Posted on 09/29/2019 7:48:47 AM PDT by Salvation
People who can’t pass interviews may not be factually incapable of working, they may have other issues that make them unemployable that they could easily overcome if they wanted to. Those people aren’t hard cases who cannot work, they’re some shade of nitwit who refuses to be the sort of people who can be trusted to work the jobs they’re applying for.
Please note the contrasting response to the landowner who asked them why they were idle: we haven’t been hired is not we don’t do good work or we aren’t eager to work.
But in our culture it has been distorted by our wealth, that even our “poor” are often among the most affluent / rich humans who’ve ever lived. I would submit that we’ve only got so many people who could work but who are ill suited to work because they want comfort without striving, they’ve got rich man’s hearts but barely have even a poor man’s skill set.
More and more they come with massive student debt for educations that by design only taught them to be nitwits (your proverbial insert here social studies for instance).
I think it refers to him still being able to pass himself off as an angel of light.
What if they hate Second Thessalonians Chapter Three Verse Ten, and insist that the New Testament is communism?
What if they intentionally conflate the crippled with the poor, and insist that verses regarding the two be merged into one?
Goes back to Paul and before I think to Isaiah.
Your comment reminds me of the bourgeois priest in the well-off congregation who every year dreaded to preach on the Gospel passage, “Woe to you rich.”
Was just saying regarding James.
Just going with James.
Jesus was talking about individual spiritual growth... not government style programs ...
Someone needs to get real here... Jesus was not a shallow white liberal eltie.
He is certainly NOT engaging in bombastic rhetoric so the "schlemeils" will "cough up some more shekels than usual to his holy cause." "His holy cause"? Indicting a man for something he didn't say --- words you yourself put in his mouth!
And obviously, you have no clue whether he's eating Filet Mignon or the cheaper cuts of macaroni.
Think about that carefully before you slander good pastors --- or good anybody.
Think as well about this as well, the prophet's words which are the first, OT reading for the "Rich Man and Lazarus" Sunday liturgy:
Reading 1 Amos 6:1a, 4-7Thus says the LORD the God of hosts:
Woe to the complacent in Zion!
Lying upon beds of ivory,
stretched comfortably on their couches,
they eat lambs taken from the flock,
and calves from the stall!
Improvising to the music of the harp,
like David, they devise their own accompaniment.
They drink wine from bowls
and anoint themselves with the best oils;
yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph!
Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile,
and their wanton revelry shall be done away with.
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“Please cite passage about satan being light to fool us. Thanks”
Not “being” Light as that is not possible. I think I used the word “imitating” the Light.
The entirety of 1 John is teaching us how to sort the imitators from the real thing.
That is satan imitating the Light. There are more and I thank you for the question. My time is tight today, but I will pray on providing a better response.
This is the reason for 1 John 4
4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
1 John 5
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.
Enabling the poor is worse than ignoring them.
I don't know who your Mr Pope is teaching/preaching to but it is not born again Christians...We Christians have been judged already, and found to be just...We are under grace and NOT the law...We Christians are not under bondage to feed the poor or face hell as Catholics are...
Joh_14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
And we have the same Father in us who is in Jesus...
It's what you people don't understand...Even tho we don't have to we want to do good...It is God in us who leads us that way...
Several months before I read 1 John 4 for the first time I had two spirits approach me as the grandparents of the woman I was working with. They had gray hair and blue eyes, thus everything appeared ok.
However, I had this big knot in my stomach, a warning that the Holy Spirit is saying “Beware.”
Suddenly the words, “Do you believe that Jesus was born in the flesh?” Came out of my mouth.
They replied, “We know Jesus.”
The words from my mouth responded, “That was not the question” and repeated the first question.
Their eyes turned from blue to black and then to red as their true nature came out.
At which time I prayed for them and they screamed in response to the Light.
This is only one of many such situations. The Bible is the truth and it has saved my sorry butt many times.
Logic does not protect us from evil as satan is quite the trickster. That intuitive feeling that women get is better at recognizing evil. But nothing beats the Holy Spirit in you doing the work.
Maybe that message should go to the Pope and the immense wealth that the RCC has and continues to gather and share it with the poor
the more one tries to help others the more one is punished
There are no poor in America.
Last week’s Gospel, the rather opaque parable of the Dishonest Steward, was followed by a few lines explaining that the Pharisees were lovers of money and took Jesus’s remarks very poorly.
“God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable to God.”
Are you refuting something Fr. Pope said here?
Just who are you identifying as "you people"?
Are you prepared to say you what is in their hearts and minds?
Sure there are. Children of absent fathers and crack-head mothers. Frail, elderly parents of thieving adult children.
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