RE: Material wealth -
11-16-2005, 05:49 AM
The way the person who argued put it to me was:
Basically in the bible there are:
1) Prophets (messengers of God); This includes people like Elijah, John thr Baptist and for the sake of simplicity, let us include Jesus Christ. Now these messengers tend to live in poverty and it is only reasonable that we should expect the messengers to live like this. However, there are also:
2) The Blessed: These are people like David, Solomon and Abraham, people specifically told by God that they were to be blessed and this of course translated to ernomous wealth.
I thought that was a pretty convincing argument though I still haven't bought into the whole idea she was promoting.
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