I am glad to see your Protestant Random Cherry-Picking Verse Generator (aka PRCPVG) is working properly, but you need to turn on the Rational Context-Interpreter (RCI) as well (and don't bother with Protestant model—they have a programming bug).
In the meantime, you may wish to use the God-given faculty of reason and ask yourself What did Jesus tell them to do with the sword? Execute people? Please don't embarrass yourself like this. But since you seem to insist, you may also remind yourself that when Peter used his dagger, Jesus told him to put it away.
Acts 5:1-11...Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. 5 And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost.[Peter speaking]...And Peter said unto her: Why have you agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold the feet of them who have buried thy husband are at the door: and they shall carry thee out, [i]mmediately, she fell down before his feet and gave up the ghost..."
If you consult the logic department in your God-given computer situated in your head, you will soon recognize that the "execution" in this case was done by God and not by Peter, because, as the scriputres remind us, vengeance belongs to God, not man, and not the Church.
No. Apparently Christ advised them to get a sword as a nifty decoration for the wall.
If you consult the logic department in your God-given computer situated in your head, you will soon recognize that the "execution" in this case was done by God and not by Peter, because, as the scriputres remind us, vengeance belongs to God, not man, and not the Church.
Then why did God wait for Peter to give the sign? Hint: it might have something to do with Christ giving the authority to Peter on earth.