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Proverbs 12:10
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

I know someone who's dog was sick and spent $6,000 on surgery to have her treated. It may seem outrageous but when you love the living things in your life you will go to those measures for them
 
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I think it is wrong to judge how another person spends their money. You are responsible to God on how you spend your money. Is it okay to own a nice car? Or should you only drive a bare minimum junker or ride the bus and give God the extra money? Is it okay to own a cell phone, have cable service, or internet and a computer? Isn't that money that you should be giving to God? Or eating out when you could be eating beans and rice at home?

I don't have a problem with someone spending money has given them on their pet/animal. They are charged to our care. Personally, I can't and won't usually spend that kind of money. I will pay to keep a dying animal comfortable and have let my kids stay home from school and work to be with them so they didn't die alone. However, if a little old woman whose main companion is a little dog, I would never judge her for spend even her savings to keep that dog alive. I'd also consider that money given to God to care for one of His precious creations.
 
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I noticed that many Christians spend thousands on dogs and pets while contributing very little to the work of missionary and the kingdom of God.!

I see a lot of people that want to be missionaries but aren't willing to work to become missionaries. They want to depend on people to provide for them...basically begging for money to do God's work. If you are truly called by God, He will provide the means. A missionary needs to be able to be a productive member of the society that he/she wants to represent God. The apostles had skills...Paul was a tent/sailmaker and he did this to earn money to become a respect productive member of the places he was led to by God.

The mission field usually isn't too far from our front door and the mission field might be something simple as being on a cooking schedule for a family who is facing medical issues .... or visiting the house bound people in our neighborhood. We aren't called to support missionaries financially, we are called to BE missionaries and demonstrate the love of God. Judging that someone else spends money to get their pet medical care sounds like that person may not be using the TIME that God gave them wisely and for the furtherance of God's kingdom.
 
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I noticed that many Christians spend thousands on dogs and pets while contributing very little to the work of missionary and the kingdom of God.!
Really? Where? Any statistics?
 
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Proverbs 12:10
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

I know someone who's dog was sick and spent $6,000 on surgery to have her treated. It may seem outrageous but when you love the living things in your life you will go to those measures for them
Where a person's treasure is, that's where his heart is also.

God requires whole-hearted service and worship, in spirit and in truth.
 
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I think it is wrong to judge how another person spends their money.

hmmm.... read about ananias and sapphira ........ they died for keeping back some money for their own spending and claiming they didn't....
 
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hmmm.... read about ananias and sapphira ........ they died for keeping back some money for their own spending and claiming they didn't....

Was that about how they spent their money or how they tried to hide their money and then lie about it?

I don't see how that applies here.
 
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Even if they spent the money on what others might call a 'just' cause, they sinned -
they did what they did , from what is written, to "look good" to others, which is sin.

People spend their money sinfully every day in the usa. Any gambling (pull tabs, casinos, bets, etc etc etc) , anything greedy (flipping houses, stock market) , anything not of faith (not trusting God), anything unrighteous (wine, women, party spirit, bribes, abortion, drugs, medicine) ,
and withhold their money selfishly, in direct rebellion against God's Word. (when they say go and be warm, go and be fed, etc , but don't lift a finger to help anyone).

In every case, Yahuweh in the Bible says to "judge righteously" , not by what we see or hear (which is so easily not what it appears to be, even when not trying to deceive; the flesh cannot appraise anything accurately)
--- Let there be only judgment as He says, not of the flesh, nor of man.
 
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Even if they spent the money on what others might call a 'just' cause, they sinned -
they did what they did , from what is written, to "look good" to others, which is sin.

People spend their money sinfully every day in the usa. Any gambling (pull tabs, casinos, bets, etc etc etc) , anything greedy (flipping houses, stock market) , anything not of faith (not trusting God), anything unrighteous (wine, women, party spirit, bribes, abortion, drugs, medicine) ,
and withhold their money selfishly, in direct rebellion against God's Word. (when they say go and be warm, go and be fed, etc , but don't lift a finger to help anyone).

In every case, Yahuweh in the Bible says to "judge righteously" , not by what we see or hear (which is so easily not what it appears to be, even when not trying to deceive; the flesh cannot appraise anything accurately)
--- Let there be only judgment as He says, not of the flesh, nor of man.
The sin was hiding the money and lying about it. It wasn't about what they spent it on.
 
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I will push back and say that if anyone deserves judgement, it's those people who look down on others for having the compassion to save their dogs, even at a high price. Those who lack compassion deserve judgement ahead of those who have it. But they might say, "That money could have been spent to help the poor." Where in Scripture have I heard that before?
 
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I will push back and say that if anyone deserves judgement, it's those people who look down on others for having the compassion to save their dogs, even at a high price. Those who lack compassion deserve judgement ahead of those who have it. But they might say, "That money could have been spent to help the poor." Where in Scripture have I heard that before?
Prompting unrighteous judgment trying to approve of what is right does not work, does it ?

"if anyone deserves judgment" ?

The Bible says clearly everyone is born dead in trespasses and sin. Everyone is judged, according to God's Word, even for every idle word (not just the more obvious sins) they speak in their lifetime.
 
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What if God told you to spend your money on surgery for elderly woman's dog?

Did Jesus Messiah Savior King of the Jews Risen Lord and Master

teach His disciples to DO WHAT GOD SAYS, or to not do what GOD SAYS ?
 
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I noticed that many Christians spend thousands on dogs and pets while contributing very little to the work of missionary and the kingdom of God.!

I find it odd that you think putting in energy and resources into loving and caring for another living, breathing creature is somehow at odds with God's kingdom.

What, exactly, do you think the kingdom of God is?

-CryptoLutheran
 
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How do you know how much they give?

I'm going to go out on a limb that they don't, but that this is an opportunity for faux pious indignation. That we should be tithing our mint and cumin and we have all these splinters in our eyes. Or that we might have the audacity to be out gathering wheat on the Sabbath.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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The lack of response from the OP to direct questioning seems to suggest that it's nothing more than just another exercise in the bearing of false witness. The inability/unwillingness to back up one's claims is highly suspect.
 
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