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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
I sure did. I've seen it up close, and, unfortunately, I've been in the middle of it.
I spent a stupid amount of money on my wife's engagement ring. I wanted her to know that my offer was serious. I paid cash - not credit. Fast forward 6 or 7 years later. We've moved to a new town, and are attending a smallish church. In response to observing this ring, one of the ladies began trading her ring in on a slightly larger diamond each year. Another lady went nutso into debt to acquire a rock bigger than my wife's. It didn't seem right to her that a younger woman have a bigger diamond. She started to act very strangely. Her husband was the treasurer. There was a scandal regarding 'accounting irregularities' shortly after we had moved away.
If I hadn't bought that ring, if I hadn't moved to that town and that church, those people wouldn't have engaged in such wasteful and destructive activities. I suppose you could take the tack that all we did was bring a latent problem to the surface, but I don't enjoy being used in this capacity.
Alright Prax, I answered your questions. How about you answer mine from the original post?
There's a couple of other unanswered questions from earlier, too, Brother Epley and somebody else.
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So you blame the person wearing a ring for the OTHER persons spirit?!?!?! Good grief! That reminds me of third world nations where they rape a girl then blame her and kill her for dishonoring the family.
It sounds like to me that person came pre-jacked up to begin with. Blaming someone else, rather than taking responsibility for our own actions and our own fallen human nature is antithesis to what the word says. Her temptation was out of the lust of her OWN heart. Perhaps something she never settled to begin with.
Might I add that if THIS is really true, then we should all live in shacks and take the bus for fear of causing someone else to be tempted with a bad spirit and go buy a more expensive car or house...
Again, the problem is where HER eyes were to begin with...on material things and other people's business or on God.
In fact Notice what James says
as 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Jas 2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Jas 2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
Jas 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Jas 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jas 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Notice James did not once try to apply fault to the person wearing the ring or the clothes? Something is wrong, really wrong when we blame everyone else for our own stinking spirits
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