pray tell what is the meaning of this scripture??

Question

weep and wail,because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth is rotted,etc etc (more of same)will testify against you and eat your fleshlike fire. you have hoarded wealth IN THE LAST DAYS look the wages you failed to pay----are crying out against you the cries have reached the ears of the almighty, you lived in luxury and self-indulgence(lots more of the same) the rich will be condemned. might this affect how one votes James , 5 :1-5

Answer 1

This is the prettle of an ignoramusWho is insulting God unwittingly. He seems to think that God is a magistrate fuctioning under him to conduct an enquiry into whatever a person did that was a sin acording to the whims and fancies of the ignoramusSuch tactics were used by somecrooks in the past proclaimig themselves the sole agent of god on earth to threaten innocent people of harsh punishments in the aftr-life which no one can ever dream of having have.The fact is that even when a man is alive , the pain is felt by the tissues of the flesh and teh brain idetifies the spot of the damage .This sensation won't be there in spirit even assuming that the spirit really exists and is capable of independent existence. Another important facr , scientific fact is that nothing really ever dies.For proof , take a small bit of any part of the so-called dead body and scrutinize it under an electron microscope . you would see teh electron in evry atom of the various elements of which the tiisues of th body are made of spinning around teh proton with hte same speed with which they are running in the atom of any or the same element in the body of a so-called living being or any inanimate object..no matter ever dies in thie world .cience has also has already testified to this fact and proved that matter never dies,This is what the hindu upanishads and Bahavad Gita also tells .matter is indestructible and and any bieng never dies . They change form one to another. nature recycles as we recycle the tins . plastics and paper. none of these recycled stuff return as what they were before recycling , but return as other stuff of the same kind .We go no wher and before no God for judgement .God is not a loafer with out any wasting his time doing the job of a magistrate to please the imagination of some ignoramuses.If at all he had done any such job , it should have been to judge the ignoraus to punish him by consigning him to hell for telling lies to thereaten innocent people to exercise authority over them by a false self-procalamation as his sole agent. for tunately for those people also , God could not hae have done that , for god has better things to do.. nothing could ever follow any man to hell or heaven.neither his good nor his bad follows him anywher after his death , for he he goes no where . nothing fromn theis earth is capapble of escaping the gravity and atmospher of this earht,Even the gods would not escape the earth's garavity. All that a man hoards here ,will be here only as no man can take anything with him when he dies.A man has to forget even his name and address and everything he learned here , befeore he is fit to go. no man dies if there is evn a trace of consciousness . only after the brain dies that a man is declard dead . So evey man reaches at the time of death ,the same stage at which he was while he was born. a blank slate . a blank hard disc in his mind . That means tha no man really takes anythign for himself and he leaves everything behind when he goes , Where is the question of his being punished for taking everything for himself ? If really people who preach such things to the innocen tpoeple beliegved in such things , there could have been no instnces of the preiests commiting sexual offenses in the premises of the churches and temples and ptople killing innocent humans in the name of religon. it is all humbug and falsehood . If yu want to see if really anything lives even after what we call death, just do this and see for yur self . just burn some piece of paper to ashes . Now you have burned an apparently a piece of papaer you call that is life less and inanimate . Further you have burnt it to ashes . so absolutely thwre is no possibility of its having any life in it . Now if you see the shes under an electron microscope to look at the atom of the burned piece of paper the carbon element of the burned portionof the papaer . Try to get it by some labopratiory and see if it is dead. you e=will see the carbon atome very much alive . Water can not wet it and fiore can not burn it . it is itself water and it is itself is fire. it is undying and unceasing in its action. If it cease s to work , the whole unierse would cease to exist . Matter is never dead . Nothing made of matter is efer dead . Man also never dies . he only changes from one to another . We cahnge roles . That is the order of the universe.. We brought notheing , and so we take away nothing .The learned - very highly learned and the unletttered , the saint and teh sinner were all the same when they came and again they are all thesame when they go. it is only here that they are spoken of differently. but no wher elese.hell and jeaen are here only . And we who create it them and mange them. God does not demean himself to do such jobs for the ingnoramuses.So forget the prattle . Try to be happy . the only way to e happy is to keep evry body around you happy. you will feel a good scent and aroma in a gardenof lowers evenif you have some stink on you . But if you sit in th emidst of stinking filth , even if you have sprauyed yourself with the best perfume , you will only smell filth . so it is necessary to make people around happyif you want to be happy. simple but great philosophy.that never involves any fear of hell or heaven.

Answer 2

I don't know what translation of the Bible you are using, but check out this New Living Translation:


This passage is titled "Warning to the Rich" so you know that in context, the message is meant for wealthy people and it is a warning about the future as well as a commentary on the wealth they have accumulated....

Here's the passage - James 5:1-5

1Look here, you rich people, weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you. 2Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags. 3Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell.[a] This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment. 4For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

5You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every whim. Now your hearts are nice and fat, ready for the slaughter. 6You have condemned and killed good people who had no power to defend themselves against you.


So when it comes down to it, if you cheated others to get it, or treated others badly to make your buck; if you've lived a luxurious life -- what good is it really? How important is that really? What really counts in the end is your relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

this is what James 5:1-5 means 1I, James, am a slave of God and the Master Jesus, writing to the twelve tribes scattered to Kingdom Come: Hello! Faith Under Pressure
2-4Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colours. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

5-8If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believing, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.

Answer 4

In this chapter the apostle denounces the judgments of God upon those rich men who oppress the poor, showing them how great their sin and folly are in the sight of God, and how grievous the punishments would be which should fall upon themselves, ver. 1-6. Hereupon, all the faithful are exhorted to patience under their trials and sufferings, ver. 7-11. The sin of swearing is cautioned against, ver. 12. We are directed how to act, both under affliction and in prosperity, ver. 13. Prayer for the sick, and anointing with oil, are prescribed, ver. 14, 15. Christians are directed to acknowledge their faults one to another, and to pray one for another, and the efficacy of prayer is proved, ver. 16-18. And, lastly, it is recommended to us to do what we can for bringing back those that stray from the ways of truth.

Answer 5

I think it is saying that the greedy, self-loving, self-serving people are doomed and have ignored God and are now going to hell.
Lovers of themselves and lovers of riches that don't love or think about God will now have to face judgment.
I have never studied the Bible but that is what I get from it.

Answer 6

Misery awaits the wanton rich.

Answer 7

It doesn't address voting at all. But it does address someone who would mistreat others in order to accumulate wealth.

Answer 8

The5loaves2fish and Chris summed it up perfectly. You may hoard the wealth here, but in the hereafter...........

Answer 9

It means that earthly riches wont last so turn to god for the riches that will

Answer 10

I think this was written for wal-mart...lol