Niall Ferguson on the Politics of Catastrophe
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2021
- Niall Ferguson, historian and author of the Ascent of Money and now Doom the Politics of catastrophe joins us on the Intelligence Squared stage to explain the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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We can’t expect government agencies to be very nimble. In my 25 years of working with government agencies, I’ve found them to have a culture of individual self preservation. Decisions are often made that ensure the agency employee cannot be blamed if things go bad. Of course this isn’t true of every agency employee.
Don't forget Sweden (a democracy). I loved their approach to the Covid 19 "crisis":
Step 1. Do nothing
Step 2. Thrive
Promising title but Niall's come across as so trite...for starters he should have read Mao in greater depth and felt his pain and regret when his ambitious agricultural plans failed, causing famine and millions of deaths. Niall is akin to Blinken, sheds tears for his children but none for nations that wary of rampaging democracy.
A great mistake is not worth repeating twice
Nobody needs to waste time reading Mao in any depth.
@@petercollingwood522 A Chinese friend of mine told me that Mao was not only physically filthy but a complete and utter sexual pervert (with children). Anyway that’s what he said and he fled to Hong Kong as a child when Mao took over so perhaps he knows what he’s talking about.
I admire Niall's work but having lived in China (500 miles from Wuhan) during the outbreak, I'd argue that China's handling of the pandemic wasn't 'draconian' in comparison to Taiwan's. Both countries took similar measure fast and early. Here in China we were locked down for 3 weeks at the beginning of the epidemic but got back to normal soon after. We had temp checks/health passport that we need to show every now and again but comparing the inconveniences here to the restrictions I have seen my family in England go through, we had far fewer freedoms curtailed. Excellent interview, keep them coming!
I don’t believe Niall has any personal experience or on the ground viewpoints to go to in China.
The square and the tower is an amazing book, completely changed the way I thought about everything. Haven’t read the new one as I feel it will be too much if you know what I mean. Currently reading Empire, another classic
Too much as in raw history which can be quite scary at times in my opinion
Yeah, Tower & Square was an amazing, groundbreaking, and gorgeously integrative work of impossibly wide scope. Also loved Ascent of Money and look forward to his other works including Doom. (I’ve read 2of his wife’s books and love her, too.)
Worth taking note, particularly of deregulated media, the opposite of conscious awareness Curricula.
Excellent interview with an excellent interviewer
Good conversation
One question that hasn’t been asked of Niall is what specifically causes these regulations and bureaucracies to not be effective. In other words, is it a problem with the plan, or a problem with execution of the plan?
AJ Lundy, In my experience, it's Implentation, usually due to ever increasing Complexity related to Decision Making. I've Worked in Multi Billion Dollar Beurocracy in Government and Private Industry as a Project Manager for Decades and have seen one Weeks work get blown out to many Months due to Stakeholder Power Struggles and complex control Systems.
It used to bother me but now I accept it and occasionally break Rules to complete simple low Risk Tasks. For this I often get an Ass Whipping but they keep me on Payroll because getting things done matters.
It might be that both coming up with and implementing a working policy in itself is extremely difficult. If you look at start-ups in the private sector, you'll find that most of them fail as well: www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/040915/how-many-startups-fail-and-why.asp .
Big companies fail also:
www.aei.org/carpe-diem/fortune-500-firms-1955-v-2017-only-12-remain-thanks-to-the-creative-destruction-that-fuels-economic-prosperity/
Now, maybe if someone else's company fails, we don't feel impacted by that so much as we do if public administration does not work.
The term "creative destruction" is by Joseph Schumpeter who wrote a very influential book about economics in 1942:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism,_Socialism_and_Democracy.
In that book, Schumpeter somewhat pessimistically predicted that a particular form of Socialism will win (not necessarily the Soviet block one, but maybe a greatly overbearing condescending mega-bureaucratic State). I am not sure whether that fear is actually justified, though. It can only happen if a society's problems get so manageable that a bureaucracy can handle them reasonably well. With the increase in change in the modern world, that doesn't seem to be the case. If bureaucracies fail to solve problems in the eyes of many people, they will object and hopefully decrease the grip of overreaching bureaucracies again.
