“when you did good to these “least” you did it to me, and you will be deemed good and worthy of the God’s kingdom.”
Jesus Christ was not talking about GOVERNMENT action when he said that. He was talking about INDIVIDUAL action. The fact that government takes your property and gives it to someone else does not make you righteous. Nor does the fact that you take property from someone else and give it to the poor make you righteous. In order to receive the blessing He’s talking about, you’ve got to give YOUR OWN property to the poor.
“Jesus Christ was not talking about GOVERNMENT action when he said that. He was talking about INDIVIDUAL action. The fact that government takes your property and gives it to someone else does not make you righteous. Nor does the fact that you take property from someone else and give it to the poor make you righteous. In order to receive the blessing He’s talking about, you’ve got to give YOUR OWN property to the poor.”
This is exactly the key point. Jesus never told people to give their money to the GOVERNMENT, then have the government decide to whom they will hand out the goodies.
Jesus Christ was not talking about GOVERNMENT action when he said that. He was talking about INDIVIDUAL action. The fact that government takes your property and gives it to someone else does not make you righteous. Nor does the fact that you take property from someone else and give it to the poor make you righteous. In order to receive the blessing He’s talking about, you’ve got to give YOUR OWN property to the poor.
Your FReepername is spot on.
Nothing made me crazier than to have all those good folks applauding 0bama for his misuse of Christ's instructions. How any Christian can listen to the perversion of His Word and say, "Yes, that's what He means" is beyond me. People, when the man asked Christ how he could have eternal life, Jesus did not tell him to pass all his goods through the hands of government bureaucrats so that the poor might receive a dime from every dollar -- He told him to sell everything and give those proceeds to the poor.
To have 0bama and his minions claim selfishness because we are unwilling to allow government confiscation, use His Word and teachings to confuse so many, this is the real abomination. I simply cannot believe how many persons of faith are falling for this; it is heartbreaking.