Discernment and being able to detect patterns is a sign of intelligence that not all people possess. For instance, not all verses in Scripture are relevant to a particular moral point. I attempted to use verses with rocks compared to verses that don't mention rocks to establish a foundation upon which some basis to proceed with
@Justified could begin. Alas, it was too much for him to discern.
So, at the highest level of discernment, is the recognition of what is (or is not) relevant. The next level is to categorize how they are not relevant. Here is where I invoked the terms
spiritual and
soulful verses. Because the overly spiritualized lack understanding, they dismiss this as nonsense. However, it is easy to show there are spiritual verses, soulful verses and verses that contain both. One example of the latter is Christ talking about what our priorities should be @
Matthew 6:31-33
31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God[a] above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
Notice that Jesus does not tell us to have nothing to do with carnal, fleshly, worldly concerns? "These things" are soulful things our God will give us as well.
Yet, the overly spiritualized somehow got the idea that there is nothing we have to do on our part to get these soulful things. Proverbs 19:24
Lazy people take food in their hand but don’t even lift it to their mouth. We have soulful work to do! Yes, put your hand into the
spiritual food but also lift worldly, fleshy, carnal, literal food to your mouth to give the body what it needs!
And one thing we need is security; the security that the Crusades secured.
The first hint we get at soulful-spiritual division is Genesis 1, where God does soulful work for 6 days, literally
creating worldly, carnal, fleshy things! Soulful things, not Spiritual things, is literally the top priority of the almighty - and it should be our top priority also! Only then did he embrace the Spiritual rest.
6 days for soulful considerations; 1 day for spiritual focus. In that order!
The first of the 10 Commandments given to us at Genesis 16:23 suggests we were taking soulful concerns too far. Creation indicates a divine balance of what is good between soulful and spiritual, mundane and holy.
He keeps bringing up the “buy a sword” statement, when it has been repeatedly explained that two swords were inadequate for armed defense, and that the meager two swords were just so Jesus would be reckoned with the transgressors.
You dishonor Christ's words. He commanded 1 sword but they already had twice as much as what was needed.
For some reason, you call what Jesus says is adequate to be inadequate.
You have also brought up many times something that has been repeatedly explained to you.
"Live by the sword. Die by the sword" is not a prohibition against using force of arms - as Christ's command to buy a sword proves. There is no discernment in what you write, no sense of balance, reconciling verses.
We should not live to fight but live for God. He is our priority. That is the context in which our Lord told his followers to buy a sword. Live is a soulful concern. See Matthew 6:31-33.
