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I Spoke To a Christian

I spoke to a Christian who told me, that's not in the bible "you're going to hell" what ever happened "To judge not that you be not judged" Refusing to hear, what I had to say yet what I had to say is in the bible When Jesus was asked "is it lawful to pays taxes to Caesar or not" He said "Bring me a Denarius" he replied Who's face is on your money they replied Caesars he stated "give unto Caesar what is Caesars" "Give unto God what is Gods" Money given to the Church belongs to God The parable of the Talents tells the servants of God The disciples and the Church that they where supposed to invest it to make fives time as much The parable of the Tenants Tells the Church the Earth is Gods Vineyard he created the earth we all owe him a tithe he sent servants to collect he sent his son to collect the human race abused the servants and killed his son According to the parable of Tenants "He will come and destroy the tenants and give the Vineyard to others If the whole human race, had paid a tithe if that tithe had been invested to make five times as much Gods Church would have created company after company year after year Jobs to feed the starving If we had treated each other like brothers we would have created a world that cares about people Instead, when the Church had power they went around killing people forcing people to obey their rules the money from thousands of people donated to the Church was used by the wealthy to line their own pockets look back through history Martin Luther wrote about abuse the Orthodox Church split away from the Catholic Church because the Church created an Army What happened to "Thou Shalt not Kill" Ministers locked themselves into monasteries instead of being out in the community teaching knowledge monasteries knew about crop rotation but did not share that knowledge with farmers struggling to survive We could have used the knowledge of the bible to teach with inspiration instead of domination Stalin dominated his people killing anyone he saw as a threat domination, with the threat of murder yet all religions have done the same we should be better than that we should lead with inspiration and not domination A hundred people at ten dollars per week is a thousand dollars per week, the deposit for a house every year but but how much difference would a world religion make taking a tithe ten percent of every wage investing that tithe creating jobs to stop starvation

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Date: 5/14/2021 9:00:00 PM
Very well-written verse on a most interesting concern by many outside of the church today.
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Bernard Barclay
Date: 9/11/2022 5:04:00 AM
Thanks

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