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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (18860)	9/22/2004 11:01:21 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Communism as I understand it is an economic organization that can only exist with coercive state power -- might need to revisit that definition, but ... moneychangers were in trouble for a couple of reasons, IMO. First, the temple wasn't the right place for that sort of activity. As a practical matter, currency had to be converted -- those travelling long distances bought animals for sacrifice, but the temple wasn't the right place for that activity. Second, these guys had a monopoly and had probably insisted that folks could buy nowhere else and be "right with God." And they charged exorbitant rates. The focus had been completely turned from worship to a commercial enterprise. Money changing -- currency conversion -- even the selling of animals to the worshippers coming from afar wasn't wrong in and of itself. On rich men getting into heaven, some context is good ... >>Matthew 19 24 "Again I say to you, (1) it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 25 When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, "Then who can be saved?" 26 And looking at them Jesus said to them, "(2) With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." << The disciples thought the rich had some kind of inside track. But riches here, more often than not, are a trap. Question of where ones allegiance / dependence is, right?? Many wealthy individuals in the OT were approved of God -- I don't think we have to be afraid of of our accounts going over a certain milestone because we'll be damned -- it's not how much you have -- but your attitude toward it and what you do with it while you are here, IMO. It's all God's. Got a stewardship entrusted to us -- only for a short time, though.