What do you think these mean?

[Chuck1]

Hello,
I was wondering what this means , can anyone explain it ?

1. “I am someone who takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price.”
2. " is Jesus non violent or a pacfist ? "

Thanks chuck

 

[anruari]

Hello,
I was wondering what this means , can anyone explain it ?

1. “I am someone who takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price.”
2. " is Jesus non violent or a pacfist ? "

Thanks chuck

That depends on the wider context of the speaker. In the absence of that information I would assume:

1. The person speaking sees himself as someone who will not compromise on his interpretation of the Gospel. That affects his relationships with those around him. Those effects can have negative consequences for him. (or her)
   this could mean he (or she) has suffered victimisation due to religious discrimination.
   We live in a world where there are thousands of new Christian Martyers every day. This is something we rarely hear about in the West. He could be living in one of those countries.

This could mean the person has no tact and tries to “Spread the gospel” by trying to shove his beliefs down the throat of everyone near him and gets avoided shunned and ridiculed as a result.
It could mean something somewhere in the middle.

1. This is a question. I would say that Jesus teaches a message of Non Violence, He does not say that a Christian cannot be a soldier.
   He does speak strongly against the abuse of power and the killing of innocent lives.
   The catholic church has a clearly defined and well defended set of doctrines regarding when force and Lethal force is justifiable. When it is Right. and when refusing to be involved is an expression of Heroic Virtue.
   THey do teach that there is such a thing as a Just War.
   They do teach that a government has a right to have a standing army for defence purposes.
   The army should only be used defensively. not aggressively.

There have been a numbers of wars in our lifetime pursued by western powers that have been solidly condemned by the Church, as not meeting the requirements.

 

[R_C]

Hello,
I was wondering what this means , can anyone explain it ?

1. “I am someone who takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price.”
2. " is Jesus non violent or a pacfist ? "

Thanks chuck

It really depends…

1. The Lord was the Good News in itself, and he paid the price, but He never said such things. I would personally never say n.1 because knowing myself, I’d be saying it out of both pride and vanity, two root sins. Humbleness requires us to be meek, acknowledging that we are not paying a price, but receiving a well-deserved discipline for our terrible sinfulness.
2. Jesus is God, and God is perfect in all His ways. Violence is imperfection, for it is lack of peace and order. The very etymology of the word is traced by some to mean “an excess of what destroys”. Pacifism is a nice word, but it is in how we apply it that may be an extremism. If I refuse to bear arms to defend the innocent people that count on me, then I may wish to call myself pacifist, but I am offending God’s peace. The Lord said, instead: blessed the peacemakers, the makers of peace.