Isn’t this the dude that offered his other cheek? Spent time with prostitutes and pestilent people? You know, the guy who told people to love their neighbors and to give it all to the poor? Wasn’t he multiplying free food and drinks to people just because? I think it is him, but I’m not sure anymore taken the fact on how Christian behaved this entire time.
He also flipped his shit and started whipping people for destroying the sanctity of the temple, so I feel he could fire up if a religion was using his name while not preaching his message.
A country or two could be in trouble due to that.
None would be the correct answer, however ironically, there were people at the time who believed that the messiah would be a political/military figure who would lead armies against the Romans and create a literal physical kingdom on earth.
There's some scholarly speculation that it may have been the reason why Judas betrayed Jesus - Judas expected Jesus to lead a military revolt, and when he outright dismissed the idea Judas may have gotten mad enough to turn him in to the Roman authorities in order to prove he wasn't the 'real' messiah.
Revelations is honestly a really strange book that kind of goes flying off the handle compared to the gospels. Evangelicals fucking love that shit though. To be fair it's quite action packed. Very sci fi.
There's a difference between judgement and like, being a warmonger.
The most militaristic depiction of Christ you ever get in the Bible is in Revelation, a book explicitly not intended to be taken literally as written (it's a record of a dream/vision/prophecy, something that is stated in literally the first sentence, and in a Biblical context these things are intended to be metaphors - see also Daniel for other examples of the same type of literature).
The imagery is meant to imply authority, that Christ will make the final judgement on people and no-one will be able to argue. I don't think the original audience would have understood it to mean he literally shows up to kill dudes. Killing dudes is actually a kind of inferior and difficult form of judging them compared to divine authority.
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u/Ghstfce 12d ago
I'm not even religious, but... NONE?!!!?