Comments on God & Mammon: Borrower is Slave to the Lender

Atta girl. Nice article. It gave me a little mor...

2011-10-30T03:17:43.666-07:00

Atta girl. Nice article. It gave me a little more to think about. Hope your represented at the Occupy (fill in your town here)rallies.

I think what Jesus said has less to do with Money ...

2011-10-12T10:24:03.069-07:00

I think what Jesus said has less to do with Money itself. It is more about the means people employ to get rich- and then its a comment on how difficult it is to shed off or share the riches one has hoarded to retain one's essential nature- like the camel or the elephant finds itdifficult to manoeuvre its way through the gates of jerusalem. When people attain riches they are usually arrogant and their attitude resembles the tall camel or the hefty elephant amongst men. They become ungainly and portentous unlike the simple man (who has nothing much to lose)- to follow the path of enlightenment- to follow the path of the preacher.

Those are some great points...thanks for commentin...

2008-09-27T14:28:00.000-07:00

Those are some great points...thanks for commenting!

Interesting topic. Money definetly frees people u...

2008-09-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

Interesting topic. Money definetly frees people up to do the things that are stored in their hearts. Whether these things be good or bad. In Christianity having money has become like the second unpardonable sin! How do we serve the god of mammon? Are all the rich people serving mammon? And all the poor people are serving Christ because somehow their poverty makes them exempt from greed. Mammon is the god of compound interest. Depending on which side of the interest you are on is going to determine poverty or riches. Jesus said to owe no man anything but love. Serving the lender controls your life, time, money, dreams, passions and you will spend your whole life trying to get free of the slavery. How does one get this far into financial slavery? Foolish decisions, envy, greed, pride, lust, desire for more, unthankfulness, laziness, lack of patience and self control. How then can we serve Jesus with all that we have when we are exhausted each day from serving debt/ mammon?

Good point about how the camel feels! Thanks for ...

2008-01-31T10:44:00.000-08:00

Good point about how the camel feels! Thanks for your comments.

I like how C.S. Lewis put it in his poems when he ...

2008-01-30T12:21:00.000-08:00

I like how C.S. Lewis put it in his poems when he writes: "All things (e.g. a camel's journey through A needle's eye) are possible, it's true. But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out In one long bloody thread from tail to snout." May we all through "blood, sweat and tears" abandon our money along with our fears! Cleaning out the closets of my excess and repenting of the "hoarding" mentality! Thank you for your insights, A Pastor's Wife from Bothell, Washington

Yes, this is just scratching the surface of what t...

2007-12-22T15:35:00.000-08:00

Yes, this is just scratching the surface of what the Bible says about debt. Thanks for the comments. I think personal debt has become a sort of disease for many Americans...

Your words are very interesting and defintely scra...

2007-12-17T22:01:00.000-08:00

Your words are very interesting and defintely scratch he surface to something more; if you believe. Its a funny correalation that some believe, MAMMON, to be the 'anti-christ' or son of the Devil, and Guardian to the gates of Hell. Some of the Satanist church sects believe that Mammon is the "will-be-destructor" of mankind. Arguably, what debt could be looked at after it consumes you and becomes uncontrollable. Its a disease--- But Hey, its The American Way!!!

2007-12-17T21:58:00.000-08:00

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Nightline
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2007-12-07T08:54:00.000-08:00

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Nightline
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What would Jesus buy? Preacher leads anti-shopping church in war on consumerism

You have struck a cord. It is interesting to me t...

2007-12-05T10:44:00.000-08:00

You have struck a cord. It is interesting to me that Jesus (with the understanding that his parable has to do more with the spiritual) is so hard on the servant that buries his talent, taking from him what he has and giving it to the one who invested. Just taking the parable at face value, it seems to me that Jesus may consider borrowing to consume non-essential material things even worse. How we think of money is extremely important.

Nice job. This is a very thorough and articulate p...

2007-12-02T19:08:00.000-08:00

Nice job. This is a very thorough and articulate post. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! ~Jerry