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If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That's the one, funnily enough in a perverted twist, they tend to see wealth as a sign that God has picked them as favourites (graced them) and they storically gravitated toward seeing poor people as, well, sinners, even thought their principles state that anyone could be graced or not no matter the more evident aspects of life.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

This isn't Calvinism. This is prosperity theology, which is it's own thing.

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