Somewhat ironically, we might learn something about localized problem solving from viruses. Reading Dr. Karin Moelling's book:
www.amazon.com/Viruses-More-Friends-Than-Foes/dp/9813147814,
I was surprised to learn that the majority of the human genome is of viral origin. She writes that it is the same molecular mechanism that an HI virus uses to cause AIDS by disabling the human immune response, that causes pregnant women's bodies to not reject their unborn babies, even though these are made of immunologically alien tissue. You can cut out a part of the human genome, and wrap it in a lipid shell to produce an HI virus. Some of these retro-viruses have become integrated into the genome of their mammal hosts and are no longer causing diseases ...
@@axeletzold9406 Implementation is difficult, here is where Schopenhauer and Will come to be Functional. I have had my own Business fail, I took all the Risk without an endless supply of money to draw on as in Government. The difference is striking. Endless Meetings with Beurocrats hashing over simple decisions that are made much quicker in Corporations. Government Budget and Project delivery dates blown all the time due to dithering which would get people fired in the private Sector.
The Affordable Care Act is a great example. About 2 Years late and Two Trillion over Budget to implement. We are seeing the outcome now with unsustainable Debt Growth which is Crashing the System. Second Half Government Tax Revenue Reports will be published in July. Due to Covid mismanagement we shall likely see Trillion Dollar Gaps in Budgets everywhere. We shall see.
@@michaelpatrick1236 I also have experienced quite often how clumsy public administration is in comparison to private enterprise! I don't know about what the U.S. health care system is like, as I live in Germany.
Now, incidentally, Germany is the country with the longest tradition of compulsory health insurance. It was introduced in 1883 by the -- very conservative -- chancellor Bismarck in order to undermine support for the socialist workers' movement by fulfilling some of their legitimate and at the time not-that-partisan demands.
From what I read about the discussion in the U.S., compulsory health insurance seems to be more a partisan thing of the left. That's an interesting historical difference. Also, I thought for a very long time that forcing people to do something is never a good idea. But then, Prof. Akerlof explained that then, healthy people might just leave a health insurance, that's more expensive than their small expenses. That would require the insurance company to raise premiums. Eventually, the illest person would be the last one to have insurance just before the last remaining insurance company would collapse seconds later. So, that would mean that the choice is between compulsory insurance for everyone or no insurance for anyone:
www.4sighthealth.com/when-healthcare-is-a-lemon-asymmetric-information-and-market-failure/
In order to reduce price inflation, one could introduce more competition, just like David Ricardo proposed. In his time, British corn growers could no longer feed the British population, and there were high tariffs, protecting the land owners there. Ricardo suggested reducing these tariffs to essentially allow French corn into the country. That wasn't popular, as the two countries had been fighting for the previous thirty years:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws.
But if you're not a medical doctor, it will still be difficult to know what treatment is really necessary for your ailments. I don't know how to solve that.
@@axeletzold9406 Thank you for the Information and your View from Germany Axel. I will take proper time to review it and respond tomorrow. In the meantime, I want to let you know I appreciate well reasoned conversation.
Informative. Book added to my ever growing list of to buy
We can learn from history we just choose not to do it. There is no reason for hope. But I still believe what little good we do matters in our lives.
Yet by doing a little good gives you hope that your lives will be better for the future
Why would you suggest there is no reason for hope? What indicates that to you?
@@dougkaterankin2450 human nature we destroy ourselves always.
@@jeremyreagan9085 Yup
Human nature keeps rearing its ugly head with monotonous consistancy but I think its a case of 3 steps forward and 2 back. We may slow our progress with our stupidity but we still gain and improve.
I sure as hell wouldnt want my grandfathers existance and I am delighted my offsprings is an improvement on my own. Thats got to count for something.
Im just astonished and dismayed you find so little reason for hope. I dont think you will find genuine data that suports that view. Admittedly lots of mind numbing, energy sapping political narrative but sod all thats real.
