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To: Wuli
In fact, the Roman Catholic Pope seems to have felt free to totally mischaracterize Zaccgaues to make his point.

Luke19:8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Please enlighten us on exactly where the good Pope mischaracterized Zacchaeus.

32 posted on 05/26/2013 10:34:01 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

Zacchaeus was not a money lender, he was a tax collector;

his living did not come from “usery”, like loan sharking

he was part of the Roman/Herodian system of taxing the people


38 posted on 05/26/2013 1:01:29 PM PDT by Wuli
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