Jesus as the Peace
According to today's article posting by Chalcedon president, Mark Rushdoony, "peace" must always be on God's terms. As millions celebrate the "Prince of Peace" and thousands of churches rehearse the angelic proclamation, "Peace on earth," the concept of peace remains misunderstood. Man has always pursued peace, or "utopia," on his terms:
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Men have long dreamed of creating a final, lasting order, one that will timelessly survive all assaults. Babel was an early attempt at permanent order. In Christ's day Rome claimed it had achieved such an order in the Pax Romana, the Roman Peace. The "peace of Islam" is the state of all things being in submission or surrender to Allah and Muslim law. Other modern attempts at forced peace include the concept of utopia, the ideology of Marxism, and the one-world order of the internationalists.
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