@@dougkaterankin2450 Oh I am not a one who finds our religious slavish belief in hope as a balm. Rather, I take a quiet joy in that humans will not remain forever on this planet. We never appear to actually learn from history in fact take January 6th 2021 we simply believe that one short spark of violence and death will solve our truly global issues like Climate Change or the ever real threat of nuclear destruction. There truly is based on the data in my thinking no real case to made for believing yours or my kids lives will be better then ours. No to me human history makes it clear civilizations grow to a point and eventually self-destruct into chaos and bitter bloodshed. Now let me be clear I love some of the things humans have created like our American folk music in fiddle and banjo music. I am a musician and so music something happy humans made. But, in the finial reading I am not impressed with human civilization for they all will eventually lead to as Dr. Benjamin Franklin said in September of 1787 lead to a despotism because in the end that is the government the people will accept because of their corruption.
Rana, here is an Intelligent point. Position your camera above your screen, so you appear to be talking to your audience. The last I heard it was called "Empathy".
WOT AN UTTER CLOWN
Thanks very much, Rana. Bang up job.
Wonderful content, but hard to listen to because of the very very sharp S's - they hurt my ears.
Nice work
This was illuminating, terrifying and one hopes galvanizing. Would that more crucial discourse be modeled after this conversation. Well done and much appreciated.
You’re being lied too... this world is full of idiots
@@stormwilliams3347 I would agree after your comment
@@stormwilliams3347 Indeed. You'll see one whenever you look in the mirror.
I’ve listened to and read a lot of Niall, and I notice while he gets a number of general, 30,000 foot view, points about China right, he has no knowledge at all at ground level and that explains why his view on why China did what it did for the pandemic is incorrect and uninformed.
Glad to see it has received the under 300 views it deserves
From my modest background, I would disagree with the idea that we could learn from history.
It would be very desirable, if we did, but we don't.
Human memory is not only short, but also very selective. Ferguson is right to emphasize on a long and wide look on history.
However, it is no blueprint how to live the next years to come.
So if you don’t learn that the nazis were bad you would forget that what they did was bad
@@johndoa4839 Apart of National Socialism, the memory of which is certainly being kept alive, would you please, without consulting history books or the internet, give a few historical events from different periods and different geographical places which might serve as lessons to learn from?
@@sabineliebherr5765 That you are serious is mindboggling.
Somewhere, somehow you have been let down terribly.
Our legal system works on historical precedent.
Engineering is a word that defines the use of historically gathered information. The building you are near is an example of this.
Climate change may be an issue determined by comparisons against earlier historical data.
We prepare for potential future crisis on the basis of past experience.
If I am feeling hard done by I compare my existance to my Grandfathers who experienced 2 world wars, a financial depresion, the spanish flue twice and stomach cancer in an era when they couldnt fix it.
You might look at the late 1960s in America. Multiple political assasinations and unrest, the Jim Crow experience before that. Etc etc.
History is chock full of lessons.
A prominent journalist said ....
There is no new news,
Just new ears hearing it.
Suggest reading up on the ideas of John Locke and Rousseau and Jefferson and the long struggle
for the "Rights of the Individual."
Also, suggest reading up on the long struggle for voter's rights which began in 1688
and the 19th century Chartist Movement and their 6 points.
Reading up on this will give a better appreciation of why we have human rights
and the right to vote in a democracy.
If voters knew more about history , politicians and the corporate media would not be able to
manipulate them as easily as they do today.
two narcissist media darlings and purveyors of "this'll make a Davos speech and lecture tour" gimmicks
I wouldn’t listen to his medical viewpoints either LoL
Yes they were stoicis because the welfare state had not been born
I’ll stop here. Sad
Totalitarian regimes tend to inflict excessive mortality on their peoples? What about Bengal famine of 1943 which killed about 5% of the total population? Inflicted by the democratic government of the UK? And some other instances...
