That is why they selectively read from passages - both amongst themselves (ignoring the parts where they were commanded to help others) and those they had read aloud to their slaves (there is where they read all those other passages!).
Picking and choosing whatever people would like to believe - e.g. “God wants me to be RICH!” - is a very lucrative business model for pastors/priests/ministers. And quite a comfortable one for the believer too. None of those pesky “commands” like how the worker deserves his wages.
It is exactly like how on January 6 the self-styled “patriots” rose up to “defend” American democracy. Jesus / God’s message - Love One Another - is fantastic, too bad the religion part gets in the way of it.
To think of all the churchgoing slave owners with Jesus “literally” saying this.
That is why they selectively read from passages - both amongst themselves (ignoring the parts where they were commanded to help others) and those they had read aloud to their slaves (there is where they read all those other passages!).
Picking and choosing whatever people would like to believe - e.g. “God wants me to be RICH!” - is a very lucrative business model for pastors/priests/ministers. And quite a comfortable one for the believer too. None of those pesky “commands” like how the worker deserves his wages.
It is exactly like how on January 6 the self-styled “patriots” rose up to “defend” American democracy. Jesus / God’s message - Love One Another - is fantastic, too bad the religion part gets in the way of it.