The Zealot, The Man of Lawlessness and The Lukewarm Believer

The Zealot, The Man of Lawlessness and The Lukewarm Believer

MAN-1: Africans who support Trump in any shape or form may well be the ones spoken of in the Book of Revelation:

“So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of My mouth.”— Revelation 3:16

Read it yourself.

Imagine going to eternal damnation because of your support for a man who hates you, hates democracy, and also hates God.

Seriously — let’s talk.

His eyes blazed like hot coals. I was relieved when the Molue pulled up at the next stop.
It wasn’t my stop, but I sensed a fight brewing.

(Postscript: I didn’t get down. I wanted to hear everything.)

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MAN-2: Just focus on yourself and leave Trump out of your prejudice. God does not adore lesbians and gays. Show me any scripture that encourages sexual ungodliness. Stop trying to sell sin. DEI is unnecessary. Let people be hired based on qualifications, skills, and enthusiasm — not race, gender, or university.

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MAN-1: And that — right there — is why God will spit the likes of you out of His mouth: for the dishonesty, hypocrisy, and stupidity you display.

Dishonesty

You said, “God does not adore lesbians.”

Who said He did?
Has anyone claimed that God “adores” lesbians?

Does God adore any man?
Does He adore you for condemning them?
Does He adore you simply because you are not one?
Does He adore you for your so-called moral uprightness?

See my point?

People like you are false witnesses.
You cannot be trusted because truth matters little to you — you thrive on distortion.

Dishonesty: sorted.

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Hypocrisy

Trump just appointed a man married to another man as Treasury Secretary.

I don’t need to ask what you think about that.
Your hypocrisy speaks louder than your words.

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Stupidity

You claim:
“DEI is unnecessary; people should be hired on merit.”

That is the same tired argument used by those who fear actual competition.
So they hide behind “meritocracy” while pushing the racist lie that non-white hires = incompetent hires.

If you weren’t so blind, you’d see that DEI ensures the best of the best get hired.
It disrupts the comfort of mediocrity — that’s why people like you hate it.

What’s worse?
You’ve bought into the racist notion that being “colored” means being less capable.

And yet, by all appearances, you yourself are black.

What else can I call that but stupidity?

You’ve taken refuge in the fog created by “the lawless one.”

“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.”
— 1 Corinthians 14:33

You embrace confusion because you are already perishing.
And why do people perish?
Because they refuse to believe the truth.

One such simple truth:

“A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.”
— Matthew 7:17

You deny this every time you defend evil men while claiming to serve a holy God.

You blind yourself with the false notion that you please God by denying His mercy — His Misericordiae.

But who can truly please God while denying His very nature — the God of mercy?

Especially toward those still trapped in their struggles —
waiting for true believers to minister to them rather than condemn them?

Listen carefully:
As long as a person still breathes, they still have hope of being saved by the blood of Jesus.

And many of those you label “lesbians” will be in Heaven long before thousands of deluded people like you.

Not because “God adores lesbians,” as you falsely claim.
Not because they remained what they were.
But because they overcame.
Because they fought the good fight.
Because they turned around and led others to the foot of the Cross.
Because they experienced Christ’s healing in spite of people like you —
people who work tirelessly to deny their worthiness before God.

How tragic it will be when those who boast:

“Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name,
and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?”

hear these chilling words:

“I never knew you. Depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.”
— Matthew 7:22–23

Which is exactly the same as being spat out of the mouth of God:

“So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spue thee out of My mouth.”
— Revelation 3:16

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Final Thought

John 3:16 — “For God so loved the world…”
Revelation 3:16 — “Because thou art lukewarm…”

I don’t yet fully grasp the mystery of this recurring 3:16,
but I find comfort knowing that in laying my case down,
I have also learned something new.

Stop. Clinging. To. The. Deception.
Of. The. Man. Of. HATE.
The. Man. Of. Lawlessness.

I rest my case.

— Don Kenobi
#OldManInTheMolue

Holiness by Contrast: Inverting the Scriptures to See the Truth

Inverting the Scriptures to See the Truth

In this reflection by Don Kenobi, we explore The Absurdity of the Inverted Gospel— a thought experiment that asks: What happens when holiness is turned upside down?

By examining Scripture in reverse, we uncover what I call Holiness by Contrast—a method that forces us to see the truth more clearly by imagining its counter-image.

