Random Questions
- Should a Pastor drive a Mercedes? Is it right for him to fly First Class?
- How rich is too rich? At what point should someone donate their earnings in the service of a greater good?
- Is it right to have children if you can't care for them under the modern guidelines of "good parenting"--college education, lots of lessons, etc.
- Are American's gluttons--taking more than they should? Or is that just the philosophy of a scarcity mentality? Is it possible to answer yes to both?
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Huge questions! And I don't think there's an easy line; if you take the Gospels literally there is no reason for decadence when people are starving. The general view of the NT is that the physical is short-term and the spiritual is long-term.
I do not think that parents shouldn't have kids if they can't pay for college or a gazillion lessons on the side! There's more to life than that, and kids can take out student loans.
I do think we take more than we "should;" I think we feed our spiritual void with material things. I can't possibly explain how devoid many of my neighbors are even with their Mercedes and expensive houses. It's the wrong path for everyone.
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