So atheists, how do you explain Jesus correctly anticipating Protestant / Catholic war?
As in:
34Think I have not come to bring peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword.
35 for I have come to set man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter against her mother.
36And a man's foes shall be they of his own house.
The share of households could be the whole Church, and what happened? The enemies of the Church, if proestant or Catholic, were in the house of the church than I do. Memebers fought with a member, and thus, differences emerged. 
So how to explain this prediction accurate?
- How can I explain?
- How Protestant politicians explain the social, economic, etc. differences between Catholics and Protestants?
- Can you explain why the Catholic Religion seems to exalt Mary above Jesus?
- Explain the difference between Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christianity?
- Difference between Catholic and Protestant faith? How can I explain this to my Muslim friend?
They were at war with each other, while St. Paul was still active … you have not read any of Paul's letters, condemning "the wrong type of Christians? For someone like St. Paul says, certainly AP * ss-poor reading it ….
Jesus was not predicting the Protestant and Catholic divide. He was saying that, because of their faith, members of his own family people would turn against them.
The Catholic Church was announced several times in the New Testament. One passage says that those who would teach the "doctrines of demons", such as forbidding people to marry (such as priests, monks, nuns) and the command not to eat certain meats on certain days. Sounds familiar, right? And in Revelation, there are several chapters describing the great whore of Babylon, and after careful consideration it becomes clear that the Roman Catholic Church is the whore. * * That is where the Church is prophesied.
It is only if an accurate prediction is supposed to mean what you said that means. We have no way of knowing what he meant when he said that. He also said he came to set man at variance against his father. It was clear he meant me and my dad when he wrote and did not happen so his prophecy is incorrect. If you get the sense after the fact to fit the prediction is very easy to say it was fulfilled.
This quote is more like the rivalry between Christians and Jews, with the man that Christians and Jews is the father.
Regardles, Jesus knew what he was teaching was revolutionary and that people questioned his teachings. He did not really need to find 1500 or 2000 years in the future to see that … what was happening in his life already!
The families were divided by the Mason-Dixon line during the Civil War. Perhaps Jesus was talking about that?
This is one case of Christians to take something very, very vague, its application to something unimportant, and praising Jesus into heaven for his incredible vision.
I sincerely hope they are not as ignorant and desperate as the sound on this issue. You're clutching at straws, dear.
And where did you get the bit about "the home could be part of the whole Church"?
That's not a prediction. That is that the reinterpretation of the words and give whole new meaning to seem that there is a prediction. They have been doing that for ages with Nostradamus.
it isn't accurate. the fact that you have to say "could be" do not make an accurate prediction. is requiring that fits your idea. same with people who believe in psychics and what Nostradamus said. its so vague that it could be anything.
i read how that text is a family feud. as in, a specific house. and hey, it happens all the time! wow, Jesus must be correct. that's all I am a Christian since he predicted that some reactionary stabbing her son and mother's boyfriend slept with daughters …. See how that works?
You said it yourself
The part of the home> MAY <the whole Church
This "book" also says that the earth was created in 6 days so im still going to be skeptical TBH.
So predicts the Protestant / Catholic war? Oh, thanks for telling me. I thought he predicted any of the civil wars or wars of religion, etc.
You could easily be describing the Civil War, or the end of the Amercian Idol.
Yes, as you said COULD HAVE
where it is not what you say Catholic vs Protestant so I guess its not accurate
Relegating Christ to the level of Nostradamus Sylvia Browne or does nothing good for your deity.
That's a bigger leap of logic that has got there.
He called Miss Cleo. She said she would go from $ 3.99 per minute.
A heavenly dream having sex with Mary M.?
So Christian, how to explain Christians kill each other?
That's quite a stretch. I do not see how he was referring to the Catholic Church Protestant conflict.
This is an absurd interpretation, bizarre even by the standards of fundamentalist theology. There is no way I could go to Jesus comments on the internal conflict that will occur due to its radical message, to say that this is a metaphor for the sectarian conflicts that have plagued Christianity. Everything about the context of the message shows that he was talking about a human family, and not on the Church as a whole. Therefore, Christians, like you, are so unconvincing to many atheists. Every time you want to justify some extraordinary demand, we take a simple literal statement about a single event, and transform it, without justification, in a complex metaphor that describes something great. Getting rid of the reason my friend did not help his cause.