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The Inversion That Makes the Truth Obvious

The Question

If the One who called us were profane, then surely we would be called to be profane.
So let me ask you plainly:
Are you called to holiness… or to profanity?

The Text

The Bible in 1 Peter 1:15 says:
“Just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do.”

The Contrast

A major antonym of holy is unsanctified.
And among the synonyms for unsanctified are:
Profane, Unhallowed, Secular, Unconsecrated, Cursed, Damned, Doomed.

The Inversion

Shall We Invert 1 Peter 1:15—Just to See What We Learn?

The original text reads:
“Just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do.”

Now let us invert the logic, not to teach falsehood, but to reveal truth by its opposite.

If inverted:
“Just as He who called you is profane, so be profane in all you do.”

By implication:
“Just as He who called you is unconsecrated, so be unconsecrated in all you do.”

By implication:
“Just as He who called you is cursed, damned, and doomed, so be cursed, damned, and doomed in all you do.”

The Point

You get the point, we see immediately how absurd, unthinkable, and theologically impossible this inversion becomes. And that is precisely the point:

Your life must never imply what God Himself cannot be.

Conclusion

As He who has called you is holy, blessed, and consecrated, so be ye yourselves sacred, holy, blessed, and consecrated in all that ye do.

I rest.

#dk
#OldManInTheMolue
#MyFrancisEssays

Gaza: Oppression, and the Blindness of Selective Morality

Gaza: Oppression, and the Blindness of Selective Morality

A reflective monologue exposing the roots of Gaza’s rage, questioning selective morality, and challenging Christian complicity in injustice

Eustace Shokpeka, first: it was not UNPROVOKED.

Imagine a Nazi German concentration camp that somehow continues to exist 80 years after the end of WWII. Get the picture? Now modify it with the facts.

Gaza is not quite a Nazi concentration camp, but the people are treated like scum.

Back to the Nazi concentration camps - At the end of the war, with Germany defeated, the inmates set upon the SS guards they could lay hands on and beat them to death.

It is normal to hate the one who treated you like a dog, no, far less than a dog. The one who killed your family, starved you for only one crime: Your religion.

Israel did not just “face an attack.” Decades of cruelty turned Gazans into the monsters who launched those raids on October 6/7, or whatever the exact date was.

And even saying “Israel” is not correct. Netanyahu is the architect of the continued repression of Palestinian Muslims.

Here is the part we do not like to admit: when people are denied dignity for generations, they eventually express their humanity in the ugliest possible ways. Not because they were born evil, but because oppression rots the soul. The one who wields the whip always pretends to be shocked when the whipped finally turns and bites. That is the old story of empire, from Rome to Britain to apartheid South Africa. Gaza is simply the latest chapter in a very old book.

And let us not deceive ourselves with selective morality. If your own community had been blockaded for 17 years, denied clean water, denied movement, bombed in cycles, and forced to raise children on rubble and grief, you would not be quoting scripture at me. You would be praying that your rage does not consume your last shred of sanity. We judge Palestinians from the comfort of dry homes and stable electricity. They judge life from funerals. Yet somehow we expect them to behave like saints while their oppressors behave like Pharaoh.

Hope this helps.

Don Kenobi

On Taxation: Why Tinubu’s Tax Obsession Misses the Real Path to Prosperity.

 On Taxation: Why Tinubu’s Tax Obsession Misses the Real Path to Prosperity.

24.11.2023

Listening to a certain gentleman from the tax off e on Arise TV, I jotted down my thoughts.

Since then, (November 2023), I’ve written two or three more essays on taxation for taxation’s sake. 
(Links are at the bottom).

Why do I keep writing?
Because, In the absence of real debate, all one can do is post — and hope that someone, someday, will add or detract from it in a constructive way.

Nigerians, it would seem, prefer to hold on to and nurse their grievances — even to the point of recruiting foreign powers to share in that grievance — yet do NOT a darn thing about it.

But let’s not digress.

I write also becayuse, I love tis country, and time is of the essence. Perhaps this nation has already crossed that threshold of deformity — what, in physics, is called Young’s Modulus. I've also written abut this somewhere in my blogs. Perhaps not...
And that slim chance — that faint possibility that we haven’t — is the very reason we must never give up.

The reason I put myself out here...

Personally?
I believe we have crossed that threshold — not the nation per se, but the people - For in their hearts, they have settled for less — across the board, both the well-educated and the not-so-educated alike.

