University:
Seton Hall University
Course:
RELS1503 | Christian ethics
Academic year:

2024
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162

Pages:

2
Author:

Andrea B.

Andrea Borg Professor Ethics 11/18/2021 Journal Jesus always wanted everyone to be connected to each other and have peace with each other. However, this is not the case in the world we live in, there are a lot of battles and conflicts in society. One area in which there has been a lot of conflict in the USA is due to the political view of citizens. For example, there has recently been a lot of battles between the Trump supporters and the Biden supporters which has caused riots, which invites people to be violent with one another. Jesus would obviously be very disappointment in what Is going on because he always wanted to spread peace. In class we were analyzing each line from Matthew and the line I got to analyze was Matthew 5:8 which quotes “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”, which I initially thought the meaning was that if your heart is good and you go all out to be a good guy not just halfway then you will see God, so God is always trying to make people do the right choices but that is not the case with all the political battles and also another line that we analyzed was “blessed are the merciful, for they will show mercy”, the way I interpret this is like love your enemies and always be forgiven because if that is being done then there will eventually be peace and no more war between individuals or parties. Overall, yes people always have their own views in life and battle each other because they want to fight for what they think is right but, at the end of the day I agree with what Jesus wants for the people and that is for everyone to have peace with one another and to show mercy to each other to create that.