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To: Arthur McGowan

We are born in sin. We are conceived in iniquity, dead in trespasses and sin from the start. We don’t need to ignore the poor to go to Hell. By nature that’s where we are headed. Dives had more than enough sin to damn him long before he ever encountered Lazarus. There is nothing about that parable that can rightly be used to support the violation of personal property rights of one man to assist another man.

Any man whose sin was not fully atoned for on the cross by will go to Hell, whether he gave ever cent he had to help the poor or not.

I’m not arguing against helping the poor. I’m all for it. Part of how we help them is to establish a fair economic system that protects personal property rights and supports the very clear Biblical prohibition of theft.


74 posted on 02/04/2014 8:22:02 PM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt

The idea that a starving man has no right to steal a loaf of bread is kooky.


75 posted on 02/04/2014 9:28:07 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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