Article: DISPELLING THE MYTHS OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

I believe it is appropriate to share this article considering the mis/disinformation being spread about Jesus being aligned with what many are saying is "necessary" violence. If you read or have read the Old and New Testaments God's instructions through the prophets and others were to pursue peace with all people.

 "The late New Testament scholar I. Howard Marshall says that the command to buy a sword is “a call to be ready for hardship and self-sacrifice.” Darrell Bock says that the command to buy a sword symbolically “points to readiness and self-sufficiency, not revenge.” Catholic scholar Joseph Fitzmyer writes, “The introduction of the "sword’ signals” that “the Period of the Church will be marked with persecution,” which of course we see throughout the book of Acts. And the

popular Reformed commentator, William Hendrickson, puts it bluntly: “The term sword must be interpreted figuratively.”

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