Tcg wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 1:02 am
theophile wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 7:24 am
2) It's not that we shouldn't accumulate wealth or marry
because the world as we know it is going to end, but rather because these are the shifts required to
bring about the changing of the age. The new world order will come (/all things will be made new)
because we've stopped living in sin, part of which means we no longer focus on accumulating wealth (i.e., putting our trust in money, spouse, what have you, over God).
The new world order? Fascinating.
The original suggestions related to marriage and wealth mention nothing about a new world order. Nor do they mention putting trust in one's spouse or one's wealth over trusting in God. Rather, it is marriage itself and wealth itself that is considered a no-no. Of course, it isn't uncommon to see explanations added which aren't part of the actual text. If the text were consistent on its own, these additions wouldn't be needed. Alas, additions such as this are standard practice.
Tcg
On a new world order, just look at a text like Revelation. New Jerusalem descending from the heavens. God dwelling on earth... It's a new world order. The changing of an age. E.g., 21:5: "And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Also, on this being a matter of trusting God over worldly wealth, you are the one not looking at the actual text. It is all there, laid out pretty clearly. No additions. Even in the chapter cited in the OP, which conveniently left out the next verses which make my case and explain why we shouldn't accumulate wealth in the first place (spoiler alert: it has
nothing to do with the world ending):
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
As in, if we read a few verses on, "
No man can serve two masters... You cannot serve both God and money". (Which means, either we serve God and put our trust in God, or we serve the things of this world, including our marital relations, and put our trust in them to save us.)
And if we keep reading we get an even fuller explanation:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ... See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. "
Like, what more evidence do you need that this is all about trusting God to provide?
