Man’S Way Or By God’S Way—Which?

[goodlife]

How foolish it would be for you to spend all your time accumulating wealth and power as the world does.

To see a lifetime spent amassing wealth is a lifetime wasted. Jesus wisely reasoned: For what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? or what will a man give in exchange for his soul -Matt. 16:26.

A wealthy King spent much of his time acquiring homes, gardens, provinces and all sorts of luxury and he concluded that : I looked at everything done on earth, and I saw that it is all a waste of time. It is like trying to catch the wind-Eccl. 1:14.

[vulcan42]

Case closed? ah, my friend you have hardly opened it.

[vulcan42]

goodlife, only criticise those who do less then you. Can JW's match this generosity? Oh,sorry you don't advertise.
olio eradication
The Foundation provides 17% (US$86 million in 2006) of the world budget for the attempted eradication of poliomyelitis (polio).[30]
The GAVI Alliance
The foundation gave the GAVI Alliance (formerly the “Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation”) a donation of US$750 million on January 25, 2005.[31][32]
Children's Vaccine Program
The Children's Vaccine Program, run by the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), received a donation of US$27 million to help vaccinate against Japanese encephalitis on December 9, 2003.[33]
University of Washington Department of Global Health
The foundation provided approximately US$30 million for the foundation of the new Department of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. The donation promoted three of the Foundation's target areas: education, Pacific Northwest and global health. The foundation also lead a study to increase access to high education globally.
HIV Research
The foundation has donated a grand total of US$287 million to various HIV/AIDS researchers. The money was split between sixteen different research teams across the world, on the condition that they share their findings with one another.[34]
Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation
The foundation gave the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation more than US$280 million to develop and license an improved vaccine against tuberculosis for use in high burden countries.[35][36]

[naomi24]

Goodlife Your cult doesn’t concern itself with this life and does nothing to alleviate the suffering in this world that it is so fond of trumpeting, so please don’t take people here for fools by implying that Jehovah’s Witnesses are charitable. They are not. Additionally, whilst I can’t speak for anyone else, I can think of nothing worse than spending eternity on a planet inhabited solely by self-obsessed Jehovah’s Witnesses. As difficult as it may be for you to understand, when my time comes, I will die – and I am content to accept that. Keep your sympathy for yourself. You need it more.

[naomi24]

//I can think of nothing worse than spending eternity on a planet inhabited solely by self-obsessed Jehovah’s Witnesses.//

Feel free to transpose ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’ with the name of any other Abrahamic-based religion that takes your fancy. They all think they’re right.

[sandyRoe]

Hope we're right, might be nearer the mark.

[naomi24]

sandy-Roe, dying is a fact of life.

[pixie373]

By definition, dying is the end.

Chambers dictionary-
die1 verb (dies, died, dying) intrans 1 to stop living; to cease to be alive. 2 to cease to exist; to come to an end or fade away. 3 said of an engine, etc: to stop working suddenly and unexpectedly. 4 (usually die of something) to suffer or be overcome by the effects of

that's it!

[flobadob]

Why has this got 46 responses, is seems a quite laborious... is it even a question?

[pixie373]

We're just chatting amongst ourselves, flob

[naomi24]

Goodlife never asks a genuine question because he thinks he already has all the answers. ;o)

[flobadob]

Ah, I see. Should we not be on chatterbank for that. Hello naomi, long time.

[naomi24]

Hi Flob. :o)

[flobadob]

OMG, I've just...... this is a dumbass thread.

[chakka35]

I was trying to work out what it must be like to be goodlife, unable to think for myself and getting all my 'truths' from an eccentric magazine and from anonymous gospel writers no-one knows anything about.

The picture became so grisly that I shuddered and had to have an early G&T.

[beso]

My wife and I have accumulated substantial though unspectacular wealth. We have a comfortable home which we continue to develop for the enjoyment of ourselves and those people we invite to share it with us.

One of our most pleasurable activities is working in the garden where we grow beautiful flowers and lovely fresh vegetables.

We recently installed a solar electrical system that generates far more power than we consume. We did it because we felt it was a positive thing to do towards improving the planet.

We find our home, gardens and power extremely spiritually rewarding and don't feel we forfeit anything, least of all our souls to have and enjoy them.

What is undoubted foolish and a waste of time is the propensity to sacrifice the pleasures in ones mortal life in pursuit of a promise of an "eternal life"for which there is not a shred of evidence.

None forfeit their souls so profoundly as those who squander the opportunity of leading a fulfilling life that is available to them right now.

[Peter Pedant]

Good life - you comment Peter Pedant //Mt 16 is clearly apocalyptic// No!

The next verse ( that wd be Mt 16 27 ) is

For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done


which isnt about flufffy bunnies Bill Gates and weath
it is about the Coming, judgement, etc

and sounz pretty apocolyptic and millenial to me - er but I was reading it in Greek.

Goodlife do me a favour - can you clearly separate the catchy quotes such as Mt 16 26 from Good Life homily ? It actually distresses me to see Goodlife context yoked with the words of God and given an NT tag.

Like .... "Jesus wisely said..". (Goodlife) I kinda thought that wasnt NT

"To see a lifetime spent amassing wealth is a lifetime wasted." ( Goodlife again, masquerading as something called pericope) . The balanced use of 'lifetime' is an Aramaism but I thought ;amass' and 'lifetime' dont occur in the NT - and they don't.

For those who read the Bible (and not Goodlife)
Mt 16 26 is closely paralleled with Mk 8 36 and Luke 9 25
and is a sign that the words were in the earliest versions