No, Jesus did not ever charge a leper a co-pay. He demanded a vastly higher price, because He offered so much more than mere physical healing.
Price: Sin no more (John 5 and 8). Later: "If you love me, keep my commands" (John 14).
Reward: "My Father's house has many rooms.... And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14).
Jesus demanded holiness, but He offered salvation and eternal life in Heaven.
As a preacher told me once, God has no need of our money. What He requires is our faith, and our service (as we are able to provide it)...
... both of which are much harder than writing a check.
Besides which: “There is no religious left and religious right,” Barber, a pastor and political leader in North Carolina, told the Guardian. “There is only a moral center. And the scripture is very clear about where you have to be to be in the moral center – you have to be on the side of the poor, the working, the sick, the immigrant.”
I see nothing in there that says we have to be on the side of illegal and/or non-assimilating immigrants (Muslim or otherwise), who choose to be poor, who don't work, generally aren't sick, and carry themselves more as invaders and conquerors than as immigrants.
Ditto for the Hamas-backed Palestinian "protesters", who aren't trying to enter Israel for a better life, but to kill Israelis.
They are not immigrants; they are hostile invaders. There is no "moral center" that condones their actions. That this "reverend" chooses to support them against people defending their homeland, speaks volumes.
No, Jesus did not ever charge a leper a co-pay. He demanded a vastly higher price, because He offered so much more than mere physical healing.
ReplyDeletePrice: Sin no more (John 5 and 8). Later: "If you love me, keep my commands" (John 14).
Reward: "My Father's house has many rooms.... And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14).
Jesus demanded holiness, but He offered salvation and eternal life in Heaven.
As a preacher told me once, God has no need of our money. What He requires is our faith, and our service (as we are able to provide it)...
... both of which are much harder than writing a check.
Besides which:
ReplyDelete“There is no religious left and religious right,” Barber, a pastor and political leader in North Carolina, told the Guardian. “There is only a moral center. And the scripture is very clear about where you have to be to be in the moral center – you have to be on the side of the poor, the working, the sick, the immigrant.”
I see nothing in there that says we have to be on the side of illegal and/or non-assimilating immigrants (Muslim or otherwise), who choose to be poor, who don't work, generally aren't sick, and carry themselves more as invaders and conquerors than as immigrants.
Ditto for the Hamas-backed Palestinian "protesters", who aren't trying to enter Israel for a better life, but to kill Israelis.
They are not immigrants; they are hostile invaders. There is no "moral center" that condones their actions. That this "reverend" chooses to support them against people defending their homeland, speaks volumes.