Friendly reminder for The Resistance 2.0 (pussy hats optional):
The same Jesus reported in Matthew 25 as asking if you fed the hungry, clothed the naked and visited the prisoner said in Matthew 10: "I came not to bring peace but a sword." He continues by noting he has come "to turn a son against his father and daughter against her mother."
Isaiah and Micah talk about beating swords into plowshares, but Joel mentions beating plowshares into swords.
Yahweh himself orders a genocide, a holocaust, in 1 Samuel 15, in the Tanakh or Old Testament.
Ecclesiastes says there's a season for everything.
Related?
There is no theology of the bible, and you can mine whatever you want, as far as what "Christianity" is.
Related?
The same is true for Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. One can make all sorts of claims about any world religion from its own scriptures.
More relative to the matter at hand?
Paul says in Romans that people should submit unto the governing authorities. Jesus says, in the "whose image" dialogue, essentially, pay your taxes — all of them.
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