Quite so but that correct understanding will be met with profound silence and indifference. It’s so much easier to set up a charity and proclaim it is caring for “Christ’s brothers”.
Indeed.
It seems to me that a wise man would say, “doggone it, he’s right. I radically changed the meaning of the verse by leaving out the key phrase ‘in spirit.’ Maybe I don’t really understand the verse.” And then said wise man would get busy prayerfully studying the Scriptures to come to a biblical understanding of that verse and what it means to be “poor in spirit.” And if said wise man comes to recognize he has been misled by the spiritual authorities in his life he would get busy finding spiritual leaders faithful to God’s Word because he knows his eternal soul is at stake.
But most are not wise. They don’t really want the truth. They value their tradition, their way, over the Scriptures. Most lean on their own understanding, rationalize, and double down on error.
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”