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Another quote from the same source ... it looks relevant to your comment.
It had long been realized that the
only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege
are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called
'abolition of private property' which took...
I thank God for every affirmation of the truth present in what Alithis writes and for every mention of the truth in what you write. So you are right to affirm that I "can affirm SOME of the things Alithis has written". I can do the same thing with some of what you have written.
You say "SOME of...
Interpretations aside? Then why do you keep proffering your interpretation of "on earth" as if it were the one true meaning that can be attached to those two words?
I think nothing remotely like your claim, namely that "you think God grades on a curve - all that matters is that we be GOOD"...
Of course it was on Earth, Job was perfect and upright while still on earth. Jehovah said so. It is in holy scripture. When you quote from saint Paul (who is quoting from a psalm) that no one is righteous no not one surely that is about those on Earth yet Job is said by Jehovah to be perfect and...
Context in the wider sense is needed: And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil. (Job 1:8)
An excerpt from a book:
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age,
there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle,
and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne
countless different names, and their relative...
The passage mentions waylaying refugees when it is read in context. Naturally the quote I gave was of the two verses that struck me - I explained that in the first post. The full passages reads thus:Vision of Obadiah: about Edom. I have received a message from Jehovah, a herald has been sent...
There you go again wagging a metaphorical finger :nono:
Implying that unless one follows the perspective you've advocated one is somehow slighting God - doing something that is kind of wrong or ungrateful or less than what ought to be done.
Germany took in 1 million. Australia takes far far less. If Australia was taking a proportional number then we would have taken in 250,000 during 2015, as it is we took in around 35,582 but they were not from Syria alone.
They ought to be able to solve problems - perhaps not all but at least many - and their budget ought to be quite sufficient if only the the member nations would contribute the funds needed. To solve or try to solve the world's problems requires something that is notably absent: political will...
That being admitted it seems that all people even those that Jehovah says are perfect and upright need a saviour, Christ alone excepted. And all people are called to live a life of obedience even if they are also promised forgiveness when they repent of their sins.
Some denominations teach that one can achieve sinless-perfection at some point in one's life. They do not teach that one can be completely sinless for the whole of one's life nor, as far as I know, that one can be free of original sin and hence no liable to death.
Now that we're agreed that God said such and such about Passover in the old covenant scriptures and that in Jesus' days on Earth such and such happened on the annual Passover days and that during the last week of the Lord Jesus Christ's life the passover of that year marked the time of the...