tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post7679363048727756637..comments2023-10-24T11:03:41.388-05:00Comments on ladypoverty: J.R. Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076895859826581960noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-3963017022216517442008-06-03T17:08:00.000-05:002008-06-03T17:08:00.000-05:00The Lord Jesus Christ, the personification of his ...The Lord Jesus Christ, the personification of his father tells mankind at Matthew 6:11 that there will never be an end to poverty during this system of things. ("For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.)<BR/><BR/>Despite the vast resources of mankind's many forms of government and social entities this statement shared with his disciples remains true today. There has in fact been no improvement in this human condition. These governmental and social entities have invested heroic amounts of time and staggering sums of money in pursuing behaviors that “affect others right now” and there is no doubt that the millions of people who have benefited from these acts are extremely grateful. However in the final tally the people who benefit from a warm meal and new clothes upon their back are not permanently removed from their poverty conditions. No, the conditions still remain and tomorrow’s meal or lack there of is the next day’s concern. <BR/><BR/>Your statement that “Witnesses seem centrally concerned with the role that preaching played in the life of Jesus” is right on target. It is their desire to follow the commission given to them in Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. <BR/><BR/>Jesus assigned a task that Man could successfully accomplish and that task is making disciples on earth that can look forward to the end of poverty in the restored paradise ruled by the theocratic government prayed for in the Lord’s prayer, Thy kingdom come thy will be done “on earth” as in “heaven”. It is important that you realize that getting some “real estate” in heaven is not the goal of Witnesses.<BR/><BR/>The restoration of the earth to Paradisiacal conditions and the opportunity to dwell in that earthly Paradise is their hope. Jehovah’s original plan was that man would live forever in a paradise earth, free from the poverty, sickness and death plaguing mankind. This purpose never changed otherwise it would mean that the original plan was a mistake, therefore making the creator fallible. Man cannot change things, Witnesses cannot alter the poverty that man endures but by virtue of Jesus’ commission they can and do offer hope for a better life.damselflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553663595253736395noreply@blogger.com