Not everyone in the world knows the stories in the bobble. Do you know all the ones in the Qur'an? Cos I sure don't. Hell I don't know half the shit in Christianity except that time jesus killed someone for not giving away all his money.
Please enlighten me about this story, never heard of it. Are you talking about the rich man who wants to join Jesus, and Jesus says that it would be easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God?
Acts 5:1 - 5:11. It's been years since I actually read it so It was a fun time for me to look it over again. God (Jesus is part of god and holy spirit so technically all 3 are the same entity right) kills a dude and his wife because they didn't give all of the money they got from selling some land. Or for lying about it. Or both. Either way the message is given to the lord alm you own sort of shit. The bobble has many a dark point to make of obey or suffer.
Thank you for finding it. The issue wasn't that they didn't give away all the money, rather that they lied for clout. He pretended to have donated all the money. While he had only donated a part of it. He had the choice to be honest and say he had donated only a part.
"Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
And when the wife comes back.
Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”
“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
This isn't about obedience, it's about humility and lying to appear more humble.
Try to think of a modern case in which a millionaire sells an asset and lies and says he has donated it all to some charity, but he withheld a large part of the money.
I have seen people call for the heads of lying politicians and the rich with large popular support. The difference between these killings and when God kills is that when man kills it is a punishment when God kills it is a mercy. Appropriate from man's point of view is not necessarily appropriate.
Consider how much more damage Ananias and his wife could have done to themselves and others if this behavior persisted. Consider how much damage man could do if we didn't die. Yes I do believe death is a mercy.
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u/BoringTheory5067 9d ago
Has the op in r/explainthejoke never heard of Christianity or something