• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

    Deuteronomy 15:7 If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.

    Luke 14:13-14 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.

    Luke 12:15: Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”

    1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

    1 John 3:17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

    John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

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      Matthew 25 (separation of the sheep and the goats) is pretty much the only time Jesus straight-up threatens people with Hell, and he’s basing it on the treatment of the poor, sick, and social outcasts.

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      A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

      Imagine if they just threw away the whole fucking book before this, we would have a better world.

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        Turns out you can fit pretty much the entirety of Christian morality inside of a fortune cookie and the rest is just window dressing.