tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044166228612663288.post8543418048458206533..comments2024-03-01T11:18:22.535-05:00Comments on Inside Nancy's Noodle: Free Financial Advice for the Filthy Rich (and the filthy middle-class, too)Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05894799922341495196noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044166228612663288.post-31214077236761224792013-10-03T20:04:03.689-04:002013-10-03T20:04:03.689-04:00Hi, Kaye --
I'm amazed that you read this post...Hi, Kaye --<br />I'm amazed that you read this post three times! To respond to your first point, it's a conclusion based upon both parables in Luke 16, the combined impact of them. When you look at the two of them together, that seems to be what Jesus is saying. Now, whether he meant that literally or he was just using hyperbole is the question. I would go with hyperbole. But I wouls also say that when Jesus preached about eternal life, it wasn't just about going to heaven someday when we die. It also was about the way we live our lives here on earth. In the next parable, the one about the rich man and Lazarus, the chasm was created on earth. It seems to me that the way we relate to the poor has a strong connection to the way we experience the abundant life (eternal life) Jesus wants for us, whether in this world or the next. Sometimes I think that maybe heaven is a place we all experience together, but for some of us spending eternity with those we despise would be hell. <br />-- NancyNancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05894799922341495196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044166228612663288.post-61903127629098179282013-09-23T14:34:21.895-04:002013-09-23T14:34:21.895-04:00I've read this post 3 times and I'm still ...I've read this post 3 times and I'm still trying to understand the Biblical text that says in addition to accepting the gift of the gospel Christians need a recommendation from the poor to enter Heaven. I too refuse to shop at Walmart for the same reasons. However, I'm probably shopping at stores in the same category. When I share my views about restructuring the way corporations/business pays its employees, people gasp that I am touting Socialism. I strongly believe the 400 to 1 ratio of pay between the highest paid employee and the lowest is plain wrong. What workers earn is the business world is kept private. My son who has a degree in Accounting/Finance explained to me that labor is in the expense column. The goal is to keep expenses low (apparently the management, owners and shareholders are not expenses.) If the ratio (I believe Hillary Clinton shared this ratio several years ago) were halved wouldn't we all benefit? Is is pure greed that binds our economic system? Does it not hurt to watch the poor suffer? The Christian Right says it is the fault of the poor; that their plight is due to their own lack of effort and their involvement in crime, drugs and sex. Perhaps if they were part of the economic system the poor would not have to rely on the crumbs of the rich. If Jesus does tell us in Luke 16: 1-12 that it is through the poor that we enter Heaven, then those who screaming the loudest that they are Christians have totally missed the fundamental truth that faith must bear fruit. Oh, I am forgetting that corporations are individuals. Well, that is something to be addressed first. And the cycle goes on ... the poor will always be with us.<br />Kayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16594325660370043826noreply@blogger.com