The 5 wise virgins carried out their responsibility to light the way for the bridegroom and were not reprimanded by the bridegroom for refusing to share their oil with the 5 foolish virgins.
Jesus never once told us to support government-run health care. He would NEVER condone a health care plan that paid for abortion. He would never support the forcible confiscation of wealth from one group of people for benefit of another.
Of all the things the left does, I would say that perversion of the The Gospel ranks up there at the top. Although I get a good laugh out of pro-baby-killing leftists questioning my Christian faith as they point out that I am supposed to support this health law because I am supposed to help "the least of people."
Jesus would tell you do give from your own pocket, labors, and time to feed and clothe the poor and to heal the sick.
When someone in our little town underwent a battle with cancer and racked up medical bills, the whole town turned out and had fundraisers to help pay them down.
Nobody put a gun to anybody’s head and said “you will pay or go to jail” like Obamacare does.
When you force behavior at the point of a sword you deprive the person of moral choice. You render them subservient, but not necessarily “good”.
We used to be a moral nation and now we are just becoming subservient.
They sound like little children, not adults! GROW THE ____ UP! You CAN'T be a child all of your life. And you need to THINK about your relationship with God BEYOND what you learned in Sunday School AS A CHILD!
Sorry, rant off.
Jesus, would want us to voluntarily help those in need. At no point in the Bible did he ever force anyone to follow him, or help him, or help anyone. Jesus is the Son of God, and God give us free will, his greatest gift.
I hope he follows up with an article about corban - how the Pharisees were using the money that was supposed to be used to provide for their parents and used it as a supposed “offering” instead. Jesus rebuked their willingness to manipulate the law in order to appear holy and compassionate on the outside while in fact shirking their direct responsibility - caring for their own family.
Seems to me like there are some direct correlations in there.
Seems like the Good Samaritan was “good” because he wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming into helping the man who needed him but because he did it willingly. If the leaders who passed on the other side of the injured man had grabbed the Samaritan, stolen his money, and used it to take care of the injured man the story would lose everything. The potential for sacrificial grace and the love and thankfulness it creates would be destroyed.
That’s what communism does. It makes love die. That’s why drug abuse, abortion, and suicide are so common in societies where the freedom and ability to love in tangible, voluntary ways are gone.
what people don’t quite get is that the health care bill isn’t about helping anyone... it’s about securing power for the fedgov.
as soon as this goes into effect... doctors will find their taxes jacked up radically (actually, even before the bill goes into effect). they will also find their waiting rooms start to fill up with people expecting ‘free’ healthcare.
this is all it takes for what would happen next.
doctors, not thrilled to have their work week increase from 50 hrs/wk to 80+ hrs/wk... while making less money... will look elsewhere for employment (like anyone would do)
many doctors will just retire, as a large number of doctors from the baby boom generation are just about ready to retire.
other doctors will work overseas under ‘doctors without borders’... and keep their money, untaxed, in overseas accounts. illegal? maybe... but then again, healthcare is unconstitutional.
as the number of doctors retiring/moving increases... the patients in their waiting rooms go to the next doctor. increasing his load. making it more likely for him to retire/move...
as this continues, waiting times for doctors will start to increase. in scotland, my uncle was told he had to wait 18 months for a cancer check... he was 66 at the time. (he had other means and went to another country to get treatment)
as the waiting times increase... costs will increase... next will be triage... otherwise known as rationing.
The 5 wise virgins carried out their responsibility to light the way for the bridegroom and were not reprimanded by the bridegroom for refusing to share their oil with the 5 foolish virgins.