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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Would you describe Jesus as harmless?


There are many who think Jesus is a pacifist.  There are some Scriptures out there were I think you could get that idea.  I ran across another one today.  It's a verse where Paul is describing Jesus. 

Hebrews 7:26(NKJV)
For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 

The word that seems out of place to me is harmless.  Let me offer a couple of other verses to illustrate why. 

Matthew 10:34-39(NKJV)
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 
For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 
and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’  
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 
He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

Revelation 19:15(NKJV)
Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 

Now let me be perfectly clear.  I am not criticizing Jesus or God here.  I'm fully on board.  What I am questioning is the word harmless to describe Jesus because I think it feeds into that pacifist view of Jesus. 

Harmless?  I don't know about you but based on the verses I provided it certainly looks to me like there are going to be a whole lot of folks suffering some harm for rejecting Jesus at some point!

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