For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning...

[Mushroom]

He doesn't know the church I belong to and he has no idea who Jesus Christ is...

what's that saying? "to know him is to love him"... no wait... "real men love Jesus" ...or... "My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter"

[ZahZoo]

Odds are pretty good that this post is BS!

Dude, you're making it up as you go along...

Try reading some of the more current theological studies on various portions of the scriptures...

If people who study this stuff for living can't agree on symbolism and inuendo in many of the writings... what makes you think some guy in the pulpit's interpretation filtered through his chuch's politics and agenda are all that logical and inspiring..?

[ELVIS]

Why are you so biased based on nothing that you have presented so far ??

Give me one solid example of what you're talking about...

[Jesus Christ]

what's that saying? "to know him is to love him"... no wait... "real men love Jesus" ...or... "My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter"

I was really only in the carpentry business for a short time, in reality.

My stepfather Joseph died when I was a teenager and none of My brothers were old enough yet to take on the responsibility of the business. So I took over for a while, just to support My family. And verily, when My brother James was old enough to handle the business, I turned it over to him.

And now that I know, from personal experience, what it feels like to have a nail pounded into Me, it's not a line of work I could ever do again.

[ELVIS]

Asshole!

[Satan]

Oh, you're so going to Hell for that.

[Guitar Shark]

Jesus warns of the accumulation of wealth becoming your god. He never said wealth was bad. He said it was impossible to worship two gods. It's the same with idolatry...

I've read this post several times and I still don't understand it.

So, wealth is ok, but it's not ok to accumulate it? How is one to become wealthy without accumulating wealth?

In any event, I think you are forgetting the camel/needle thing. Look it up.

[Jesus Christ]

Very well said, Matthew. Ye might make it into Heaven yet.

[Nickdfresh]

And BTW, in his writings, Luther accused the Catholic church of heresy, as well as directly challenging the position of the clergy in regard to individual salvation...

Salvation has everything to do with Jesus Christ...

And he would accuse many protestant churches of the same thing today...

[Guitar Shark]

Very well said, Matthew. Ye might make it into Heaven yet.

Not a chance, bud.

[Big Train]

And he would accuse many protestant churches of the same thing today...

And he would still be right...

[Jesus Christ]

Verily....

[Ally_Kat]

I've read this post several times and I still don't understand it.

So, wealth is ok, but it's not ok to accumulate it? How is one to become wealthy without accumulating wealth?

In any event, I think you are forgetting the camel/needle thing. Look it up.

I think, in a way, Elvis is trying to say that money is not the root of all evil, but avarice.

[ELVIS]

Correct. The LOVE of money is the root of all evil...

It leads to greed, or avarice...

[binnie]

But wouldn't you agree that since the 1980s the West has essentially been a society that loves, and indeed worships, wealth?

Aren't a lot of people motivated almost solely by the accumulation of it? Big house, big car, big pension, lots of 'stuff'. Isn't that 'dream' essentially what capitalism thrives on?