[CA Conservative]

You are conflating 2 different scenarios. When Christ drove out the money changers, He did so because they were perverting the worship of God, turning it into a money-making enterprise. It had nothing to do with the “religious goods”.

Also, I don’t remember claiming that God would smite this pastor for his actions. I merely said this is a poor witness of the message of Christ to the world. God can deal with his soul - that is above my paygrade...

[rollo tomasi]

He did so because they were perverting the worship of God,...

And the Qur'an is endorsed as God breathed Scripture by Christ, give me a break with that theology. The Queer'an/Qur'an separates the individual from the true God (Which is why those early Christians destroyed pagan influences, yes, in the name of Christ and why Jesus did as well to His the very own seed of Abraham possessions).