My Journal

I recently stumbled upon lots of cashgifting advertisements on Youtube. 

It is remarkable that these scam artists are so convinced of their "integrity" in what they do as if you cannot find the word "scam" in their dictionary.

But I supposed, as there are other sins made legit out there, such as pornography, marriages other than between a man and a woman, cults, racism, etc...there's no surprise why those involved in such things as cash gifting aren't feeling guilty at all. The crafty term "gift/gifting" is used to avoid legal issues, unethically.

When we listen to promises, we must listen carefully. We must consider all odds if trust is required, because when we trust a promise, we are also accepting the possibility of the worst case scenario, despite how beautifully they try to manipulate the definition of "promise" with technical terms, emotions, numbers, intentions, etc. These people do love to prey on those who are truly in need. These are not thieves and robbers, no, they are worst than thieves and robbers.

As a rule of thumb:

1. Any ads that appear to describe how their systems work, yet when with close examination, they never really explain how the money flow works, these are scams or some of which are what many call "pyramid scam: the first one with the idea usually scammed the most money". True, there are people making money, those who are advertising. If they really want to call this legal, then I would call it Unethical. I already know their responses to this: "do some research before you...invest...", "it's your choice", "it works for some", "you lose sometimes", "success comes to those who take risks", no response-they have disappeared, etc.

2. If an ad shows all kinds of numbers, simple math additions and multiplications of what you "MAY" receive, earn, be awarded, it actually means to tell you that you are too dumb to calculate yourself and it is counting on your dumbness to fall into the scam.

3. Any such programs that don't tell you there's a fee/investment/membership cost/pay first and trust me/registration fee/deposit/etc., before they TRY to make it sound how wonderful their programs are, are scams. It is very much like some stores that don't display the prices and when you ask them the costs of their pricetag-less products, they try to look annoyed (especially when you decided not to buy) and make it seems that they are doing you a favor by telling you the prices.

4. When the founders obviously have nothing but pennies to lose, but something to gain. Using others' money to make bigger ads, etc.

5. If they INSIST on telling you testimonies than telling you why you should trust them, they are scammers.

I think these are all examples of those Christians who treat the Gospel as sales. Personally I believe the non-biblical American Evangelists are the ones responsible to start all these mayhem.

Running an honest business is not easy, a lot of wisdom is required, and the willingness to suffer losses, even due to honesty, and the diligence of disciplined principle learning, analyzing losses, studying and researching, the will power to strive with ethical integrity and not unethical justification.

Practical issues treated as impractical;

Impractical issues treated as practical. 

I remember teaching the Sunday School one time on Celibacy when we were studying the epistle to the Corinthians, a pastor immediately interrupted, saying that everyone should get married, implying that celibacy is negatively abnormal.

True, yielding to a life of celibacy is special, because it is as Jesus said, for the kingdom of heaven's sake (Matthew 19:12). So it is a giving up. And such person needs to understanding what sort of calling this is. If a person indulges in the life of celibacy because a married priest is sinful, as the papists put it, or simply because he finds marriages useless or lowly or meaningless, then he has greatly sinned against God, who created man and woman and made the union between a man and a woman to be a sacred relationship.

So not everyone should get married, not everyone should be celibate. One must know what calling God has for oneself.

I am intrigued, that this pastor's own sunken marriage has been public knowledge for a while now, and he wanted to call celibacy abnormal. I wonder who is truly abnormal here. 

True, according to the Bible, there is only to be one wife.

However, I have seen many American preachers laughed at Muslims' notion of four wives.

It is remarkable, how Jimmy Swaggart dared to point this out as a mocking statement before one of Muslim's great debaters, Ahmed Deedat, during an important meeting, and later committed adultery.

I supposed a preacher from a pornographic culture should be careful when he speaks of the holy matrimony of one husband and one wife.

But I supposed with its divorce rate, it's hard for these to be mindful of such things. 唉呀！美国的基督徒是最喜欢离婚的啦。有些为了在社会里留面子，不得不保持婚姻，做做样子。Not good? Bye bye, dump it, I want divorce!

I don't know where they got the guts to laugh at those who have 4 wives. I recently discovered a site: http://www.reformation.com/ warning Christians not to be hypocrites.

When the Bible speaks of 1 husband, 1 wife, 1 family, it is because this is a sacred relationship before God. Although wives are to submit to their husbands, both men and women are created equal before God. The husband gets the whole of his wife, and the wife gets the whole of her husband. There is no third person or forth person with equal level involved in this matrimony. 

It must not be a doubt, that the services of the Church, must be performed by Christians.

I recall recent discussion with a pastor regarding this issue. She suggested that because non-christians could have a chance of converting during such servitude, it must not be restricted from them.

If that is the case, why then the principle of marriages among christians only? Is that not hypocrisy? or perhaps family matter is more important more serious?  

If we despise Judas, we must know that we were once like him. If we do not acknowledge this, the more we despise Judas, the more we become like him.