Yet the hope that one day the status quo will be questioned — that is the reason all who care about this nation must keep trying. for as Nelson Mandela once said:

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made, and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”

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Eloquent Guy — But That’s the Problem!

Listening to this gentleman on Channels TV (face blurred), I jotted down my thoughts - this is what I wrote:

Eloquent guy — but that’s a huge problem here in Nigeria.

We are drowning in a sea of half-baked, half-conceived ideas — headed the wrong way but expressed with such eloquence that they sway all but the most thoughtful among us.

I call those thoughtful ones the “Champion-Noticers” — borrowing a phrase from Obama when he described one of his brilliant Supreme Court nominees.

We all should be Champion-Noticers.

The fact is, politicians exploit a basic truth: only a few people in any society think deeply about anything.

So do yourself a favor —
Wake up.
Observe.
THINK.
Wake up!

Whatever it takes, Be present!

just be present.

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Tinubu’s Problem

Tinubu has a huge problem: He simply cannot think of ways to increase government revenue without increasing the tax burden on the already overburdened.

If we are to believe the gentleman speaking on Channels TV, the government has now dreamt up ways to weaponize data from telecommunications companies in its drive for revenue.

They’ve figured out who spends ₦10,000 monthly on phone bills and who spends just ₦150. 

This is like checking the pulse of a dying man — not to give him medicine, but to measure just how much distress is needed to stifle his recovery.

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Think About This:

• Nigerians build their own roads.
• Pay for the evacuation of their own sewage.
• Generate their own electricity.
• Pay for their own armed security.

And now, they pay 300% more for petrol since he came into office in May 2023.

So I ask the Federal Government:

“What exactly do you want to tax?”

Aren’t we miserable enough?
Aren’t we already the most taxed people on earth?

Tax for what?
To pay the bizarre salaries of our legislators?
To maintain a civil service that fails the people time and again?
To fuel the President’s 200-car convoy?

Tax for what?

We cannot protect our pipelines, build or maintain our roads (have yu seen videos of the state pf nroads leading ut of the Midwest to L9koja or from the Midwest to Rivers State?)

Tax for what?
We cannot educate our children - give them the education they need to compete in tomnorrow's world!
We cannot protect our farmers — or even the genuine herdsmen — from harm.

Tax for what?
To pay the bizarre salaries of our legislators or maintain a civil service that fails the people time and again or to buy petrol for the President’s 200-car convoy?

#DeepSigh!

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The Bigger Picture

Despite the race against time, we have failed to mobilize and exploit our oil and gas resources in a way that will benefit us before their shelf life expires — before renewables devalue fossil fuels.

And yet, at every seminar or forum, we hear the same eloquent nonsense about the “need for foreign investment.”

We haven’t put up a kobo of our own to develop gas infrastructure... yet we are very coy about providing sovereign guarantees to investors and still?

Still we expect poor little ol' Smith, Davenport & Sons Ltd, London to bring their money. They should develop our resources and make us wealthy? And until they do — nothing happens - except endless seminars where we roll out how much DFID we meed to build one thing or the other...

For real. That's how it is...
So much disjointedness...

You may want to check out this post: "Electricity without Vision: The 'Funding Gap' Fallacy"

https://donkenobi.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/392/

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A Better Way

How about using our tax money to:

• Develop export capacity
• Offer sovereign guarantees
• Increase food production
• To fund human capital Development

How about setting up the biggest industrial parks known to mankind?

Example: Measure 5 km eastwards from the Seme border. Extend it up to our border with Niger Republic. Feed it with gas. Make it a Free Trade Zone - and invite the companies of the world to come stake a claim:

“Free land.
Cheap electricity.
Come build your plants, warehouses,
Data Centres
R&D centers, or farms. 
Just come.”

Caveat: Employ Nigerians.

Then pass a law stipulating that the country buys only products manufactured within these zones.

Do the same at our eastern borders. Move 5 km eastwards from Bakassi. Extend up to Chad - another Free Trade Zone.

Simple? Too simple? 
They said the same thing when we started work on the concept of Virtual Gas Pipelines.

Digression:
I still remember walking through Central Park, New York. It was in May 2010. I was discussing the concept animatedly with my old friend Peter U.

I was living in Houston at the time and had come down to renew my passport. 

I recall that President Yar’Adua had just died, and his picture hung at the Nigerian Consulate. What struck me — and still does — was the plastic wreath around his portrait. (It was most embarrassing. Truly, most embarrassing.)

