Extra Reading- Buddy Powers

In the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 10:34 Jesus says, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." A common miss conception of Christianity, particularly Jesus, is that he was a passive but loving man. This quote suggests otherwise. Jesus explains later in the speech this quote was taken from, that he will return to judge the earth. Aslan does not move in Narnia like pacifists, rather he leads the kings and queens of Narnia into battle against the evil of that world, the Witch. Jesus came to stand for good in the world, not to unite it under one great people. He came to call those who would follow him, to bring others to follow him, until he returns to defeat all those who would deny him. Through the story of myth in the Gospel of Matthew, the life of Jesus comes alive for many. In Myth Became Fact, Lewis argues that myth as a story is the only way to experience both experiential knowledge and abstract knowledge simultaneously. The gospel is an example of this kind of myth story. In this section, Jesus is making the claim that he stands for a specific way, the way to God, and he is predicting that the earth will become divided over this claim.