Historian lol
The greatest investment that you can ever make is to trust always in the Lord God, but there is only one way:
“I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” - (Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah, at John 14: 6-7)
Where we shall avoid all religions; even that of the Pope and Christianity, because religions are all led by the many false prophets who continue to mislead us. When Jesus alone (in the name of Immanuel) is the Son of man and the true Prophet who was sent by God, to be always our one Teacher. Here follows more of his true teaching…
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” - (at John 4: 24) -
“In truth I tell you, anyone who gives heed to what I say and puts his trust in him who sent me, has hold of eternal life and does not come up for judgement, but has already passed from death to life.” - (at John 5: 24) -
“Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” - (at Matthew 7: 15-16) -
“Do not call any man on earth ‘father’; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.” - (Matthew 23: 9-10) -
“Take care that no one misleads you: For many will come claiming my name…” - (Jesus, at Matthew 24: 4) -
“Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many; and as lawlessness spreads, men’s love for one another will grow cold. But the man who holds out to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the earth as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.” - (Matthew 24: 11-14) -
“You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - (John 8: 32) -
“When you pray, go into a room by yourself, and shut the door. Pray to your Father who is there in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
In your prayers do not go babbling on like the heathen, who imagine that the more they say the more likely they are to be heard.
Do not imitate them. Your Father knows what your needs are before you ask him.
This is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come; your will be done, on earth as in heaven,
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us the wrong we have done, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
And do not bring us to the test, but save us from the evil one.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
For if you forgive others the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, then the wrongs you have done will not be forgiven by your Father.” - (at Matthew 6: 6-15) -
“Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.” - (Matthew 7: 1-2) -
“Truly I tell you; if anyone obeys my teaching he shall never know what it is to die.” - (John 8: 51) -
“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the Prophets.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.” - (Matthew 7: 12-14) -
“I am the gate; anyone who comes into the fold through me shall be safe. He shall go in and out and shall find pasturage.
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.” - (John 10: 9-10) -
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” - (Matthew 7: 21) -
“I am the resurrection and I am life. If a man has faith in me, even though he dies, he shall come to life; and anyone who is alive and has faith shall never die.” - (John 11: 25-26) -
“I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world” - (John 12: 47) -
“Whoever will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven; and whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” - (Matthew 10: 32-34) -
“Any plant that is not of my heavenly Father’s planting will be rooted up. Leave them alone; they are blind guides, and if one blind man guides another they will both fall into the ditch.” - (Matthew 15: 13-14) -
“The disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’
He called a child, set him in front of them, and said, ‘I tell you this: unless you turn round and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Let a man humble himself till he is like this child, and he will be the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me. But if a man is a cause of stumbling to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Alas for the world that such causes of stumbling arise! Come they must, but woe betide the man through who they come!’” - (Matthew 18: 1-7) -
“Though many are called, few are chosen.” - (Matthew 22: 14) -
“An expert in the law, [a leading religious Pharisee] tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That is the greatest commandment. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
Everything in the Law and the Prophets hangs on these two commandments.’” - (Matthew 22: 35-40) -
“There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” - (John 15: 13) -
“One of the criminals who hung there also mocked and taunted him: ‘Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself, and us!’ But the other criminal rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God? You are under the same sentence as he. For us it is plain justice; we are paying the price for our misdeeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.’ And he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ He answered, “I tell you this: today you shall be with me in Paradise.’” - (Luke 23: 39-43) -
“For it is my Father’s will that everyone who looks upon the Son and puts his faith in him shall possess eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day” - (John 6: 40) -
“Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And be assured, I am with you always, to the end of time.” - (Matthew 28: 20) -
Yours, in true Spirit and in our one given prayer, 2gointruth, Thursday the 3rd of June, 2021: - (Matthew 5:14-16) - Where every minute (of both day and night) can be a new beginning for any one of us. Let it always be you. Pray to God often before it is too late.
Noah didn’t think so
@@johndoa4839
How to live by the Law and the Prophets of God: “Always treat others as you would like them to treat you.” And “Love your neighbour as yourself.”
