What did Jesus mean by this?
Pareto distribution. Inertia applies to more levels of analysis than physical movement. Things that go up tend to continue to do so, so too do things that tend to go down. The trick is to figure out small ways to go up that you can snowball into larger ups.
>>61903521Productivity is rewarded with abundance. Laziness is punished by deprivation.Since it's a parable, it's not referring to material wealth either.
>>61903521This parable is probably the one taken out of context the most in the new testament. Namely that it has anything to do with material wealth
>>61903521Classic manifestation conundrum
>>61903521If you appreciate what you have, you will be given more. If you don't appreciate what you have, it will be taken from you.
>>61903521Christ is talking spiritual things here
>>61903521he was trolling
>>61903521American Christians are all going to hell
>>6190352124 Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? 26 For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
>>61903521Faith. He was talking about faith and spreading the word
>>61903521focus on what you do have and make more, not on what you don't
>>61903521Dam jesus already knew
