Matthew 20-21

[wolfpurplemoon]

Ok, I'm all for treating people equalling and fairly, but if you worked for 12 hours and someone else worked for 1 hour you would be well within your rights to complain if they got paid the same as you for the whole day, equal in this case would be the same amount per hour worked. The unions would love Jesus.

Jesus hasn't got the power to grant shotgun rights to anyone who wants to sit next to him in heaven.

Jesus decides to make an entrance when he arrives at Jerusalem, riding on a donkey with crowds shouting his praises and scattering branches on the road. He then evicts the market set up on the steps of the temple because they are defiling his house of prayer.

Jesus gets unnecessarily annoyed with a fig tree that happened to not be bearing fruit, he curses it and it dies. If he hadn't evicted the market traders then he could've had a meal and not been so hungry that he was moody.

Jesus asks the leaders some riddles in parable form because they questioned his authority, their answers seem to condemn them. They want to arrest him but fear his groupies.

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Re: if your seriously conserding reading the bible...

[(Anonymous)]

In replyto who got me in the mess, it was me. I made the wrong decisions, the wrong choices, etc. When I prayed for God to intervene in my behalf, He did. I'll give you an example of one miracle God performed in my life. I prayed about two years after my divorce for Him to bring me a new wife to be my companion and one month later I was talking to a friend and God brought a girl's name into her mind who I met, and within one month we were married. We've been married happily for fifteen years, have two new sons and God's blessings are all around us. I am praying to God for you, that He will reveal Himself to you. I know how you can find Him. I have no doubt in my mind that He will contact you. But there are things which are in the way which are making His working with you impossible. Steve T

Re: if your seriously conserding reading the bible...

[wolfpurplemoon]

So it was your own choices that got you in to bad situations and yet there was no way you could have got out of them on your own without God? That seems to me like you are grossly underestimating your own abilities (or the kindness of those around you) and it seems like a great shame that you can't recognise that your blessings as you call them are your own achievements.

I guess that one of the things in the way of God working with me is that the existence of any God is not something I could ever believe in.