Bloomberg To Save Democrat Bacon?

[Michchamp]

Cherry-picking The Gospel--that you reject--disqualifies you to use any of it to prove a point, unless you believe every word of it.

It's an all-or-nothing kind of thing.

The "tribute to Caesar" question was meant to be a trap that Jesus circumvented by nullifying the original question: "Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?" If he answered yes, then he was rendering Himself irrelevant. It he answered no, he was treasonous.

(Matthew 22:15-22)
15 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.
16 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.
17 Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
18 But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?
19 Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.
20 And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?
21 They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.
22 And hearing this they wondered, and leaving him, went their ways.​

The context of this pathetic challenge was that Jesus was admonishing the Pharisees for rejecting Him, and they didn't much take to that.

well, you have your interpretation of the Bible, and I have mine.

 

[byco42]

well, you have your interpretation of the Bible, and I have mine.

I don't :"interpret" the Bible; I believe it. Any further research on my part is to further discover its Truth, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the Advocate and Sanctifier.

 

[Spartanmack]

I have no idea why someone would have this opinion. That's like saying that all lawyers blow. How can someone who claims to be "liberal" be so closed minded.

envy, plain and simple. And most lawyers do blow. Bill Gates has paid literally billions in taxes and is responsible for billions more by creating a company that directly employs over 140,000 people and probably multiples more indirectly. The founders of Home Depot and Lowes are credited with over half a million jobs. but it's not fair that he has more than he needs or more than the folks who sweep the floors at Microsoft - they work just as hard as him.

Of course, that's nothing like the jobs created by federal, state and local government (with your tax dollars) though - and the bonus there is thanks to pensions, we pay those people forever and they have no accountability so there's that.

 

[tomdalton22]

well, you have your interpretation of the Bible, and I have mine.

I think most reasonable people believe that the Bible is just a story book.

 

[jwlcosu]

The midget with the ginormous checkbook is officially in. Will be really interesting to see how this plays with the democrat base. Crazy bunch of leftists the base has become, that is.