Well Jesus says the Govt has the right to sway the sword but warns us about using it

you a Christain btw?

Definitely against it but still allows it

Christian*

I am a Follower of the Way

Yes basically

Catholic?

No

I don't believe in the traditional devil

I also believe Jesus already came back in the 1st century

I see

satan is actually just a term of position to reference an adversary which is always a human being if you read the scripture closely.

satan isn't capitalized either in the greek

common term in hebrew thought actually. Never meant to be a name of a person. Same with devil just means traducer.

Heaven and Earth is a reference to the Temple and old covenant Israel. The world did come to an end according the revelation which would be the old covenant world.

I'm not a big religious person myself, you seem to be very religiously-informed. Dedicated I guess

Jesus tells Peter to Get behind me satan

Peter was the adversary

Very simple

Whatever you say

also jesus being tempted by satan in the wilderness is clearly about the pharisees tempting him with the messianic test of messiahship by asking him to turn stones into bread. The chapter before you see the common theme of the pharisees following jesus everyone he went.

Unfortunately people don't read the Bible from a first century Jewish context so they make up tons of shit

I don't read the Bible at all lol

Well I've spent probably 10,000 hours studying the book and the culture

Christ, that's more than a year of pure study. You must have a lot of spare time

I sometimes will just speak entire books of the Bible by memory. It's crazy

It's my job and my major

Oh so you're still in college

yep

What year

working on my masters

Why go to college instead of seminary?

It is a seminary

Well then

I also study Greek and Hebrew

have minors in both.

Hope you do well as a Priest

I will try lol

I just want people to be taught the truth and that's it

You don't have to believe it but I'm at least going to present it correctly

So why are you becoming a priest then?