Righteousness

[Haipule]

If I where going to attempt to show God's power to you (Oh, please just shoot me now!), I would show you His standard for the perfection of all things.

Things just work, or even work better, if that standard is sought. Not seeking that standard appears foolish. Simple example is how to conduct business. God's standard is: He wants a just weight; don't water it down; take good care of your slaves(employees) and pay your taxes. Seems simple but, how many do it?

Robert Burns' poem To a Mouse, 1786:
 
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone]
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry]
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promised joy.
 
(Or, for the promise of some cheese, lost his head--WHACK!)

 

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish. Psalm 1:6 NASB

 

Let’s say you’re a publicly traded foreign oil company. You negotiate with Libya for an oil contract, predicated upon your being able to negotiate the release, from prison, of a Libyan mass murdering terrorist, which you do: an act of unimaginable injustice and unrighteousness, for the sake of “shareholder value”. Then, one of your oil rigs blow-up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing several people and making a huge mess. Many people lose their jobs, and some are forced to suspend their operations because of the environmental disaster you created, which you must clean up. And everyone is boycotting your gas stations and they’re renaming your company “Bad People”. Then, Libya is plagued by civil war and the Libyan leader is killed! You know? It could happen! Now, how is your “shareholder value”? And let’s say that many retirement accounts, in that foreign country, are heavily invested in your oil company, unequally yoked together with your complete unrighteous stupidity, and God’s Smack-Daddy! You don’t want to be anywhere near a public corporation when it’s Smack-Daddy time!

[Chad32]

We probably wouldn't be having deals with other countries at all, if we went by god's standards. He was very tribalistic, and about the only interaction his people had with other countries was killing everyone except the young women, and taking their lands and possessions.

Treat your slaves good. Don't beat them so hard that they die immediately, and don't knock their teeth and eyes out.

[Haipule]

We probably wouldn't be having deals with other countries at all, if we went by god's standards. He was very tribalistic, and about the only interaction his people had with other countries was killing everyone except the young women, and taking their lands and possessions.

Treat your slaves good. Don't beat them so hard that they die immediately, and don't knock their teeth and eyes out.

That's beside the point like your ears!

[Chad32]

We probably wouldn't be having deals with other countries at all, if we went by god's standards. He was very tribalistic, and about the only interaction his people had with other countries was killing everyone except the young women, and taking their lands and possessions.

Treat your slaves good. Don't beat them so hard that they die immediately, and don't knock their teeth and eyes out.

That's beside the point like your ears!

How so? This is the problem with anyone's standard of perfection. It's up to opinion, and interpretation. There is no one individual who has all the answers.

[Haipule]

That's beside the point like your ears!

How so? This is the problem with anyone's standard of perfection. It's up to opinion, and interpretation. There is no one individual who has all the answers.

Dude! Keep it to business practices. I have a good friend who is a business major whos profession is business advisor. He travels the world helping smaller businesses become multimillion dollar businesses. His success rate is 100%. He is in high demand. He is also a pastor of a non-denominational church in Arizona. He teaches the righteousness/standard of God, as outlined in the bible, whether they care or realize it or not, as it relates to business practices.

I juxtaposed good practices with bad practices in an attempt to show the power of God as it relates to business practices.

The perfect righteousness of God hamburger is awesome and intricate and quite a pursuit. And yes, relative as far as perfection. Serve that to people without skimping on quality, or overcharging. Be generous but DO NOT undercharge--just is just. You have a potential great business. Now, just take good care of your employees and love them as if they are your own children. Build a family and not some "Who's on first" team. And please, pay your proper taxes. The more perfection you can pour into your business, the more the return as water seeks it's own level. Don't forget charity if you want even more! I want 1.5% of gross!

One more thing to remember about a business model. When a movie producer brings a script to the director, the director asks, "Do you want it Good, Fast or Cheap...pick any two?"

[Succubus]

That's beside the point like your ears!

This will end well.

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Drugs is good, M'kay.

[Haipule]

That's beside the point like your ears!

This will end well.

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Drugs is good, M'kay.

I am punk and alcohol only! Fuck hippies!

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The liver is EVIL and it must be punished!

[Banned]

Yes, if businesses implemented fair and just practices the whole country would begin to prosper again.

But if that happened, the country would have to face disaster of some kind - mainly war and industrial strife, because of Satan and his agents in the world.
This has been the approximate pattern worldwide for centuries.

The Bible describes the devil as the enemy of man, the saboter. And it gave a forecast of the plight of the world thousands of years earlier, both in direct prophetic predictions and by the examples in history.

He does it through rule, in politics and religion, beginning in families and ending in rulers. And it is done through people who have allowed themselves to be deceived and controlled by him. This starts the ball rolling with violence, deception, oppression, greed, abuse etc. 

The prophecies in the book of Daniel give a detailed picture of how the nations are deceived through idealisms and controlled to oppress. It also shows how progress was made through a succession of global attempts at establishing an empire. It's all history.

The way it will be played out in the final scenes of earth, is ultra deceptive, it has a nasty twist to it.

The world will demand what you have described - fair work and business practices. People will be tired of the lies, greed and horrendous social injustices.
Satan is behind the oppressive conditions that will spark this revolution, and his intention is that the revolution will be a 'Christian' one, a 'righteous' one.

This is odd, but certainly not unusual, because Satan has done it this way right from the rebellion in heaven, where he conned nearly half the angels into a new 'righteous' cause.

Will he succeed in conning the vast majority in the world? Yes, he has always had the majority on his side.

The final global union will begin on the issue of fair employment practices and end with religious civil laws. And here is the catch - one of the religious laws will be in violation of God's law. No economic transaction will be allowed without this observance. (Note also that the revolution will begin in the US and spread from there).

But what you have described as righteous business practices, will become law. It sounds good.
The laws of the land already prohibit underhanded business practices, but many large corporations seem to think they are above the law, especially when it comes to wiping out smaller competition. It is a network of corrupt societies which pervades the courts and government departments that allows this to go on.

A revolution against the corporations and corrupt governments, will lead to a strong socialist movement such as never witnessed before, where the people become the rule, and they will elect leaders which act "as kings." The structure of that new socialist regime is basically already operating through the new global communist order, (freedom and democracy) with the exception that the power has not been passed from the top to the people.

If you thought that the French revolution was bad...this one is indescribable. And incidentally, the Bible makes a direct link between the French revolution and the last global ideology - 'righteousness.'

[Succubus]

The final global union will begin on the issue of fair employment practices and end with religious civil laws. And here is the catch - one of the religious laws will be in violation of God's law. No economic transaction will be allowed without this observance. (Note also that the revolution will begin in the US and spread from there).

When the Jews return to Zion
And a comet rips the sky
And the Holy Roman Empire rises,
Then You and I must die.
From the eternal sea he rises,
Creating armies on either shore,
Turning man against his brother
‘Til man exists no more.

Edit: You're a loony.

[Losty]

I can’t take anyone seriously if they say “Smack-Daddy”