12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.
Real prophets and men of God lived meagerly. When I sold Bibles, I called those houses, "Homes you could throw a sample case through." That's the kind of home that Elisha and Eligah lived in. Jesus didn't even have a home. The wealth Gospel preached today is an antithesis of what Jesus preached.
I have an uncle who was a great preacher. He didn't believe in buying a home or even planning for retirement. He truly believed that God would take care of him, and so far, his theory was correct. The very Bible that these right-wingers use to attack a liberal, can be used to point out their misinterpretations. No humbleness, they think, when they have The Bible on their side. And our million babies? The Old Testament God wiped out Soddom and Gomorrha and ordered AI and Jericho to be slaughtered. All cities have babies.
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