Once again, Thank You.

nonnie9999,

LOL!

@mary b,
Mary b,
These men are in government for the power. Of course only God can look into their souls and judge their motivation; we must judge their actions, and when they act like Joe Wilson did last night, we can see the ugliness in their hearts.

Wilson is concerned with “our” money being used to help “outsiders”— illegal immigrants. That Samaritan asshole on the side of the road? He will bleed to death in Joe Wilson’s world. Wilson claims to be Presbyterian, i.e., a Christian. Then he may be interested to know what Jesus said about people who serve the interests of money.

“I affirm that he who is faithful in little will also be faithful in much, while he who is unrighteous in little will also be unrighteous in much. If you have not shown foresight and integrity in the affairs of this world, how can you hope to be faithful and prudent when you are trusted with the stewardship of the true riches of the heavenly kingdom? If you are not good stewards and faithful bankers, if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will be foolish enough to give you great treasure in your own name?
“And again I assert that no man can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to one while he despises the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Keep reading, Mary. Be patient. A spiritual understanding of our life and times here on Urantia will eventually emerge from your study, and you will bring your own unique insight to it. There are important distinctions to be made between evil, error, sin, and iniquity, and eventually you will know how the spiritual world views these meanings. But I can tell you that some of our fellow travelers embrace these differing levels, and while we might understand their choices as cosmically suicidal, they can never be reasonable to those of us who choose the way of everlasting life and light.

@Fearguth,
Back atcha, Fearguth!

Because they are rejecting what Jesus hoped men would do, help the ‘least among us’ and to try and bring about ‘brotherhood of man,’ why are they even in government?
And back to my same rhetorical question that I can never answer for myself, how in the hell can they call themselves Christian?
I just don’t get it. I simply don’t.
I have been immersing myself in The Urantia Book for the last 4 days, starting from the beginning after flipping through certain passages since it’s arrived. Maybe I just haven’t gotten to that part yet. (I really am studying the book, as if it were a legal document. I want to get everything I can out of it)
What is the matter with these people?