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Originally posted by MagiK:
Not trying to offend here Yorick because I do applaude your devotion, but it does sound to me like you are setting yourself up as a judge of how people relate to God, and that is the one and only judgement we aren't supposed to make...what is in a mans heart is up to God to judge.
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How so? How am I juding another? I am not saying if anyone is or isn't a Christian stockbroker or not. I'm arguing that the definition of a Christian stockbroker, is a stockbroker that puts Christ ahead of money. This is not judgement but a statement concerning the values a christian holds.
Jesus himself said you cannot worship God and money. The two desires conflict.
Someone's 'God' is what they are placing first in their life. How am I going to know what that actually is? That's for the individual to decide. Is sport, career, a relationship, sucess, knowledge, sex, games or a divine creator first?
There are ministers of religion who's ministry itself can become their god ahead of God himself. C.S.Lewis breifly explored that concept in "The Great Divorce".
Whatever the case that's between an individual and God to work out. I would be being judgemental if I were holding a specific individual up to scrutiny and trying to proclaim what their 'god' was.