Is the bible in clash with civilization?

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While Jesus may be about being nice, sharing and helping the needy, the modern world is more about grabbing and accumulating xxv wealth that sometimes are unnecessary to the greedy christian millionaires or billionaires.
Why border to be christian and at the same time remain a greedy capitalist?
Is this Christianity thing just a camouflage that most christians on our mother earth wears?
Too may people have too much to themselves and not even willing to give a little.
How can christian live a double life of grabbing with greed and being Godly?
 
All Western Civilization is based on the Laws that God gave to Moses, Jesus was a Jew & lived by those laws
 
people by their chemical makeup that always wants to please itself will no matter what the believe ,be a difficult animal to deal with
 
You are stereotyping Christians. I am not a billionaire or a millionaire. I am a school teacher and a single mother of two. I buy clothes and shoes for my students because their parents are meth/drug addicts. I give to local charities.
Quit stereotyping.
 
6. THE HUMAN PARADOX http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper111.html

Many of the temporal troubles of mortal man grow out of his twofold relation to the cosmos. Man is a part of nature--he exists in nature--and yet he is able to transcend nature. Man is finite, but he is indwelt by a spark of infinity. Such a dual situation not only provides the potential for evil but also engenders many social and moral situations fraught with much uncertainty and not a little anxiety.

The courage required to effect the conquest of nature and to transcend one's self is a courage that might succumb to the temptations of self-pride. The mortal who can transcend self might yield to the temptation to deify his own self-consciousness. The mortal dilemma consists in the double fact that man is in bondage to nature while at the same time he possesses a unique liberty--freedom of spiritual choice and action. On material levels man finds himself subservient to nature, while on spiritual levels he is triumphant over nature and over all things temporal and finite. Such a paradox is inseparable from temptation, potential evil, decisional errors, and when self becomes proud and arrogant, sin may evolve.

The problem of sin is not self-existent in the finite world. The fact of finiteness is not evil or sinful. The finite world was made by an infinite Creator--it is the handiwork of his divine Sons--and therefore it must be good. It is the misuse, distortion, and perversion of the finite that gives origin to evil and sin.

The spirit can dominate mind; so mind can control energy. But mind can control energy only through its own intelligent manipulation of the metamorphic potentials inherent in the
 
You have it backwards..Civilization clashes with the Bible. That is why the world and the people in it are in such a mess. LOOK AROUND..This is a fine example of Man ruling Man to his own ruin.
 
When it is said to them: "Make not MISCHIEF on the earth," they say: "Why, we only Want to make peace!"
( ???? ?????? , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #11)

Of a surety, they are the ones who make MISCHIEF, but they realise (it) not.
( ???? ?????? , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #12)

And there are those who bury gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah. announce unto them a most grievous penalty-
35On the Day when heat will be produced out of that (wealth) in the fire of Hell, and with it will be branded their foreheads, their flanks, and their backs, their flanks, and their backs.- "This is the (treasure) which ye buried for yourselves: taste ye, then, the (treasures) ye buried!" AT TAUBAH.. 9
 
Jesus's message was "love one another" not "be nice to one another."

Depending on your definition of "nice," the two may not always be the same thing.
 
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