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Author Topic:   You Will Always Have the Poor
ringo
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Message 31 of 77 (756294)
04-17-2015 1:07 PM
Reply to: Message 28 by Faith
04-17-2015 12:33 PM


Re: You Will Always Have the Poor
Faith writes:
Why are you so intent on accusing Christians of failure to help the poor when in fact they've always been known for the opposite?
The question is whether they are helping the poor enough. If you've given your last two mites, you've done all you can but if you keep one mite back for yourself....

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ringo
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Message 51 of 77 (756330)
04-18-2015 12:40 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by Jon
04-18-2015 8:35 AM


Re: You Will Always Have the Poor
Jon writes:
Why do you think Matthew removed that important phrase to write a 'twistable' story when retaining it would have left matters undebatable?
Nothing that Matthew could have anticipated would have made anything "undebatable". Nothing is undebatable.

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ringo
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Message 73 of 77 (756457)
04-20-2015 11:45 AM
Reply to: Message 52 by Jon
04-18-2015 1:41 PM


Re: You Will Always Have the Poor
Jon writes:
Why do you think Matthew removed that important phrase to write a 'twistable' story when retaining it would have left matters no more or less debatable than Mark's account?
Maybe he didn't consider the phrase important. Maybe he went for lunch and lost his place. Maybe he didn't care whether some goober two thousand years in the future would be confused.

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ringo
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Message 77 of 77 (775522)
01-02-2016 11:36 AM
Reply to: Message 75 by Hyroglyphx
01-01-2016 5:22 AM


Hyroglyphx writes:
So which is it? Is nothing impossible, like the eradication of poverty or will the poor always be with us?
Instantaneous eradication of poverty is possible but creation of poverty is an ongoing process. You might as well ask if it's possible to prevent earthquakes. Hypothetically, a world could have been created with no earthquakes and no poverty - but it wasn't.

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