>>497883052>Jesus literally told his disciples to buy swordsNote to any lurkers, Christians on /pol/ LOVE lying about this passage. However the lie is very rabbinical in nature. Yes there is a passage where Jesus tells a disciple to go buy a sword. The lie is that they don't tell you what happens after.
Jesus tells his disciple to buy a sword and come back; in Luke they just have two swords on hand. Judas shows up with the temple guards and betrays Jesus. In this moment, the disciples believe that Jesus asked them to buy the swords so they could fight back, and they cut off one of the arrester's ears.
Jesus however immediately rebukes this behavior and heals the damage. In Matthew he then gives the famous line that those who live by the sword will die by it too. He reminds his disciples that if he didn't want to be arrested he could summon a legion of angels and have the guards obliterated, but instead he just allows himself to be arrested, and the disciples scatter. A disciple buys a sword, only to get rebuked for using it.
The other aspect that you won't see discussed on /pol/ is that not only does this passage not indicate that Jesus wants you to fight anyone; there is no passage that suggests that in context; it also shows that Jesus only has the disciple do this so he can fulfill a prophecy about the Messiah. It's basically like if there was a prophecy that the Messiah would be arrested while wearing a green cloak and he had one of his disciples go buy a green cloak for him before he was arrested. Not only does that rob the passage of the suggestion that Jesus supports owning green cloaks or swords, but it's also kind of cheating isn't it? To just read the prophecy and then manufacture circumstances to match it?
I highly recommend that anytime you see a verse on here from these /pol/ Christians, just google it and then read the full chapter that it's from. You'll usually find it doesn't say what the /pol/ Christian wants you to think it says.
