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Reply to "Not a Sermon only a Thought"

Keith posted:
skeldon_man posted:
We can’t separate our finances from our Christianity.

Is this where all your beloved Christian Ministers took their clue from? The fleecing of poor and unfortunate Christians. Be a Christian so we can keep you close to God who will tell you to give it all to the Christian church???

Look at you taking one sentence to show us how baseless your comment is. Here the paragraph in it's entirety:

God uses money for His purposes. We can’t separate our finances from our Christianity. The Lord doesn’t provide money for just our physical needs; He uses it to transform us spiritually. In times of need, He trains us to rely upon Him and proves Himself faithful by providing for us. Wealth is also a tool He uses to teach us self-discipline. Instead of indulging our desires, we must learn to seek His will and be content with what we have. In addition, God uses money to train us to be generous.

I can accept your explanation above as even the Qur'an speaks of giving except that the charity mentioned in the Qur'an does not enrich the church or its leaders but rather for the poor. The charity in the Qur'an is 2.5% of net income as opposed to 10% of gross income in Christianity. Those charities are mostly given to poor as evidence from the very basic Muslim houses of worships and leaders who mostly don't get paid for their work. Never met a wealthy Muslim religious leader. One will surely find grand mosques around the world but those are generally built by state funds as opposed to funds collected through zakaah. Then you have the passage "they asked how much they should give in charity. Tell them everything that they don't need". Muslims are expected to use their resources to take care of their needs but bot be excessive. Then they are expected to give the rest to charity. Unfortunately, many unscrupulous Christian preachers take the very little that many poor Christian church goer has so that they can enrich themselves. If wealth is also a tool that he uses to teach us self discipline, it looks like he has a different set of rules for the preachers, ala Joel Osteen (how much does he really need) as well as others, and for the poor church goer who gives away the little that they have for a pipe dream. There are stories almost every day of preachers ripping off church goers. Looks like the folks that God chooses to preach the gospels are as flawed as the gospels themselves. 

FM
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