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Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
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NOTE: the Spirit of Jesus was wise beyond words.. Semantics and Parseing Peace into Division and Parsing Division into Peace is wall against truth.. Because, There is a time to Divide and time for Peace.. The Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth.. which includes BOTH..

That Jesus came to send a sword does not show that every sword was sent by Jesus. That a man in Agrippa's court called Paul "mad" does not mean that no one is a sociopath.

And Clintoon's misuse of "parsing" with the intention to mislead (has anybody here ever been asked by his Latin or Greek teacher to "parse a sentence"? Does anybody know what the word means?) does not mean that all parsing is mendacious.

Clearly there is a time for peace and a time for war. That neither justifies nor excuses every war-maker.

Not everyone who is filled with a passionate intensity is called by the Holy Spirit. Not all false prophets know they are false. Jesus prophesied family division, but not all those seek and work for division of families do God's will, or Elisabeth Taylor would be canonization material.