Christ Brought a Sword, To Cut Through the Veil
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.
I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
— Jesus, Gospel of Matthew 10:34
When I was around eight years old, accompanying my Baptist best friend to his Christian summer camp, I remember how surprised I was hearing that famous line.
My thought process was probably familiar to you:
“Wait I was really liking this guy, the ‘love your enemies’ teaching is right on—but now he’s talking about bringing swords?
He’s either terribly inconsistent or they got some translations wrong.”
I was completely unaware of the underlying figurative language behind this verse. And Vacation Bible School did a pretty miserable job of conveying the literal vs. the symbolic.
Literally, Christ gave a sermon up on a mountain.
Symbolically, he brought a sword…
Many years later after my exposure to the great Paramahamsa Yogananda and Kriya Yoga, I discovered a lesser-known Biblical commentary book by the late Hindu master, entitled The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection Within You. Even the title…
