I see this, and am not ignoring it. It is a new thrust to me, and I need time to analyze it. In my present thoughts, without checking though the context of the Luke citation is a sort of counter to the previous admonition by Jesus that his disciples go out and give testament possessing just the sandals on their feet and the clothes that they were wearing without giving a second's thought to their future provisioning, in faith knowing it would be provided. And also a badly reformatted by me: click the dust off of your sandals and move along when meeting those who refuse to listen. The Corinthians cite, I cannot begin to get a feel for, but have often found, justifications attributed to Paul fall apart with a wider look into the surrounding text. It's pretty tough to refute as a statement of pure pacifism:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:35,36
I also feel than decorum compels me to again state, I claim no faith, and for that reason, would advise caution when engaging me. We play by differing rule-sets,and I have in the past bound people by their rules, not mine. It can lead to very unequal positioning.
will peace
