So why didn't Jesus turn the other cheek in regard to the Temple incident? All along I have said the Christians are to follow Jesus' teachings. Jesus taught you to turn the other cheek.
And yet Jesus did not do so. You speak of examples. Is this not an example of when one does not turn the other cheek?
As one teacher told me, you only have two cheeks.
Jesus is also the the Chrisitans' LORD. Your Lord took care of business because he knows better than you. Your very question shows that you see yourself as you Lord's equal. Maybe you should pray about that.
Because I use the example of Jesus I am somehow now His equal? Are not Christians representatives of the Lord Jesus? Are we then to allow the desecretion of His creation whether it be the spiritual, or physical?
I have been saying that "Christians" value earthly goods above all else. I've had a couple breaking neck to do just that on this thread.
Not at all. What you have seen is one trying to explain to you that the basis for your argument is one of ignorance of the faith; and second, one which is designed to place the Christian in a state of obeisance to your standards, and understanding.
You do realize that the "owner" in the parable of the tenants is God, right? He created the vineyard, i.e. the world. He sent his servants, i.e. the prophets. He then sent his son, i.e. Jesus. Now when did the tenants get their deserved punishment? That's right, when God showed up to lay down his righteous judgment. Hmm, seems I was wrong. You don't put yourself on you "Lord's" level, you make yourself a god.
So, to you every example given by Christ is limited to one of a spiritual nature. There is no physical relevance to it?
Matthew 13:10-23 (King James Version)
10And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Which leads us to the father? What money God gives a father is "his" money? What God gives, he can not take away? I thought God was sovereign. Anyway.
True that He is, and if He wished to do so He would just as He allowed Satan to take from Job. However, if you were to read Acts 5:4 once again you would see that as long as we have control of it then it is ours to do with as we please. That is what free will is about. God may be sovereign, yet He is not a tyrant.
Your final polemic is just more boasting. You are like the Pharisee who stands with his head held high while praying. Caught up in your own self righteousness.
Spurgeon wrote about separation of the unclean, and the clean. There is a better one then this, and I will try to find it for you.
http://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0305.htm
With every word you show you allegiance to the very secularism you pretend to spit on. Attaching yourself to earthly treasures then pretending you serve God is exactly what I cannot stand about "Christians."
You have yet to show any evidence i am attached to my "treasures", or even that the likes of Beck is. All you have is a whine about how much he earns. You know nothing of what he does with it, just as you know nothing of what I do with mine.
It is your own envy, covetnous, whatever you want to call it, that you despise.