Fast forward to today: 
Gas-powered electricity plants are being planned in places far from pipelines — with no second thoughts.

(Sometimes we overlook the simplest solutions precisely because they are simple.)

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Final Thought

Asiwaju Tinubu needs to rethink this philosophy of taxation for taxation’s sake.
It didn’t help Lagos — certainly not in human capital development, nor in creating sustainable businesses and services.

For example:
Lagos should have the biggest fishing company in West Africa — it does not.
It should have a long chain of beachfront five-star hotels — it does not.

Taxation for taxation’s sake only encouraged waste — grandiose projects with massive cost overruns and uncertain completion dates.I’m pressed for time, so I’ll rest it here.

Don Kenobi 

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Related Articles from My Blog:

1️⃣ A Nation Cannot Tax Itself into Prosperity — Winston Churchill (1904)
2️⃣ Ten-Point Manifesto Against Waste
3️⃣ Manifesto Against Waste

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Peter’s Love for Christ

 Peter’s Love for Christ

Timotheus rose when called. “Peter,” he said, smiling, “was impulsive, inattentive, and sometimes incompetent. The only time Scripture records he caught fish, Jesus was the one telling him where to cast his net!”

The crowd roared with laughter.

“But Peter loved Jesus,” Timotheus said, voice breaking. “A love between two men never better documented.”

He paused, struggling to speak. “The only creature that would try to walk on water to reach me—if it saw me walking—would be my dog. That was Peter: affectionate, loyal, courageous.”

He began to cry openly.

“That eagerness to please, that courage, that love—what does the Lord see when He gazes upon you?” he asked, voice trembling. “Ask yourself that question in your quietest moments.”

“Word! Word!” the crowd shouted.

Timotheus sat, weeping into his hands.

Then Ed Ricketts—our Old Professor—stood abruptly. “That’s a great question, Brother Timotheus,” he boomed. “But remember—being a sweet-smelling incense to the Lord makes you a prime target for Satan, the accuser!”

The euphoria quieted. Timotheus nodded. “God is here,” he whispered.

Ed Ricketts continued, quoting from Luke:

“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith will not fail.”

Then, louder: “After Pentecost, Peter saw himself as incense—pleasing to the Lord. He became a prisoner of Christ, spreading everywhere the fragrance of His knowledge!”

As he spoke, a strange electricity filled the air. People convulsed, cried, shouted “Jesus!” The harmattan wind picked up again. Dust shimmered in the moonlight.

Ed Ricketts concluded, voice shaking:

“Whatever the Lord sees you as, all creation will see you as that thing. Every physical law will recognize you to be what the Lord has declared!”

“Amen!”

“If God calls you a rock,” he thundered, “then unbelief in your rock-ness becomes unrighteousness! Let your faith be credited to you as righteousness. Therefore—be a rock!”

“Amen!”

“Otherwise—you oppose God!”

“Do not oppose God!”

The crowd erupted. People ran in circles, weeping, laughing, shaking.
Timotheus sat still, eyes closed, smiling peacefully.

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Faith, Sight, and the Cripple

Ed Ricketts finally sat, exhausted.
The Oldman turned to me. “Finish it up.”

I stepped forward. “When Peter said, ‘Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee…’—was that not a dare?” I asked. “How could he have known the cripple would rise and walk?”

Silence.

“When Peter lifted the man by the hand, the laws of biology had two choices: back Peter up, or put the universe in a double bind. The Bible says, ‘Immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.’”

“Amen!” Ed Ricketts shouted.

The air was thick again with prayer and tongues. The Oldman’s voice broke through the din:

“Trust God! Think about it: how could a man who failed to walk on water say to a cripple, without a shadow of doubt, ‘Rise up and walk!’? See yourself as God sees you! Trust God!”

“Amen!”

“At the moment when human history hung on Peter’s faith, he came through. God honoured him. God will come through for you when you take your eyes off your limitations and see yourself as He sees you.”

The people shouted “Amen!” again and again.

“Peter’s ‘Rise up and walk’ did not return void. Neither will yours,” the Oldman declared. “So—let’s go do our final vows! Let’s be like Peter. Let’s go change the world. Our frailties don’t matter. God will equip us.”

And as we walked toward the showers, the singing began:

You’re our tower of strength,
Our holy mountain.
In You and You alone,
We place our every hope.

