Did Jesus often endorse contradictory behavior in his metaphors? Seems like his use of that particular metaphor is still an endorsement of the action itself. Like how he was pointing out something that is a commonsense truth and using that truth in his metaphor. At least that’s what I’m reading from the context.
His use of a spiritual metaphor is inherently an endorsement of the natural parallel that his metaphor is comparing. Just as arming yourself is sensible and necessary in the natural, that’s how sensible and necessary it is to arm yourself spiritually. Would you support a call to spiritual disarmament?
No, but Jesus is not calling for armed confrontation. He is calling for spiritual battle. That’s not to say being prepared to defend oneself is not appropriate. Just that this specific verse has a different intended meaning since he was about to leave them and given that Jesus acknowledged that they already had enough swords - clearly he was not telling them to go by swords, since he said they already had enough.
Did Jesus often endorse contradictory behavior in his metaphors? Seems like his use of that particular metaphor is still an endorsement of the action itself. Like how he was pointing out something that is a commonsense truth and using that truth in his metaphor. At least that’s what I’m reading from the context.
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His use of a spiritual metaphor is inherently an endorsement of the natural parallel that his metaphor is comparing. Just as arming yourself is sensible and necessary in the natural, that’s how sensible and necessary it is to arm yourself spiritually. Would you support a call to spiritual disarmament?
No, but Jesus is not calling for armed confrontation. He is calling for spiritual battle. That’s not to say being prepared to defend oneself is not appropriate. Just that this specific verse has a different intended meaning since he was about to leave them and given that Jesus acknowledged that they already had enough swords - clearly he was not telling them to go by swords, since he said they already had enough.
Agreed, that wasn’t his mandate to the disciples. His use of that example does affirm defending oneself with weapons more generally.