · answered by Gerald 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think pacifists use a whip to beat moneychangers out of temples.
2006-12-14 09:00:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He says turn the other cheek but he also says he brings the sword. I guess it depends on his mood.
2006-12-14 08:57:37 · answer #8 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-12-14 08:55:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, he was revolutionary, so unlike his "follows" of today..
He was a very peaceful person but I don't think he was actually a pacifist...
2006-12-14 08:57:20 · answer #10 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