California, FIX YOUR PROBLEMS NOT YOUR STRAWS!

Octavia, Jesus said in the New Testament to disregard the old laws in the Torah (the books written by Moses). Those old laws including someone to be put to death for picking up sticks on the Sabbath, making slaves of the Canaanites is O.K., and putting men who have sex with men to death. Jesus changed all of that. I simply put the Bible verse in there from the book of Leviticus to show that God despised homosexuals 3,475 years ago. God needed to enforce those laws to keep Israeli's morality in check. He needed to put in the law about homosexuals in order to stop Israel from turning into another Sodom or Gomorra. He needed to put the other law about the Sabbath to make sure that people have one day of rest, and that the working people have a chance to re - cooperate.

This is a verse from 1st Timothy 1: 9-10.We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine. So, it explicitly stated here that slave traders go against the "sound doctrine." Yes, this is technically the only verse in the Bible that goes against slavery, and there are many Bible verses saying for slaves to treate their masters with respect, and for masters to treat their slaves well. There is even a Bible verse where Paul tells some slave master to treat his slave like a brother in Christ. In the New Testament, there are versus saying for slaves to treat their masters well as to provide a good example in Christ. Slavery is also used as a metaphor throughout the New Testament as a slave in Christ. Well, I never said that God said it was o.k. to keep slaves to keep the Jewish morality in check. Here is an interesting essay for the reason why the Old Testament allowed for the owning of other people as property: https://www.compellingtruth.org/slavery-Old-Testament.html. Also, after you read some of this article, and you ask yourself, "If God exists, then why don't we live in a perfect world?" I would respond by telling you to read about the fall of man in the Old Testament. Before you ask why God allowed Adam and Eve to be tempted by the Devil, I would tell you because God created free will. WE are all free to do whatever we want, and if God had to stop everything that was wrong about man and angels, then man and angels would just be like robots, biological robots under complete and utter control. Sorry it took so long to respond, but I just didn't feel like continuing a debate yesterday and the day before yesterday, I have been debating too much on this website.

Oh and by the way, when the Jews owned slaves, they were not cruel to them (or at least the Old Testament forbid this) in any way whatsoever). In many ways, owning a slave actually could have been good for the slave back then, if the slave was incredibly poor. I mean, whats better, begging for money on the streets, or working for someone and being able to eat, drink, and live in a shelter? I would rather be a slave then live on the streets in ancient Israel if you were to ask me.

Ah, I devotee of Republican Jesus. I look forward to reading your Republican Bible someday. Here's what the regular one says that Jesus says about the poor:

Luke 14:13 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Deuteronomy 15:11 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Proverbs 19:17 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Mark 10:21 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Luke 4:18 - The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

1.) In your meme you should a picture of Christ saying "Did I f*cking stutter." Do you mean to say that Christ stuttered when he said something, or that you stuttered. I think that it is the latter. So, you say that Christ stuttered when he said something, I presume you mean about homosexuals. Because Christ is one with God I presume you mean that Christ and god have the exact same views on homosexuals, because Christ is god. 2.) I am not a devotee of "Republican Jesus." I never said that. All that I said is that the majority of Democrats do not very Christ - like. I am sure that there are ideas in the Democratic philosophy that aligns with some of christ's. But very little. Some of Christ's ideas align with the ideas of political parties in other countries. 3.) You are avoiding the topic that I stated in my previous comment. 4.) The only regular Christ is the one in the Christian New Testament. Whether you like it or not, those versus that I stated previously are in the regular christian New Testament. I used a website to find them. Here is the link: https://www.biblegateway.com. It is the New International Version. Facts don't care about your feelings, and those versus are in the regular Bible whether you like it or not. Maybe Satan is just trying to deceive you right now. 5.) All right, those 5 versus are real Bible versus, and I can't deny it. I totally agree with those versus. Giving to the poor is a great thing to do. I presume that by stating these versus you are trying to portray that Democratic Socialists are Christ like by being socialist. Well, if the majority of Socialists ARE giving there own hard earned money to the poor, they are acting Christ like. (Ironic eh, that the majority of Socialists are atheists) But, as you know as well as I, one of the ten commandments says: "You shall not steal." Socialists steal from the rich and give to the poor. No matter how noble that may be, it is still sinning, and sinning is unchristian like. So yeah, if the majority of Democrats DO give to the poor OF THEIR OWN MONEY they are following Christ while doing so. Let me guess, you are going to bring about the 2 parts in the Bible where Jesus flips over the money changers tables. When Jesus did this, he was letting all of the money flow free over the ground, and not taking the money for himself. Because Jesus was not taking any of the money himself (either to keep it out of greed or to give it to some other people) he technically didn't steal.

C;mon, read my comment, or are you just bad at reading. I could probably read that much in 40 seconds or less. It isn't that hard. I never said that I don't like taxes, and I never said that liberals are evil for using them to help the poor. Actually read what I said, or maybe you just don't wish to face the truth.

I read them and they were another example of epic “waddaboutism” so I disregarded them. We were talking about poor homeless people, which is a subject that makes religious conservatives extremely uncomfortable because Jesus was all about them and modern Christians are all too often not. I will wager that you’ve spent more time making fun of the homeless on this website than you’ve ever spent trying to help them. Maybe I’m wrong, but I doubt it.

If California has 1/4 of the nation’s homeless, where do you think Jesus would be today? Trump Tower? Or the worst neighborhood in San Francisco?

You are wrong. I have never made one meme (I might have made one a year ago and forgotten about it) making fun, and teasing, the homeless. And to answer your question, Jesus said: “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Obviously Jesus would not go among the more christian neighborhoods, but the ones riddled with gangs, druggies, alcoholics, prostitutes, and other such people. Jesus Christ would probably go to the Worst of the worst neighborhood in San Francisco, not the Trump tower. I mean, he might could go to the Trump tower if Trump needs some spiritual assistance in guiding his country, but I think not.

Your original comment denigrated California for having a high homeless population, and when I suggested that perhaps that was because they offer services to the homeless, and that is more Christ-like than many other states, you became very offended.

You have obviously never helped a homeless person in your life, and spent dozens, if not hundreds, of hours making memes.

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