Bible Discussion Thread

Hey, Anonymous Luke 6 doesn't use the phrase "poor in Spirit that's Matthew 5! it's a telling phrase tho, key to accepting Jesus's teachingPoor in Spirit: it could mean a person who has chosen to live in material poverty in obedience to the teaching of all the prophets. Most people in poverty are resentful of the state and spend their entire lives attempting to get out if it . Today the delusion that the purpose of human existence is to "increase" wealth is so widespread, it has become an obsession. Yet Jesus teaches everywhere that renunciation is the first  pretty well compulsory step to salvation. Wealth and it's pursuit are so distracting and require so much wrong action that it is almost  impossible for a rich person to achieve eternal life. Though with God even this is not impossible. The pursuit of wealth is slavery: slavery to physical desires, slavery to mental delusion, slavery to unpleasant and even painful activity, slavery to anxiety hate and envy.
Yet everyone believes the serpent when she says it's the better way,that we can't live without money THAT GOD IS LYING TO US  when telling us  right action leads to perfection under Divine Protection through the scientific design of creation.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God".