 89. Jesus or Christ |
"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a "sword" is one of the controversial statements reported of Jesus in the Bible.
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a father, and 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 household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39 NASB)
The correct understanding is:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace (egoic) on the earth; I did not come to bring peace (a peaceful life in the "separate and fallen" state), but the sWORD of truth (but the "word" of truth). For I come to set a father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, father divided against son, (i.e., my "word" of truth will awaken those who will want to return to the "Christ state" of being against those who do not believe and remain in the separate and individualized state of being - the ego-I state which is the anti-christ or anti-direction of spiritual evolution). He who loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me, (i.e., He who still has psychological and emotional attachments to others does not have the courage or faith to transcend or leave the human mind and return to his/her true spiritual state of being...where true love can be given instead of "emotional" human love.) He who found his life (firmly established him/her self as a separated being will lose his/her eternal life as spirit, and he who has lost his life (as the separate ego-I state of being or fallen state) - has found it in the eternal Christ state (not Jesus) and has eternal life as spirit.
For I am in our father and our father is in me, and we are in you, and you are in us already. For the SPIRIT-SELF of our father is the same SPIRIT-SELF of you and of each living human being on the earth. KNOW THY SELF and experience your SELF as eternal spirit, when you KNOW THY SELF, (as spirit) then you will be known (recognized by God) and you will understand (the REVELATION) that you are the children of the living father. But if you do not know your selves (as eternal spirit) then you live in poverty (spiritual poverty) and are the poverty. (Becoming identified with the non spiritual condition of the psychological-person-ality) and if you see one who is not born of woman (born again into spiritual enlightenment and God-self-realization) fall on your face and worship. That one is your father (a person who has attained, or returned to God-self-realization, and is one and the same as God as I am one and the same as God), also be passers by, remain inward, (inner witness) disassociated and unidentified with the secondary reality of the world (creation) and also that of the outer physical body which you experience life from . . . . . . . . . . . .
