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🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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0:00.0 | In Matthew 1034 through 36 from the Bible, Jesus says, do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. |
0:07.0 | I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. |
0:09.2 | For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. |
0:18.2 | According to many religious-based websites and articles, this Bible verse is |
0:21.7 | conveying that Jesus was sent to earth to encourage people to follow God, and that in order to do so |
0:26.3 | properly, they might have to turn their backs on their loved ones, the ones who don't believe |
0:30.3 | anyway. However, religions rooted in Christianity also insist that Jesus was a peaceful person sent to |
0:36.2 | earth to show us how much God loves us |
0:38.0 | and to spread the word of God. How is it that the same person who literally says in this Bible verse |
0:43.2 | that he was not sent to earth to bring peace can also be revered as a universal symbol of peace and love? |
0:49.1 | How can someone who encouraged the abandonment of familial relationships in order to focus on God |
0:53.7 | also be credited with teaching us all to love thy neighbor? Was Jesus actually a being encouraged the abandonment of familial relationships in order to focus on God, |
0:56.7 | also be credited with teaching us all to love thy neighbor. |
0:59.3 | Was Jesus actually a beacon of peace and love? Or was he sent here to punish those who chose not to believe the things that God, or he claimed that God, |
1:05.3 | wanted us to follow and he was sent to teach us? |
1:08.4 | Are you a religious person who wants to share your thoughts on who Jesus was and why he actually might have been sent to Earth? |
1:14.1 | Our phone lines are open. Give us a call because our show is starting now. |
1:25.5 | Hello, welcome everybody. Today is February 23rd, 2025. I am your host, Sydney Davis Jr. Jr. |
1:31.1 | And joining me are objectively Dan and Ben, how are you gentlemen doing today? What's new? What's going on? |
1:36.3 | Doing all right, Sydney. It's great. We're all wearing black today. That was purely by coincidence, but we do look like we're part of a metal band. |
1:44.8 | For Mime Group. |
1:45.7 | I think it's cool. |
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