Views across the Ocean: Attack on the poor: Response
Right so.... lets start at the beginning.
For us Christians it is not man (or woman) we should be listening to when it comes to the direction of our lives. It is God's will we should seek first. Therefore, what Gina Rinehart says or doesn't say is irrelevant. Read 1 Samuel 8.
Nevertheless, lets review what they say she said: "Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate worth an estimated £19 billion, has advised those jealous of the wealthy to "spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working" in order to be successful."
Well, no matter what you do you will always have work to do. Whether you are rich or poor we must all work. It is the curse placed on man from the garden. Read Genesis Chapter 3:17-19. As for drinking - Proverbs Chapter 23:21 - For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. In other words too much drinking and relaxation with bring you to poverty. Hmmmm maybe she's onto something.
Now as to whether or not she knows anything based on whether or not she is self made is again irrelevant. Nobody is self made. We are all created by God and our successes are by his grace alone not by our own strengths. If we make the wrong choices he rewards us with disciplines, if we make the right choices he rewards us with blessings. We'll talk about this later.
Without God we are all nothing. But then of course the atheist wants you to believe we are nothing as we came from nothing didn't we?
"Without God we are all nothing. But then of course the atheist wants you to believe we are nothing as we came from nothing didn't we?"
ReplyDeleteWell intresting question Sabrina, now as i understand cosmology and the origins of the universe saying that we come from nothing is a bit misleading (so if an athiest says that suggest he hasnt studied the origins) we know if it started off extremely small and the big bang caused the expansion and an imbalance between of more matter than anti matter left what we see in the night sky (and "stuff" we dont see but you take the point) we know this. What a cosmologist will tell you is that we really dont know what was there before if anything, we dont know what caused the big bang as noone has a decent theory (a theory btw is an explination with the best available evidence). It neither proves or disproves God we just do not know.