Did Christ not fashion a whip and drive money changers from the temples?

Matthew 5:38-39 refers to personal offense

but we should not accept offense to God

When he talks about bringing a sword, reading the entire chapter clearly shows that he is taking about in that time when 1 Christian in a family would be outcast and he specifically mentioned brother vs brother and father vs son in reference to the fact that being Christian would see you be persecuted - and to not abandon your faith

Matthew 10:34-36

I’m aware

I do not clearly remember where in the Bible is speaks of it unfortunately, but there was an instance where a man talked ill of Jesus and oke of the apostles cut the man's ear for it but Jesus rebuked the apostle for it

I don't have that specific instance bookmarked so I don't remember where it talked about it

That was during the arrest of Jesus

John 18:10-11

Ah

Thanks

I do believe in defense of the Lord by less peaceful means just making that clear tho

I'm not a pacifist

I believe we have been pacifists for too long

I think we should forgive and help those in need who are willing to receive help

If they truly want help

We allow offense to God too often

I'm not talking about forgiving offense to God

There is no morality in Christian World anymore

People have forgotten God

For the most part, yes

and care not for help

I would even go as far as to say many recognize God, but sin out of nothing but hatred.

How would we go about fixing this?

Or is this a mark of the end times?

I believe our faith should never just give up

We are overdue for a cleansing of sin on a global scale

Similar to the great flood

I’m opposed to calling these days the end

We still have a chance to restore traditional Christian values back into our society.

Even if it means going against our own families

We must strive for righteousness

It will involve going against our families

Inevitably

Maybe not for all

But for most

My family is very religiously divided

Out of my siblings I’m the only Christian

and out of my family I’m the only Catholic