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You've taken that "I come to bring a sword" passage totally out of context. [b]It was completely metaphorical, [/b]which a simple Google could have told you immediately, within the first 1-3 search returns. We all know, however, that  even basic inquiry is beyond you.

Sorry. You don't have a "gruesome" quote from Jesus., and you won't find one. You just have  two letters from two guys who were trying to interpret Jesus for their era but who weren't Jesus. Duh. And a bunch of random stuff from the Old Testament. Duh again. I doubt you're self-aware enough to be embarassed, although you should be.[/quote]

Of course -- all the uncomfortable stuff in the bible is metaphorical.  But the stuff about Jesus being the way to heaven -- that's for real.

How can you tell one from the other?  It's a matter of faith.
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But this one [i]is[/i] metaphorical. Jesus talked in parables and metaphors all the time.[/quote]

All the time? so everything he said was a metaphor?  like "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

Or are the metaphors developed to interpret that which that runs counter to one's own beliefs or preferred view of Biblical teachings?
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