Wealth Must Be Created Before We Can Give It To the Poor

[buffalo_girl]

So I met your challenge, now give us your snarky response!

Regards,

George Clay

Who's snarky?!

I want to continue being a sharecropper for the LORD, hopefully one He decides to keep.

[marc]

Marc,

I think SS means Sunday School, but I don't know what SMA is

SMA means Standard Mormon Answer - the answers that are given regularly to common questions in Church.

But in the parable, they were indeed made equal. And that was the point. But what if He took all the gold in the universe and divided it equally among them because He is God and He decides what is good and just and fair? Now each of them were equally wealthy a thousand lifetimes over. Would that make any kind of difference?

I could see this mis interpretation coming a thousand miles away. That was why I found it silly for you to post it as if you were laying a trap. You God Socialists continue to confuse that being made equal with being given equal stuff. Now if you pursue the SMA, further, you will find that the reward being symbolized here is being able to be Saved or get into the Celestial Kingdom. For that particular reward, it doesn't matter if you repent and accept Christ at the beginning of your life, or if you repent and accept him at the end. In fact, just as in the parable, those who do so last receive their reward first and those who do so first are given it last.

This again ties into the thread I started

Choices, Compound interest, and why there is no equal Glory in the Celestial Kingdom

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=46589#p809341

There are 2 eternal concepts here. Where you are and which way you are going. The most important choice we make in this 2nd estate is to choose which way were are going. This is what is addressed in your parable. However, in order to understand that equality, means equal treatment, and doesn't mean equal knowledge, glory, possessions or stuff, one has to understand the eternal concept of how one gets to where your are.

The only way to insure that everyone gets an equal result means that all must be unequally treated. This was Satan's plan, not Christ's

Regards,

George Clay

Laying a trap? Either I am that crooked or you are that cynical.

[buffalo_girl]

Seems like Elder Cook's talk was quite plain on the topic of Equality.

[buffalo_girl]

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/ ... y?lang=eng

Elder Quentin L. Cook - "The Eternal Everyday"