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If Jesus truly is God, not separate from God, like the Church have always claimed through the doctrine of the trinity, his moral character must be consistent across time. The same God who commanded war in the Old Testament cannot suddenly declare all warfare inherently evil without violating His own nature. That would render God internally contradictory.

Thus, it makes much more sense to interpret the peace oriented teachings of Jesus to be directed to individuals rather than the collective/organisations. His message is about peace among individual human beings, not about political pacifism.

This is precisely how Augustine framed it in the just war tradition. Ultimately an approach to warfare which forms the ethical framework in all of modern warfare.
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RedTailHawk 9mo ago

Everything is God...Jesus...you...me...Earth...your keyboard...your touchscreen...the steak you ate yesterday...it's all God.

I can't put this clearly enough: if a person's understanding of Christianity has been derived from any modern mainstream Christian teachings, that person's understanding of Christ's teachings is heavily distorted.

The Doctrine of the Trinity is echoed in every religious and esoteric wisdom tradition. Embody characteristics that are penetrative or emissive like Wisdom, Power, and Victory. These are the "masculine" traits of the Divine. The Divine also has "feminine" traits which may be characterized as "receptive". This includes things like Understanding, Mercy, and Glory.

Just like Yang and Yin, Shiva and Shakti, Victory and Glory, Power and Mercy, Wisdom and Understanding, Ka and Ba, Alpha and Omega, the Doctrine of the Trinity is about how anyone gets to go to heaven, to use parlance Christians would be most familiar with.

To go to heaven essentially requires enlightenment which is what Matthew 10:16 is talking about. In order to do that, one must embody, balance, and unite the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine characteristics.

What happens when you unite the Divine Masculine with the Divine Feminine?

You get a Divine Child, or what has become translated as a "Son of God".

Jesus came to teach us how to become Divine Children. He'd already done that before so he came back here to show us how it's done. We gotta love our neighbors unconditionally, expecting nothing in return. We need to speak truth. We need to respect free will. We need to serve others.

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