I want my Jesus… I want my Jesus… I want my Jesus—and Jesus alone.

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Martin Luther's 95 THESES

THE 95 THESES

Martin Luther – 31 October 1517

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1. When Jesus said “Repent,” He meant that the whole life of a believer should be repentance.

2. This repentance is not the sacrament of penance administered by priests.

3. True inner repentance produces outward change and mortification of the flesh.

4. Repentance does not remove guilt; that belongs to God alone.

5. The Pope cannot remit guilt except by declaring what God has already forgiven.

6. The Pope can forgive penalties imposed by the Church, not sin itself.

7. God forgives guilt apart from the Pope’s authority.

8. Penances imposed by priests are not to be despised, but they are not divine law.

9. What the Pope remits are penalties he or the Church has imposed.

10. The Church’s canons apply only to the living, not the dead.

11. Canon law does not apply after death.

12. Souls released from purgatory at the Pope’s intercession were already forgiven by God.

13. A dying person is released from all Church penalties because death cancels them.

14. Imperfect fear of punishment can be a sign of true repentance.

15. Such fear is not enough in itself, but it shows genuine inner movement toward God.

16. Purgatory seems to differ from hell only in that the suffering will eventually end.

17. Souls in purgatory grow in love, not in merit.

18. Souls cannot merit salvation anywhere — not on earth, not in purgatory.

19. Indulgences cannot help the dead, since they cannot perform works.

20. The Pope does not know whether all souls desire release from purgatory.

21. The Pope’s indulgences cannot assist the dead except through human intercession.

22. We must not build doctrines on visions and dreams.

23. The Pope’s authority is the same for the dead as for the living: none beyond Scripture.

24. The Church’s treasures are not indulgences.

25. Indulgences cannot be compared to God’s grace.

26. The true treasury of the Church is the Gospel of the glory and grace of God.

27. Those who say “As soon as the coin rings, the soul springs” preach man-made doctrine.

28. It is certain that when money clinks, greed grows — but the Church gains nothing.

29. Who knows whether souls are released at the very moment money is paid?

30. No one is sure of the authenticity of his own repentance — much less an indulgence.

31. True repentance seeks punishment for sin; indulgences attempt to escape it.

32. Those who believe indulgences absolve them are damned.

33. Those who preach indulgences are enemies of the cross.

34. Indulgences should be preached with caution.

35. Christians should be taught that buying indulgences is optional, not commanded.

36. Every truly repentant Christian has complete forgiveness without indulgences.

37. A true Christian shares equally in the blessings of Christ without indulgence letters.

38. Indulgences do not share in the remission provided by Christ.

39. Indulgences are good when they cause men to look less at wealth and more at God.

40. Indulgences become evil when they encourage moral laxity.

41. Bishops must scrutinize indulgence preaching very carefully.

42. Christians should not be threatened by indulgence preachers.

43. Gifts to the poor or to one’s family are better than buying indulgences.

44. He who gives to the poor does a better deed than he who buys an indulgence.

45. He who sees a needy person and neglects him to buy indulgences earns God’s anger.

46. Christians should buy necessities before indulgences.

47. Christians should give only what is left over after caring for their own families.

48. Christians must beware of indulgence preachers who exaggerate claims.

49. The Pope needs and desires faithful Christians — not money.

50. The Pope would rather see St. Peter’s Basilica burn than be built with the skin of the poor.

51. The Pope should distribute his own money, not the poor’s, to build churches.

52. Confidence in indulgences makes true repentance harder.

53. Indulgence preaching silences the Gospel.

54. Wrong is done when the Word of God is preached less than indulgences.

55. The Pope’s intention must not be misunderstood by indulgence sellers.

56. The riches of the Church should be used for the poor, not indulgence markets.

57. Church wealth should not be spent on pomp while the poor starve.

58. Indulgence preaching is inconsistent with the Pope’s true intentions.

59. The gospel nets fish; indulgences catch wealth.

60. Church treasures are nets for collecting men, not money.

61. The Gospel brings glory; indulgences bring shame.

62. The true treasure of the Church is the holy Gospel.

63. The Gospel is despised when indulgences are exalted.

64. The Gospel’s treasures are poor in appearance but rich in grace.

65. Indulgence treasures appear rich but are poor in spiritual value.

66. The treasures of indulgences attract the rich.

67. The treasures of the Gospel attract the poor.

