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He might be still too rich
Ok i will compare billy graham
We are told all our righteousness is as filthy rags to God. We are expected to try to do the right thing, but nothing we do is worthy of salvation. It's God's grace by which we are saved.
Who are you to say? You think everyone should be rich and if not then no one should be. You envy the rich. The problem Ricky is you.
You think the middle class is poor and exploited.
tourists24
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I have given you the definition several times. You know it. You just refuse to listen because it goes against what you want to believe. You believe Hedges and Barber because they drive your political objectives and not what the bible teaches on salvation itself. There is only one way.
Capitalism isn't satanic. Those who misuse capitalism to exploit others are wrong to do so. You can be a capitalist and not be evil.
tourists24
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no you didnt ill watch these later.
billy says you have to turn away from sin right?
tourists24
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they are very short excerpts
im at hte library but i got headphones i can plug in. one second.
its definitely satanic and exploiting people is not a misuse of capitalism, it is capitalism!
exploited yes, poor no by definition
not me saying; God saying. remember its very difficult for hte rich to get ot heaven. i dont judge them, god does.
tourists24
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Which form of government or economics does not exploit it’s people? And which country does it correctly?
thanks for the videos. i think i get it. but i think his definition of sin is speaking too narrow
take for example los angeles right now. its more and more resembling hell on earth. the hell fires came by global warming, which came from our economic system and possibly war too. the waste and inefficiencies in our economy and war machine is a sin. big oil controlling the market too much is a sin. global warming which only happened because we didnt have the faith to protest and stop it is a sin.
so anyways i think earth will more and more resemble hell if we dont expand our definition of sin and minimizing sinning in the first place.
theres an economic system maybe called a partnership and its where 2 people or many people get together and equally own a business and vote how to run the business. its more popular in spain and italy. its democratic because its 1 person 1 vote. it does not concentrate power which is the opposite of democracy. some of htem are unionized too. and some of them have 3rd parties helping to make the partnership or cooperative as its called work.
a form of government would be democracy, since the power is decentralized vs a political dictatorship where one person has all the power.
power corrupts and its evil. i want something thats least evil.
tourists24
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sin is sin. period. The whole purpose was to show what salvation itself is. That is the first step of Christianity. Once you've been saved you then walk your life doing God's purpose for you life. That can come in many forms
tourists24
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and pure democracy is 50% +1. You don't think that power doesn't get abused? And if that process ends split near 50/50, you don't think the 49% are not going to fight it?
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