Being Catholic Means Taking Your Lumps

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  1. thebrucebeat

    thebrucebeat Banned

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    I work for myself.
    You have chosen where to place your treasure, and it is not in heaven, is it?
    No amount of money will make you literate or wise. You will have to work at it.
    You are choosing wealth over wisdom, and unwittingly are being used to make someone else rich while you make pennies on your scheme. You work for them, and they are laughing at your desperation. Christ is weeping about it.
    Many rich people humiliate themselves every day. It is not a panacea (look it up) for all your problems, and is irrelevant to your spiritual life.
    Good luck with your auction website. I hope it sustains you financially, as it will be a weight on your shoulders spiritually. As for any higher aspirations, you have to work hard on it, as you are starting with such an intellectual deficit, which sentences like the one I pointed out personify. You won't overcome that kind of assault on your credibility by ignoring it or deflecting to a different subject, thinking money will justify you. It won't.
    Read all about it in a perennial best seller, at your bookstore now.
     
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    BFSmith@764 Banned

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    Based on what?

    I did not say it would but I have known a few people that were uneducated but wise.

    Show me in the Bible where there is wisdom in being poor? Do you think God loves poverty......poverty is the result of a fallen world but it does not mean that God’s people must be poor. You know the Bible says that God’s people are children of Abraham. So if Abraham was well off then why should a God’s people be poor? Jesus said the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. Why did He say that? Because the people of this world know how to use the resources of this world to gain wealth.

    And some don't. There are rich people who do good everyday and you never see them in the news making a fool of themselves. Wealth can be used for either good or bad so it is not a sin to have wealth if one uses it to do good.


    Neither is being poor.

    It will free me up to do what I want to do. The fact that most Christians spend more time serving the company they work for and by the time they are done and get home they are basically useless to do God's work is sad.

    That's all depends on what you mean by work hard. God never said in the beginning that man should work hard to make a living, His told Adam to tend and keep the garden. Working hard is the result of sin. So I don't plan to work hard but I do work.
     
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    Well you certainly haven't worked hard at your language skills. At least you're consistent.
     
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    BFSmith@764 Banned

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    Back to that again. Well, if that all you'll can say then it shows that I'm on the right path.
     
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    "You'll" sure told me!
     
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    WanRen New Member Past Donor

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    Yes there is corruption within the Catholic church perpetuated by those who wanted to tear the Catholic church down those infiltrators have failed, were expose and they have all decided to create their own churches because they failed to corrupt the Catholic church. The Catholic church is against abortion is hardly = corruption.

    Too many people hide behind the false just cause to have abortion when their real intention is about killing the unborn because they want to preserve their own selfish end.

    As you said Protestant churches are starting to speak up against abortion, why, because they realized they were wrong not to support the Catholic church.
     

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