Comments by "AWResistance" (@AlanWattResistance) on "Elderly Pastor Arrested For Feeding Homeless" video.
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xiadevinna That's true, however there's historical context that needs to be factored in. This quote by Augustine sums it up better than i possibly could:
“The people of whom i am speaking have the same sort of grievance when they hear that things which good men could do without sin in days gone by are not permitted in ours, and that God gave them one commandment and has given us another. He has done this because the times have demanded it, although men where subject to the same justice in those days as we are in these. Yet those who complain about this understand that when we are dealing with single men, a single day, or a single house, each part of the whole has a differen’t function suited to it. What may be done at one time of day is not allowed at the next, and what may be done, or must be done, in one room is forbidden or punished in another. This does not mean that justice is erratic or variable, but that the times over which is presides are not always the same, for it is the nature of time to change. Man’s life on earth is short and he cannot, by his own perception, see the connection between conditions of earlier times and of other nations, which he has not experienced himself, and those of his own times, which are familiar to him. But when only one individual, one day, or one household is concerned, he can easily see what is suitable for each part of the whole and for each member of the household, and what must be done at which times and places. These things he accepts: but with the habits of other ages he find faults.” Confessions, Saint Augustine [pg 63-64]
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