@garfishbama@ShaneClaiborne @NicJam25 not sure it was ever practised. People who have acquired land tend to want to hold onto it and have the political and economic clout to do so. The bible is full of complaints that judges aren't defending the poor especially during the divided monarchy.
@garfishbama@ShaneClaiborne @NicJam25 I was taught that as well. It does have spiritual implications too, but has Jesus abandoned the practical aspects of the Jubilee of justice for the poor, oppressed and prisoners? It doesn't sound like Jesus or what he preached.
@garfishbama@ShaneClaiborne @NicJam25 First century Jews would have understood Jesus reading from Isaiah "proclaim good news to the poor... liberty to the captives... proclaim the year of the Lord's favour..."and "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." Was Jesus inaugurating the Jubilee.
@universitytimes They thought Ulcerative Colitis was 'psychosomatic' too, and they treated it it with lobotomies. I can understand how psychologists can speculate that a disease is psychosomatic if they can't find medical evidence, But we've had evidence of pathology for ME/CFS for 20 years.
Watch: Whitaker gets a fiery rebuke from Rep. Pramila Jayapal after admitting DOJ didn't track children separated from parents: "Do you understand the magnitude of that?"
@TheRaDR Yet even the Sabbath goes from because God consecrated the seventh day Ex 20:11 human to God, to interpersonal, because of God's heart for the most vulnerable and exploited labourers Ex 23:12 & Deut 5:14, the worlds 1st (as far as I know) labour law.
@theKevinGarcia_@BrandanJR The writer of Hebrews certainly agreed with you:
Hebrews 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son...
Share of Americans who say:
▪️ "If America is too open to people from around the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation" 𝟐𝟔%
▪️ "America's openness to people from all over the world is essential to who we are as a nation" 𝟔𝟖%
https://t.co/2iBbQXC16L
@MEActNetUK I don't know if it is relevant but I edited the pic in MSPaint, not to make myself prettier, but to make the sign more readable, putting a paragraph space between the message and the debate hashtag.
With 250,000 people in the UK suffering from ME/CFS, why is it so poorly funded?
There has been a flood of research worldwide showing #MECFS is a severe debilitating medical illness. We need funding for proper medical research to find a treatment that works #MEdebate
@MEActNetUK Oh dear... I look terrible in the pic, but that's probably the point.
I'd be hypocritical saying I'd march for ME/CFS but not be willing for my pic to be seen online... So... ok.
@RedLetterXians If God's greatest command is to love our neighbour as ourselves, then sin, falling short of that, isn't about a list of rules, but any time we use, abuse, hurt others and treat them as less than we are. God is offended because he loves them as much as he loves us.