Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by causality0 on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:52PM
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A minor point, Jesus has anger issues a number of times in the Bible, not just with the moneylenders. As an example, the time he got mad at a tree for not having fruit and cursed it to never bear fruit again.
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by krapp on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:35PM
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>As an example, the time he got mad at a tree for not having fruit and cursed it to never bear fruit again.
A tree that was out of season, no less.
And this happens immediately before the verse where he chases out the moneylenders.
And on the way back, they pass the withered fig tree again and one of the disciples points it out and Jesus says "Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them,"
...which is a weird flex but OK.