Posted on 05/27/2008 4:10:47 AM PDT by drbasketball
While visiting New York in 2005, Nita Ambani was in the spa at the Mandarin Oriental New York, overlooking Central Park. The contemporary Asian interiors struck her just so, and prompted her to inquire about the designer, Forbes reports.
Nita Ambani was no ordinary tourist. She is married to Mukesh Ambani, head of Mumbai-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries... Forbes estimated Ambanis net worth at $43 billion in March.
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I'm sure a lot has been lost in translation, about who and what constituted "rich" in the society of that time.
Besides, Jesus also asked of us to not judge anyone.
While pointing out hypocrisy and imperfection among some of those who considered themselves “righteous”, Jesus did not ask us “not to judge each other”.
Jesus was not the liberal dream of some “get along, go along, not my business what you do” kind of guy.
What He told us was that HE was not here to judge us but to prepare us for the time when God would surely do so.
Big difference.
Yes, that's Jesus, and not one of us, or even someone for us, to emulate exactly. That's why the people were commanded to 'judge not, lest ye be judged'.
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