Luke 12:51

[weaponoffreedom]

Bible Gateway passage: Luke 12:51 - New International Version

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.

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this is a pretty clear statement:

Not Peace but Division​

49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

 

[TheFiend]

Bible Gateway passage: Luke 12:51 - New International Version

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.

www.biblegateway.com

this is a pretty clear statement:

Not Peace but Division​

49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

...thats...a clear statement?

Well she'it, the only clarity I see from it, is the overtly perceptible wordspells which for one thing seem to literally be contradictory.

For example: in 1 Corinthians:

-"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

Another example in Mathew:

-"“Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God”

Furthermore, the biblical interpretations of:

*Peace
&
*Division

•Peace: "The term "peace" is used in the New Testament in at least five different ways: (1) peace as the absence of war or chaos, (2) peace as a right relationship with God or with Christ; (3) peace as a good relationship among people; (4) peace as an individual virtue or state, that is, tranquillity or serenity; and (5) peace as part of a greeting formula."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026009438703800201?journalCode=tbtd#:~:text=The%20term%20%22peace%22%20is%20used,serenity%3B%20and%20(5)%20peace

•Division: "The word division means two visions. In the Christian life, there is a battle going on for two competing visions. One is God's Kingdom, a Kingdom of Light, and the other is Satan's Kingdom, a Kingdom of Darkness. Whatever God creates, Satan counterfeits."

The Danger of Division

Better Together - There's A Dark Side To Division

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