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"Al Smith" wrote in message
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>> "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the
>> world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everyting in the
>> world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the
>> boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from
>> the world." (NIV)
>>
>> I'd like some discussion around the meaning of 'world' and 'anything
>> in the world' in these verses. Does this include our families? Does
>> this include appreciation of fine music or art, or mathematics, or is
>> it simply referring to things that are more base?
>
> From my reading of the Gospels, Jesus didn't have anything
> against being happy, or enjoying himself. He had a "special"
> friend among the apostles. He let that woman wash his feet with
> costly spice and dry them with her long hair. I got the impression
> from one passage in John that he enjoyed a drink.
>
> What he seems to have been against was placing the interests of
> other men above the interests of God. Those who are concerned
> about their social status, their fashion in clothes, their macho
> image, whether they are getting enough sex (i.e., more than the
> next guy), how much money they earn, winning an argument for the
> sake of winning, taking pleasure in being able to order others
> around ... those are the ones Jesus wasn't too pleased with.
>
> His approach was to ruthlessly cut off such impulses. If someone
> hit him on the cheek, his human impulse was to strike back, but
> instead he let that person hit the other cheek. He went against
> human nature in order to awaken divine nature. But he never taught
> that we should be miserable all the time ... only that it was a
> good thing to suffer in the service of God

Well said! Jesus emphasized priorities, not that it was wrong to enjoy
life.

Peace.

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'The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth" - How?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/10/1/article_01.htm


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Bart Goddard wrote:
> You are the mouth of Satan here ....

And they'll know we are Christians by our cant, by our rant,
Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our hate.

In the old days Christians used to burn alive the priestesses of the
elder religions. Is it progress that we now flame each other with
equal delight?

- Peter

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