Emma wrote on Jul 17
th, 2012 at 12:37am:
this is not an easy situation to solve .... in truth i believe it is UNsolvable... there is not enough compassion and care left in this whole world to succour the starving and the dispossessed.
All problems arise, and are caused, by people choosing to do what is wrong.
Most problems are solvable.
This one is too.
But we do not have the wisdom, or, the will, to solve our problems.
Quote:THIS is UNDENIABLE. We are now basically warring camps.. the HAVES and the HAVENOTS.
True this has been so for many ..in past times. NOW WE get to experience some of what much of the rest of the world has been dealing with in one way or another, for centuries.
But now the BAR has risen... we swarm on the earth... we face an ever increasing demand for resources which are jealously guarded by those more fortunate.
This world is full of,
wickedness.
HAVES and HAVENOTS ?
There are some sheep, but most are wolves.
Quote:the millions of dispossessed around the world are human, just like you and I. The fact that we have been fortunate enough to have escaped the worst of human desperation doesn't mean we own it.
For the Christians... the Lord helps those who help themselves.
No.
HE DOES NOT!
Isaiah 59:1
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Quote:Human nature demands that the most desperate circumstances demand the most desperate actions....
Thus creating the circumstances for yet more 'problems', looking for a 'solution'.
People who solve problems, solve problems, for themselves, and for others, through personal sacrifice.
Quote:and yet we sit here in our comfy rooms, and denigrate , deride and condemn these fellow humans. Fate, or circumstance, means that some are doomed to be prisoners and homeless till they die. While others gamble their lives and win. How can you condemn them, when many of you would do the exact same thing in similar straits. !!
We are all prisoners.
And we are all, strangers in a strange land.
But not all of us are, or choose to be, criminals.
Not all of us choose to commit and justify our criminal acts, by pleading our poverty.
The poor man,
can choose, not to be a criminal.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Luke 18:24
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!