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Originally Posted by Debau
Popish jibberish!
John 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
This verse is a repudiation of the social gospel, not the "preservation"( eternal opression) of the poor. This is what Rome has confused the masses with.
This is why Rome is HAPPY with the NIV and other regurgitated renderings(wresting) of a presrved "proletariat" in Psalm 12:7. 
Matthew 5. Read that again.
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
This is a poverty of spirit, not of substance.
You need to read your KJB Bible in a similar manner to grasp these easy truths.
Isaiah 66:2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. |
I never said that Matt 5:3 was talking about all the poor literally. I mentioned it to show the value of the poor. Whether it is those poor in purse as Gill says or the poor in spirit.
I noticed you ingnored the other verses I mentioned.
What about Jesus saying.
Mar 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.