It's something I've thought about a bit as I've made financial goals and decisions for myself. I don't think it's an oft examined part of Christianity within the LDS community. In my experience, greed is viewed as a sin, but in the discussion of wealth, the common sentiment seems to be "having wealth isn't necessarily bad, it's where your heart is."
Using scripture as a basis, it would seem that this sentiment is slightly out of touch. That is to say, the majority of scriptures seem not to qualify exceptions, but rather present the rule. If you look under the Guide to the Scriptures section for 'riches', there is hardly any good to be said about riches. The section is prefaced by the message that:
>The Lord counsels the Saints not to seek for worldly riches except to do good. The Saints must not put seeking worldly riches before seeking the kingdom of God, which holds the riches of eternity (Jacob 2:18–19).
Jesus himself is recorded as saying:
>How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God, Mark 10:23
At face value, without qualification, and taken to the extreme, this would seem to lead to a life of asceticism. I assert that examples abound of people who have taken this view with the formation and reformation of monastic orders in response to the growing wealth of the Catholic church. I wonder if, too, in the ancient world there was any influence on Christianity (or vice versa) in the tenets of cynicism which extoled asceticism.
The other end, of course, would be a rejection of this idea: hedonism, avarice, greed, mammon, however you would describe it.
Understand I write not to condemn, but to instigate discourse and increase in wisdom. We all stand as sinners before God. The latter days saints constitute a global church, and there are those who are members living in extreme poverty. As a missionary in South America, I talked with people who were quite literally dirt floor poor. On the other end, however, I see members who live in what I would consider opulence. Big houses, big toys, big vacations. My uncle is a multi-millionaire. I wonder that someone could live like that.
On a side note, I've found it a little ironic that people who have covenanted to live the law of consecration would balk at and object so vociferously to funding state sponsored
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What I know: The council declares Christ perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man. Fair enough.
Now we have Monophysites who think that Christ is purely God, they break away and I get why. Then we have Dyophysites who appear to think Christ is half and half, I see why they are pissed too.
But the Miaphysites? They believe 'Jesus's humanity and divinity were of one in superable nature'. This seems like exactly what the council of 451 had just said.
Please, if you are a historian of theology or church history or have more subtle knowledge regarding the background to this split please enlighten me; I'm sure I'm missing something. All replies appreciated.
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