Never worship and pray in the way of religions, not even that of the Pope, his priests or Christianity; because religions are all led by the many false prophets who continue to mislead us. When Jesus alone (in the name of Immanuel) is the Son of man and the true Prophet who was sent by the Lord God, to be always our one Teacher…
“I will raise up for them a prophet like you [Moses] from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth.” - (at Deuteronomy 18: 18) -
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel.” [“God is with us”] - (The Prophet Isaiah 7: 14) -
“If you have ears to hear, then hear.” - (Jesus, in the name of Immanuel, the Messiah, at Mark 4: 23) -
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” - (Jesus, at John 4: 24) -
“In truth I tell you, anyone who gives heed to what I say and puts his trust in him who sent me, has hold of eternal life and does not come up for judgement, but has already passed from death to life.” - (at John 5: 24) -
“Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” - (at Matthew 7: 15-16) -
“Do not call any man on earth ‘father’; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.” - (Matthew 23: 9-10) -
“Take care that no one misleads you: For many will come claiming my name…” - (Jesus, at Matthew 24: 4) -
“Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many; and as lawlessness spreads, men’s love for one another will grow cold. But the man who holds out to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the earth as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.” - (Matthew 24: 11-14) -
“I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” - (John 14: 6-7) -
“When you pray, go into a room by yourself, and shut the door. Pray to your Father who is there in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
In your prayers do not go babbling on like the heathen, who imagine that the more they say the more likely they are to be heard.
Do not imitate them. Your Father knows what your needs are before you ask him.
This is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come; your will be done, on earth as in heaven,
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us the wrong we have done, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
And do not bring us to the test, but save us from the evil one.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
For if you forgive others the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, then the wrongs you have done will not be forgiven by your Father.” - (at Matthew 6: 6-15) -
“Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.” - (Matthew 7: 1-2) -
“Truly I tell you; if anyone obeys my teaching he shall never know what it is to die.” - (John 8: 51) -
“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the Prophets.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.” - (Matthew 7: 12-14) -
“I am the gate; anyone who comes into the fold through me shall be safe. He shall go in and out and shall find pasturage.
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.” - (John 10: 9-10) -
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” - (Matthew 7: 21) -
“I am the resurrection and I am life. If a man has faith in me, even though he dies, he shall come to life; and anyone who is alive and has faith shall never die.” - (John 11: 25-26) -
“I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world” - (John 12: 47) -
“Whoever will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven; and whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” - (Matthew 10: 32-34) -
“Any plant that is not of my heavenly Father’s planting will be rooted up. Leave them alone; they are blind guides, and if one blind man guides another they will both fall into the ditch.” - (Matthew 15: 13-14) -
“The disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’
He called a child, set him in front of them, and said, ‘I tell you this: unless you turn round and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Let a man humble himself till he is like this child, and he will be the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me. But if a man is a cause of stumbling to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Alas for the world that such causes of stumbling arise! Come they must, but woe betide the man through who they come!’” - (Matthew 18: 1-7) -
“Though many are called, few are chosen.” - (Matthew 22: 14) -
“An expert in the law, [a leading religious Pharisee] tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That is the greatest commandment. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
Everything in the Law and the Prophets hangs on these two commandments.’” - (Matthew 22: 35-40) -
“There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” - (John 15: 13) -
"Stay awake, and pray that you may be spared the test: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." - (Matthew 26: 41) -
“However, when he comes who is the Spirit of truth; he will guide you into all the truth.” - (John 16: 13) -
“Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And be assured, I am with you always, to the end of time.” - (Matthew 28: 20) -
Yours, in true Spirit and in our one given prayer, 2gointruth, Thursday the 17th of June, 2021: - (Matthew 5:14-16) - Where every minute (of both day and night) can be a new beginning for any one of us. Let it always be you. Pray to God often before it is too late.
How to live by the Law and the Prophets of God: “Always treat others as you would like them to treat you.” And “Love your neighbour as yourself.”
