Cheerful Charlie
Contributor
If you've read the Gospels, do any of those actions sound like Jesus's Commandments to you? As it's written many come in his name but not all who do will be accepted.Then how did Christians come to hack each other up or reduce each other to ashes, in centuries past, in defense of their vision of Jesus and his commandments? (Um...I think I know, actually. Some of 'em or all of 'em were blind to the true teachings, right?)If people actually followed Jesus and his commandments there'd be no wars, poor or hungry!
It's not against God to be rich or wealthy by honest work not greed, therefore not being a binding law, your would-be prediction may not be on point. It doesn't say give up everything to be purposely homeless, poor or hungry "therefore riches in heaven".If none of us "lay up treasures on earth", worry about food and drink, worry about tomorrow at all, on the theory that God feeds the birds of the air, so we'll be taken care of, then there better be a permanent, sustaining social security system, 'cuz Suze Orman and I predict a ton of bankruptcies, homelessness, and hunger.
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Mark 10, Luke 12, 14, 18, Matthew 19
Sell all you have and give to the poor. Plus supporting verses.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to
gain the kingdom of God. You cannot serve mammon and God. Etc.
The Bible is quite clear. The kingdom of heaven is coming soon, soon, soon!
And having wealth is an evil. Which will prevent you earning a place
in this new Kingdom Of God. It did not come soon, soon, soon as promised.
And if it still is as per so many Christians today claim, commands to sell all
you have and give to the poor still stand. Unless you wish to be excluded
from the Kingdom Of God coming with Christ soon now.
Most American children usually no longer believe in Santa after the age ten.
Well, most of them anyway. Wait until every American child by the age ten
learns to to earn salvation when Jesus reappears has to sell all they have and
give to the poor. Teaching the Bible in American schools may not be the best
way to spread Christianity.
Who here loves Jesus as per John 14?
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Luke 14
33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath,
he cannot be my disciple.