If I’m not mistaken, Jesus ejected the money changers from the Temple, today the money changers own the Temples. Jesus preached in the outdoors, he had no monumental buildings to reach people!! Today you’re worshiping the building not the Lord!!! Which I believe is against one of the Commandments!!!!
Panman, You’re good up until your first comma… the Temple he threw people out of was a pretty sizable building. And while he preached outdoors, He preached in the Temple frequenty. It was His Fathers house after all. Was he worshiping the Temple? Probably not. But beauty is a transendental, and therefore beautiful buildings lift ones’ mind to God. That’s why they’re there. The ‘money changers’ don’t likely own the Temples either, though they may play some part. A lot, if not most, churches not sold by ‘the Church’ were stolen by monied and or political interests for the wealth they had accumulated over the centuries, not just given by wealthy faithful, but in the pennies of the poor and peasant or guild labor. And of course those who, for whatever reason, hate the Church Christ founded.
If I’m not mistaken, Jesus ejected the money changers from the Temple, today the money changers own the Temples. Jesus preached in the outdoors, he had no monumental buildings to reach people!! Today you’re worshiping the building not the Lord!!! Which I believe is against one of the Commandments!!!!
Panman, You’re good up until your first comma… the Temple he threw people out of was a pretty sizable building. And while he preached outdoors, He preached in the Temple frequenty. It was His Fathers house after all. Was he worshiping the Temple? Probably not. But beauty is a transendental, and therefore beautiful buildings lift ones’ mind to God. That’s why they’re there. The ‘money changers’ don’t likely own the Temples either, though they may play some part. A lot, if not most, churches not sold by ‘the Church’ were stolen by monied and or political interests for the wealth they had accumulated over the centuries, not just given by wealthy faithful, but in the pennies of the poor and peasant or guild labor. And of course those who, for whatever reason, hate the Church Christ founded.