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This small site has been developed to find an agent, editor, and publisher for my book, Jesus Was A Pacifist, subtitle: How Jesus Taught World Peace-and why.  All of the items for a typical proposal are contained in the links on the left along with two of the most powerful chapters.  Feel free to comment in an email if you are moved to do so.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy looking around and discovering new perspectives of Jesus' teachings on peace.  

Everyone interested in the non-violent teachings of Jesus is welcome, too.  Please pass this site on to others, especially if you know people involved in the publishing industry or have expert knowledge of the Bible or the life of Jesus.   

(I could "self-publish" the book or put it on the web, but I value the contacts from the publishing industry and need their help and input to promote this message.)

The very simple proof why Jesus must have been a pacifist. . .

He told us he was!  "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the "sons of god."  (Matthew 5:9 and Luke 6:35).  He mentioned it in a humble quotation as the seventh beatitude.   Don't Christians call him the Son of God?  He told us you can be one too.

If Jesus could peer past 2000 years of increasingly destructive wars into the 21st century and see the two great nations His "Father gave Him" (John 10:29) armed to the teeth with giant nuclear weapons ready to annihilate each other, wouldn't He have done everything possible to warn us?  He did,  but we define His peace as calm and serenity and read His story to bring comfort.  Then we ignore and deny His most profound commandments:  "Love your enemies and pray for them so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven." and "do good to those who hate you," and "lend expecting nothing in return."    (Matthew 5:44-45, Luke 6:27, & Luke 6:35)  

There will always be conflicting desires and needs in societies but heaven could never house beings who settle differences by violence or war.  They would poison the very peace of heaven itself.    We are not instantly transformed into nonviolent people when "Thy kingdom comes" or as we step into heaven.

One of Jesus' important  missions was to warn us of this test, teach morality that makes for peace, and demonstrate to Our Father in heaven that an innocent human could forgive his killers while dying for the sake of peace.  Calling Him God does not lessen His humanity.  Accepting that Jesus preached and lived nonviolence clarifies and cements nearly all of His moral teaching especially the only promise we make to God-- our promise to forgive in the great prayer He taught, the Lord's Prayer.  Christians have been in denial about these truths of Jesus for the last 17 centuries, making "just war" on each other. 

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            Stephen C. Audretch

 

jesuswasapacifist@yahoo.com

 

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