I think recent disasters helped me understand "YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY?"?
Matthew 24:6 "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." For years I struggled to understand how you could live your life devoted to making money and DESPISE/HATE GOD. But after seeing the destruction from the Philippines Typhoons, Earthquakes in Indonesia , and the Tsunami in Samoa in just a matter of days, I think I have a better understanding... right? If you spend your life chasing after money and possessions (Jesus said its near impossible to be rich and go to heaven, and to leave everything behind and serve him), then one day a flood, earthquake or tsunami comes and takes everything you own and worked your life to achieve... you will weep and mourn over your loss and despise God (possibly without knowing) that you lost all your money and possessions. So if you serve money and are in love with possessions and riches you are bound to despise the day its all taken away from you (and God in doing so). But if you instead spend your life serving God there is no need to want riches because even though you have nothing you have spiritual riches and riches in heaven stored up. Because all worldly things can be taken away at any time, but heavenly riches you cannot lose! I'm sure there is more to it then just this, and this was just one way to put it.... but what do you think makes sense right?
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RELIGIOUS BS TO KEEP PPL POOR.
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What an original concept? Why didn't the Buddhists and Hindu gurus think of it first?
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money and god serves the church, and you serve the church through god
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If Jesus Christ taught these things, He was speaking in our best interest. He really has a much better perspective of ultimate reality than we do. I would to God the Church would learn it.
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Wonderful
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People have died. Families have been ripped apart. Babies have lost their lives and others will grow up motherless - and all you have the gall to do is point your hypocritical finger of blame in their direction and pretend to be righteous. People like you make me sick. It makes me realize that you don't understand compassion, you just want to lord it over those you feel are less than you are.
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Sorry but why would a God be interested in the likes of us and our petty doings. Drown thousands of people in a mass genocide. Surely you are not suggesting that every person who died or lost everything is being paid back for some silly slight to a God. Or as a rap on the knuckles to start fawning to it. Nonsense. What's that saying 'shite happens', pick yourself up and start again. There is no giant invisible sky fairy puppet master. God is an idea, a blanket expression to label ignorance, not a giant invisible sky fairy to wish upon. Practicing shaman... quantum physics rocks
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Even Atheists like me need to know to not serve money. Being rich isn't about serving money... It's about letting your money serve you. If your church or bible says the being rich is a sin or is a bad thing, then they are completely wrong. The more money you make, the more good you can do in the world. If you only want to make enough to keep yourself comfortable then you're just selfish. If you feel that it's not selfish, then look at all the starving children around the world. Being rich isn't bad. Serving money is.
