Christ Came to Divide, Not Unite

   In recent times, I’ve become increasingly aware of a tendency among believers (and even some non-believers) to promote the belief that Jesus came into the world to unite everyone together.  And that if a division exists, it must not be the will of God.  This belief often promotes a false unity, or a least-common-denominator acceptance of anything and everything under the banner of unity at all cost.  But the Holy Bible says otherwise.

   Jesus Himself disproves that notion with the following:

   “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:  I came not to send peace, but a sword.  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.  And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”  (Matthew 10:34-36).

   Christ is saying that He came to cause division between people.  He even stated that a man’s enemies will even be those of His own household.  And the reason is Jesus Himself:  dividing those who are fully dedicated to Him from those who aren’t.  To our modern-day minds, this sounds extreme, and so “unlike Jesus.”  But it is true and Biblical none-the-less.

   The Lord Jesus Christ causes division between people in many areas.  He wants follow ...