Never worship and pray in the way of religions, not even that of the Pope, his priests or Christianity; because religions are all led by the many false prophets who continue to mislead us. When Jesus alone (in the name of Immanuel) is the Son of man and the true Prophet who was sent by the Lord God, to be always our one Teacher…
“I will raise up for them a prophet like you [Moses] from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth.” - (at Deuteronomy 18: 18) -
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel.” [“God is with us”] - (The Prophet Isaiah 7: 14) -
“If you have ears to hear, then hear.” - (Jesus, in the name of Immanuel, the Messiah, at Mark 4: 23) -
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” - (Jesus, at John 4: 24) -
“In truth I tell you, anyone who gives heed to what I say and puts his trust in him who sent me, has hold of eternal life and does not come up for judgement, but has already passed from death to life.” - (at John 5: 24) -
“Beware of false prophets, men who come to you dressed up as sheep while underneath they are savage wolves. You will recognize them by the fruits they bear.” - (at Matthew 7: 15-16) -
“Do not call any man on earth ‘father’; for you have one Father and he is in heaven. Nor must you be called ‘teacher’; you have one Teacher, the Messiah.” - (Matthew 23: 9-10) -
“Take care that no one misleads you: For many will come claiming my name…” - (Jesus, at Matthew 24: 4) -
“Many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many; and as lawlessness spreads, men’s love for one another will grow cold. But the man who holds out to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the earth as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.” - (Matthew 24: 11-14) -
“I am the way; I am the truth and I am life; no one comes to the Father except by me. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” - (John 14: 6-7) -
“When you pray, go into a room by yourself, and shut the door. Pray to your Father who is there in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
In your prayers do not go babbling on like the heathen, who imagine that the more they say the more likely they are to be heard.
Do not imitate them. Your Father knows what your needs are before you ask him.
This is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come; your will be done, on earth as in heaven,
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us the wrong we have done, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
And do not bring us to the test, but save us from the evil one.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
For if you forgive others the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, then the wrongs you have done will not be forgiven by your Father.” - (at Matthew 6: 6-15) -
“Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.” - (Matthew 7: 1-2) -
“Truly I tell you; if anyone obeys my teaching he shall never know what it is to die.” - (John 8: 51) -
“Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the Prophets.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.” - (Matthew 7: 12-14) -
“I am the gate; anyone who comes into the fold through me shall be safe. He shall go in and out and shall find pasturage.
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its fullness.” - (John 10: 9-10) -
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” - (Matthew 7: 21) -
“I am the resurrection and I am life. If a man has faith in me, even though he dies, he shall come to life; and anyone who is alive and has faith shall never die.” - (John 11: 25-26) -
“I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world” - (John 12: 47) -
“Whoever will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven; and whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” - (Matthew 10: 32-34) -
“Any plant that is not of my heavenly Father’s planting will be rooted up. Leave them alone; they are blind guides, and if one blind man guides another they will both fall into the ditch.” - (Matthew 15: 13-14) -
“The disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’
He called a child, set him in front of them, and said, ‘I tell you this: unless you turn round and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Let a man humble himself till he is like this child, and he will be the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me. But if a man is a cause of stumbling to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Alas for the world that such causes of stumbling arise! Come they must, but woe betide the man through who they come!’” - (Matthew 18: 1-7) -
“Though many are called, few are chosen.” - (Matthew 22: 14) -
“An expert in the law, [a leading religious Pharisee] tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That is the greatest commandment. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
Everything in the Law and the Prophets hangs on these two commandments.’” - (Matthew 22: 35-40) -
“There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” - (John 15: 13) -
"Stay awake, and pray that you may be spared the test: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." - (Matthew 26: 41) -
“However, when he comes who is the Spirit of truth; he will guide you into all the truth.” - (John 16: 13) -
“Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And be assured, I am with you always, to the end of time.” - (Matthew 28: 20) -
Yours, in true Spirit and in our one given prayer, 2gointruth, Thursday the 17th of June, 2021: - (Matthew 5:14-16) - Where every minute (of both day and night) can be a new beginning for any one of us. Let it always be you. Pray to God often before it is too late.
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