The Bible Defines A Fool
"For deficiency of the mtellect, the Bible has nothing but-pity, but for moral insincerity, ithas astern condemnation," said Rev. A. Salmond, speaking ih St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, last night. When a modern man speaks about andther as a fool he is usually implying some weakness in the mittd. wheh the Bible cails anyohe a fool the emphasis is not on intelleetuai deficiency but on moral insincerity, fiipp&flcy, and shallowness in face of life. It was the man who was blind to any moral obligation that the Bible called a foOl. It waS mordl iflSbnsibility father than intelledtual weakness that made a man a fool. In thls parabie of the Ricli Fool, JesUs pictured a rhafi Who faile.d to recognise any responsibility and who' failed to give any indication that at best he Was a stewardrof ihe- gifts of God. So preoccupied was he with hiS pOSSeSSions and his selfish use of them, that^he failed to aCkn^Wledge the elaims of God or man oh hirn ahd his, He earned the deSCriptiori of "ThOu Fool,3' from God.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1948, Page 4
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180The Bible Defines A Fool Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1948, Page 4
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