(04-08-2020 11:20 AM)UofMstateU Wrote: (04-08-2020 10:36 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (04-07-2020 09:14 AM)Kaplony Wrote: (04-06-2020 09:33 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (04-06-2020 09:01 PM)Kaplony Wrote: ...neither the government nor mortgage company is going to take a Bible verse in lieu of the tax or mortgage payment when it comes due...
No, they certainly won't.
So why are you so hell bent on ensuring that there are two (or more) destitute people by insisting that landlords bear all of the burden here?
Have you no pity at all for the family to be put out? or is it only landlords who deserve our pity? I don't want ANYONE to be destitute.
Then your solution has to include everyone, and not simply the one not paying their bills.
I didn't come here to suggest a political solution, but only to express concern for poor people who are being put out on the streets
during a pandemic. However, since you demand a solution, I have one. It's not MY solution, but... how does this sound?
Isaiah 65:17,21-25 (NIV)
17 "See, I will create new heavens and a
new earth.
The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
...
21
They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22
No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.
23
They will not labor in vain,
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
they and their descendants with them.
24
Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear."
Apparently, that's the way God wanted things to be in Israel. No rental properties (they won't build for someone else to occupy). And to be clear, the Bible is NOT talking about communism, either, which attempts to enforce this behavior, but rather a world ruled by LOVE - one big, happy family. That's
what God's Son said he expects of Christians on the night before he gave his life for us (John 13:1,34-35).
Don't let the world make your love grow cold (Matt 24:12); negative news stories can do that to you if you watch too much of them. Even if you can't fix everything,
love your neighbors. Do what you reasonably can (while caring for your own family, of course).
Pray for the rest. That's all us humans can do, anyway.
