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It teaches Jesus’s messages were to show that wealth needs to be redistributed to the poor & that the rich are all greedy & look for ways to oppress the poor. It can tie any verse to this, & the ones it can’t, it tosses out & doesn’t believe. It reduces Jesus to just a good moral teacher & his sacrifice is just a sacrifice to show what people should do for the materially poor. We make the new earth b/c someday the greedy will come to their sense. They are big believers in convincing you to give everything to the poor tho live luxuriously themselves. They teach the only real sin is greed
Couldn't be further from the truth.Okay, I've never heard anyone who puts any emphasis on social justice as a Christian who should be following Jesus' teachings from the gospels claim any of these things, that all rich folk are evil oppressors, hint that you must give all or even most of your money to the poor in order to be a "true Christian (tm*)", or that any form of sin or wickedness is ultimately okay as long as it isn't greed. Whoever's been saying this or teaching it to you sounds a lot like they just want to demonize social justice so that they can have an excuse as a Christian not to bother with carrying out any of the pretty plain commands from the New Testament to care for the poor and give justice to widows and the oppressed.
(And to be sure it is not misunderstood, if I speak of social justice as a good thing that had a pretty strong basis in Jesus' teachings, I do not mean that social justice which involves shouting down with a megaphone anyone who walks by just for being a straight white man with a bit of money in his wallet. Not everything has to be an extreme.)
You're right: they don't teach all rich folks are evil oppressors: they teach rich folks who agree w/ them are saved from being an oppressor.
The only sin isn't greed, it's all sins are because the rich are greedy & oppressing poor people.
It's a BIG problem.
Jesus says to care for the poor out of genuine love. Not as payback against the rich.
People think Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of homosexuality, but Ezekial points out a different picture: "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, plenty of food, and carefree ease, but she did not help the poor and needy." (Ezekiel 16:49)
My body is falling apart on me, lol; I need to make a change.
It was probably a bunch of things. Evil begets evil. So Saucy isn't wrong, but to ignore the rampant sexual sinning of the cities is wrong too.God was fed up with their sins.
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