It read like you meant what Scripture meant, so no worries at all, especially now as you agree.
I don't know what anyone else said or says about this nor about people on welfare, etc. (if I didn't just check in fact, I wouldn't know what thread this is on!) ...
What YHWH'S WORD says is what is important, and few care to find out - it cost them too much.
For instance, a few times recently it was posted or published "whenever JESUS calls a man, it is to die" ...
This is so completely true,
and so little ever done or known or admitted, other than the more frequent parroting "die to self! die to self!..." without actually being willing to be crucified with Christ to live by faith in HIM, YHWH accomplishing this as HIS WORD SAYS CLEARLY.
Instead, as you pointed out, "g.r.e.e.d." is the root of all sin , as Y'SHUA says, and it is even what keeps most people from ever becoming born again.
They cannot live as the believers in the NEW TESTAMENT did, nor can they even see YHWH'S KINGDOM or the life of Y'SHUA or the immeasurably great blessings of YHWH poured out thru Y'SHUA to all of HIS children born from above as HIS WORD SAYS,
unless they give up their earthly , carnal, sinful life/lives and call on HIM to be healed|saved|redeemed / given the power to be becoming children of YHWH ! (1 JOHN et al).
Just being a member of a worldly club is as far as most people ever get, if that far. (i.e. like the religious ones opposed to Jesus in the NEW TESTAMENT, seeking (and getting) the approval of men instead of the approval of YHWH(GOD) ) ....
SALVATION IS STILL OFFERED FREELY, without merit, to all who are willing. (it just turns out that like Jerusalem, as Jesus lamented was not willing, so also multitudes find the wide road to destruction more to their liking, than the narrow (painful) road to life).
Check later and see if anyone found out how many times "slave" is in the NEW TESTAMENT alone.
QUOTE="2 know him, post: 70615039, member: 297920"
Thank-you for correcting my comment.
I think j....y is upset with people on welfare who can but don't work... But I think he should be more upset with those who feel justified with taking large pieces of the pie for themselves, while others have less. It is the greed of the wealthy that cause the people to steal what the wealthy take by force: laws (rules) are made and enforced by those who enslave others.QUOTE