Seems pretty clear to me that a big part of being like Jesus, the entire point of Christianity, means to not be wealthy. There is literally no scriptural basis in the NT for any other interpretation. WWJD? He tells you directly. Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor and follow him.
Excuse me, no where did I claim to be better than anyone. I'm merely attempting to hold people accountable for their professed beliefs and hold to a standard that I feel we as a country have severely failed to live up to.
Calling Trump a pathological liar is the most easily provable claim I have made so far and the fact that you would even deny this tells me you have a severe psychological attachment to the man to the point of being brainwashed. Trump is the Antichrist. There is not ONE SINGLE characteristic of Christ that Trump embodies. NOT A SINGLE ONE. I can find DOZENS of scriptures that point to him being the Antichrist as well as to warning about men like him in general. It's very telling that you couldn't answer my question about Trump's fruits and had to resort to ignoring the point of that passage. You think "By their fruits you will know them" only applies to prophets? Trumps fruits are rotten to the core and anyone who would defend them are trading light for dark, good for evil. I've done all I can here. Trump supporters have been sent the strong delusion because they do not love the truth but delight in wickedness.
2 Thessalonians 2
9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
The meme didn't refute anything. It actually helps my point. Jesus hung out with lowly common people who were sinners. Not sinners who had positions of great power and wealth. In fact, he absolutely admonished them as hypocrites ever chance he had. Especially the religious leaders of the time. And do you think the ones of our time are any better? The very ones who champion and support Trump? It's funny, Jesus was hated by the religious people and leaders of his time but loved by the sinners. Trump is loved by the religious people and leaders of our time but hated by the sinners.Jesus speaks of loving your enemy and turning the other cheek. Trump speaks of getting revenge and an eye for an eye. Jesus says to get rid of all your things and give the money to the poor and not to build up wealth on earth or love money. Trump, by his own admission, has lead a life of accumulation, loving money and being greedy. Jesus is referred to as "the truth" and Trump is a pathological liar to a degree we've never seen before in a president. Jesus also called Satan the Father of Lies It's almost as if Trump is the complete opposite of Jesus, what you might call an Antichrist if you will.
I don't care about Trump's past sins or his sins in general as far as how they affect him and his life. Thats between him and God. What I do care about is how his immoral and unethical behavior is tearing apart my country, weakening us as a nation and causing unnecessary division like we've never seen before.
Here's some scripture for you.
Matthew 7
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
What are Trump's fruits from a Christian perspective? Meaning Jesus never preached about how great a person was because they created jobs or boosted the economy. What are Trump's fruits in regards to adhering to the very passage you just accused me of not adhering to? Where is Trump's love and grace in action as president? It's absolutely nowhere to be found because he has absolutely zero capacity for either.
3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
1 Corinthians 5
9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister c but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
12What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
Donald J Trump
"The point is that you can't be too greedy."
“And then people say oh, is he a smart person? I’m smarter than all of them put together, but they can’t admit it.”
“I feel like a supermodel except, like, times 10, OK? It’s true. I’m a supermodel.”
"The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.”
"When people wrong you, go after those people, because it is a good feeling and because other people will see you doing it," he writes. "I always get even."
