(September 2, 2013 at 7:43 pm)Consilius Wrote: 19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores." Luke 16:19-21
Jesus didn't say this was a story. And yet no one seems as eager to scream at me that it is a lie.
Is there evidence in your bible that this event did not happen and your Jesus knew it did not happen? In which case, I'll happily scream at you that it is a lie. I can only tell you about the lies I know about.
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Guess who said that.
And guess who said this:
"When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or willful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of revelry, not sexual lust, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul. Of all this the beginning and the greatest good is wisdom."
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Pretty sure it wasn't your Jesus.