User:RobertC/Equality, desert, and the poor
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Equality
- D&C 49:20: But it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another....
- Jacob 2:13: And the hand of providence hath smiled upon you most pleasingly, that you have obtained many riches; and because some of you have obtained more abundantly than that of your brethren ye are lifted up in the pride of your hearts, and wear stiff necks and high heads because of the costliness of your apparel, and persecute your brethren because ye suppose that ye are better than they.
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Desert
- Philosophical discussion of desert.
- Alma 4:6 ...the people of the church began to wax proud, because of their exceeding riches...and all manner of precious things, which they had obtained by their industry; and in all these things were they lifted up in the pride of their eyes....
- Alma 30:17: ...every man prospered according to his genius....
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Related links
- Consecration and capitalism
- Blog threads
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- 2006 Feb 9: Is Poverty Satanic? by J. Nelson-Seawright at T&S
- Discusses the poor among the Zoramites and to what extent poverty helped prepare them to receive Alma's message
- No Poor Among Them, by Lindon J. Robison in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies Volume 14 Issue 1.
- The Culture of Poverty and Retention, a blog post by Melissa De Leon Mason at BCC.
