The richer we are, the more we need Absolution from Catholic priests. They are the only people on earth given This Power by Jesus Christ! “Those whose sins you forgive on earth are forgiven in Heaven.” (John 20:23 connects to James 5:1-6!)
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Question 49: “Does The Book of James warn us about the dangers of being rich?”
Answer: “Yes! James, 5:1-6 lets see what many rich people are doing to their own souls! ‘Now, an answer for the rich. Start crying, weep for the miseries that are coming to you.’”
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Question 50: “What ‘miseries’ are coming to ‘the rich’?”
Answer: “The earthly ‘misery’ they face is that ‘Your wealth is all rotting, ‘your clothes are all eaten up by moths.’” Every status symbol in which they hide themselves is a target of those who want to take them. ‘All your gold and your silver are corroding away,. . .’”
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Question 51: “Do rich people suffer more ‘miseries’ at God’s Judgment?”
Answer: James 5:3 tells about the eternal punishment for illicit wealth! ‘and the same corrosion will be your own sentence, and eat into your body. It was a burning fire that you stored up as your treasure for the last days.’
Catholics know! Silver and gold ‘corrode’ very slowly!”
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Question 52: “Which rich people will suffer?”
Answer: “Those who gained wealth by hurting their neighbors! ‘Laborers mowed your fields, and you cheated them; listen to the wages that you kept back and are calling out (to God); realize that the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of The Lord of Hosts.‘
Those ‘cries’ take eternal form in hell as tormenting demons.”
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Question 53: “Does The Book of James tell us which rich people will forever suffer the agony of hell?”
Answer: “James 5:5-6 make that clear! ‘On earth you have had a life of comfort and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on eating to your heart’s content. It was you who condemned the innocent and killed them; they offered you no resistance.’”
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Question 54: “Has there ever been a greater ‘time of slaughter’ when billions of the poorest and most ‘innocent’ unborn children have been killed by those living in comparative ‘comfort’ and ‘luxury’?”
Answer: “May we all plead with God that the ‘rich’ will stop ‘condemning and killing the innocent who offered no resistance.’.”
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Question 55: “Do those Teachings in The Book of James tell us to ‘Be Catholic!’?”
Answer: “Yes. For 2,000 years The Church Spoken Into Being by Jesus Christ has honored One Catholic Teaching that most who live in ‘comfort and luxury’ despise!
‘Life must be protected from conception until natural death.’”
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