68. Indulgences are the last things to be used in genuine pastoral care.

69. Indulgences are harmful if they make people neglect the Gospel.

70. A papal indulgence cannot compare with God’s grace.

71. Those who speak against papal indulgences should be heard.

72. Those who speak against the Pope’s true intention are cursed.

73. The Pope’s will must be followed — but not invented for profit.

74. Christians must pray for the Pope but not trust indulgence lies.

75. The Pope’s pardons cannot remove any guilt except what he has imposed.

76. Papal pardons cannot absolve blasphemy.

77. Not even St. Peter could release guilt before God.

78. Papal pardons can only be for penalties the Church has set.

79. Those who say the cross and indulgences are equal blaspheme Christ.

80. Bishops should shut down indulgence sellers who behave outrageously.

81. The Pope should publicly expose indulgence fraud.

82. Why doesn’t the Pope empty purgatory out of love, not out of money?

83. Why does the Pope permit indulgences for empty works?

84. What good does indulgence money do if the Pope already has vast wealth?

85. Why does the Pope grant indulgences only to those who pay?

86. The Pope should build churches with his own money, not the poor’s.

87. The indulgence sellers preach human ideas, not Christ’s.

88. The Church must answer serious questions about indulgence theology.

89. The laity are growing smarter — they see through indulgence fraud.

90. When the Gospel is preached, indulgence fraud collapses.

91. True Christians follow Christ through suffering, not indulgences.

92. Those who preach indulgences oppose Christ.

93. Christians should be exhorted to imitate Christ, not to trust indulgences.

94. Christians should be taught that entering heaven through affliction is normal.

95. Let Christians place their trust in Christ, not in indulgence sellers.

https://reasonabletheology.org/95-theses/

“Woe to You Who Are Rich”: The Sermon We Treat as Just Another Opinion from Just Another Holy Man

“Woe to You Who Are Rich”: The Sermon We Treat as Just Another Opinion from Just Another Holy Man

 I was stunned by the reaction of a Catholic Reverend Father to the election of a socialist mayor by New Yorkers. It’s hard to put this into words, but here it is:

Jesus was a socialist.

The problem isn’t socialism.
The real problem is what we’ve been conditioned to believe socialism means. (Too many people have a Pavlovian reaction to the word.)

Sure the greatest socialists in history were atheists; they didn’t believe in God. Perhaps it was because the Church of their time was the biggest exploiter of human labor, or because it was in cahoots with the paramount feudal lords of the age....

Interesting....

Why is this hard to say?
Because if I have to point to a white Bentley and tell you it is a white Bentley, then I am clearly not dealing with a normal situation.

For Jesus, capitalism as practiced in many nations today would be anathema.

There is nothing inherently godly about capitalism — if anything, it tends toward evil. Nothing could be clearer than the human propensity to fall into diverse temptations when money is involved.

My TPD 501 professor — a young Ghanaian PhD, some forty-one years ago — defined capitalism simply as “the profit motivation.” Simple.

Then again, there’s nothing inherently evil about being motivated by profit; Scripture recognizes this.

But capitalism is hardly self-regulating. No one clamors for regulation of a system that keeps making them more and more money… except perhaps Warren Buffet and one or two others.

Anyway — I found this item stored in one of my manuscripts. Fortunately, I saved the link I copied it from.

Here’s some food for thought (Enjoy it)

In metaphors, parables, and direct assertions, Jesus issued denunciations of inequitable treatment and the traditions and structural barriers that stood in the way of people’s material well-being.

He said, “Woe to you who are rich. Woe to you who are full now” (Luke 6:24–25) and “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24).

He commended a rich tax collector who pledged to give half his fortune to the poor and repay fourfold anyone he had defrauded (Luke 19:1–10). There is also the poignant parable of the haughty rich man who ignored the desperation of a beggar “covered with sores” and ends up in hell (Luke 16:19–26).

And again, in the parable of the sheep and the goats, Jesus declared that people who do not respond to the hunger, thirst, and nakedness of those in need “will go away into eternal punishment” (Matthew 25:31–46).

Jesus railed against the rich without compromise or qualification. But because his social-justice pronouncements concerning poverty and wealth are so extreme, they are often ignored or dismissed as quaint and unrealistic.

Yet when understood in the context of Jesus’s historical setting, what may appear quaint or unrealistic is, in fact, valuable ethical guidance.

Source: https://www.redletterchristians.org/evangelicals-dangerous-understanding-of-jesus/

I rest my case

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