No.2 Referenced from ~ Part1 - Chapter 1 - Essay 2 Not "You evil" But "You fool"?
I feel that virtue, which is maintained because one is convinced that things one cannot see are true, is worse than the obvious profit-seeking of prosperity for business, because the motive is hidden. Jesus is said to have spoken to the crowd as follows.
The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, "What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops." Then he said, "This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, 'You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.'" But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?" (LUKE12:16-21 NIV)
It is utilitarian that God does not call the rich man "You evil" but "You fool." He was not accused of being greedy, but of the opposite - of miscalculating. Is this the right way to criticize to him? |