justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/24/16 at 13:53:37:Jog, my teacher grades with love.
I have no need to learn of what is dust.
I need nothing in this world that can provide what he can.
I am sorry you think I rebuff your sharing based on a premise you have....
It has nothing to do with you, or what you share.
The kingdom will come, his will be done, that is all I need to remember
That's simply The most eloquent argument for ignorance I've seen. Why are you even Here? You don't want to learn anything.
You've proven that.
Ya know, I have read the bible at least four times, every page.
Nowhere in the bible is ignorance held in high regard.
Did Jesus just shrug off the money changers?
Wasn't the End known Then?
Why care?
It's All been preordained, right?
UttOhh , how will you deal with reality?
Jog, one more attempt, then really, I'll let you continue, hoping it gives you satisfaction, resolution, peace.
I am not Jesus......
He can all knowingly, strike the money changers.
Similarities, yes, but as a follower I only have the capacity to share, what I have, with those that NEED it, if I have plenty.
For me to step into the role Jesus did in dealing with folks, removes me away from my first obligation.
For if I gave to those that needed, then they would not need to enlist the help of the money-changers at a profit, or set up the scenario where deceitfulness can flourish.....
The church has failed miserably, in our obligations to fellow men.
We have opted to allow the government, to provide for our brothers, so we could keep ours.
Neighbors used to help neighbors back in the days when it was life, and death.
Pretty obvious that if a persons home/barn burned down, they might perish.
Neighbors used to gather together, to rebuild that which burnt.
Now, we have insurance, or government programs, etc, that have taken away the very opportunity for us to be our neighbors keeper.
Yes, its an oversimplification, but the truth is still prevalent.
I assure you, when I die, if I am so beholden to my possessions, for I earned them, fair and square, and thus entitled by earthly reasoning....
That I leave instruction in my will, that a U-haul trailer is to be attached to the bumper of the Hearst, to carry those gatherings with me to the grave.....
It will make no difference to where I go. None.
To put my faith in something that has no real sustainable value, is the same argument that has you up in ganders about reserve notes, etc....
I am finished