What does it profit a man if he gains his soul but loses the whole world?
Mark 8:36 is old news.
Anything that doesn’t bring wealth and power is evil and ungodly. Refusal to capitulate to the rulers of the world is moral depravity.
Then the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their greatness. “All this I will give you,” the devil said, “if you kneel down and worship me.” Then he answered, “Go away, satan!”
Then the bombs began to rain. And then the drought of sanctions followed.
Food shortages. Fuel shortages. Life shortages.
And the intellectuals intellectualised. And the young protested. And they said we have the worst leaders ever. Give us freedom they chanted. Release us into the clutches of the foreigners. We want to lose our souls, so that we may live by bread. For the pursuit of bread, and milk and honey, is the greatest moral pursuit of all time.
And so most of the people gathered. The god people. The human rights loving people. The people of the word. And they all queried. “Are you ready to watch your children starve, your parents denied medication, your family lay desolate, all because you refuse to bow to a foreign god? How immoral!”
“Killer of your own people. Purveyor of poverty. Denier of generational destinies. Heathen.” They cursed.
What does it profit a man if he gains his soul but loses the whole world?
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