Timothy says “the love of money is the root of all evil.” Tobit is not considered apocryphal to Catholics and Orthodox. Jesus’ reference to hating one’s family is probably just a Semitic exaggeration for meaning love less.
Another thing is that Jesus and the early Christians probably thought the world was going to end soon. I wonder what fhey would have thought if they knew that the world would last 200 or much less 2000 years. I doubt Paul would have written in Romans 13 if he knew Nero was going to use Christians to light his garden parties
Thanks, MarcoAntonio. How the Timothy quotation got messed up, I don't know. I meant for the full quotation to be included and I'm sure when I first wrote it, it was included, so how it got dropped I will attribute to carelessness. At the very least, I'm moving too fast and not editing with sufficient care.
Timothy says “the love of money is the root of all evil.” Tobit is not considered apocryphal to Catholics and Orthodox. Jesus’ reference to hating one’s family is probably just a Semitic exaggeration for meaning love less.
Another thing is that Jesus and the early Christians probably thought the world was going to end soon. I wonder what fhey would have thought if they knew that the world would last 200 or much less 2000 years. I doubt Paul would have written in Romans 13 if he knew Nero was going to use Christians to light his garden parties
Thanks, MarcoAntonio. How the Timothy quotation got messed up, I don't know. I meant for the full quotation to be included and I'm sure when I first wrote it, it was included, so how it got dropped I will attribute to carelessness. At the very least, I'm moving too fast and not editing with sufficient care.