The Purpose of Christ’s Coming

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34  … and on earth peace….Luke 2:14b … The Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:6b Higher criticism delights to find contradictions in the Bible. Well, the above texts seem to teach such. On the one hand we have heard the song of the nightingale in the Old Testament: Isaiah. He sang beautifully of the coming of Jesus. And he told us even of the various names which He would bear. In Isaiah 9:6 we read, "For...