Re: Trump attempt. "It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon, they all said, "Try to live together peacefully." - GC
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You have quoted many good applications of the scriptures. But I think you just started out with a wrong premise. I’m guessing you mistook my application of Matthew 10:34-36 as to burn bridges on every disagreements in life. Far from it. Lets be clear here. This concerns only important theological questions like for ex. is Jesus the Messiah or not? Even the early churches had ‘lost’ many brothers/sisters over the question of Christ (1 John 2:19).
I began with the premise that you presented. In summary, that was that Jesus did not advocate for peace. In doing so, you quoted a scripture that was in warning of the trials that the disciples would face, which is not how He instructed us to live, but was a warning that living and shining a light would not be met with peace by the world.
However, in dealing with the world, we are to deal peaceably and fairly, as I pointed out in the scriptures I pulled from the earlier portions of Matthew.
I will be clear, as you request: the division is not from those following Christ's words, it is from those that work against Christ's words. Should any proclaim the darkness, Jesus never said to sunder them. That work was proclaimed as the right of the Lord to do in the end of days.