Warren Buffett Buys the World's Most Expensive Worthless Ticket
If you remember my post from Monday on Warren Buffett's massive donation to charity, I made the following statement: "I don't know if he's prepared for what will happen to him after death, but I know he's aware of one thing: not a penny of it is going with him."
Well, in a statement made while signing the pledge to the Gates' charity, he removed all doubt. Buffett said, "There is more than one way to get to heaven, but this is a great way." Clearly, Buffett understands that you can't take it with you, but apparently, that being the case, he figured he would then use it now to buy a ticket to heaven. So, what at first sounds like a wonderful act of kindness turns out to be just another self-centered ploy to get ahead and snooker his way into heaven.
Though it is truly great that this money will actually turn out to benefit many hundreds of thousands of people (one can only assume), it will most certainly not turn out to benefit Buffett, himself.
I would like to think it just ignorance, because if not, it is the highest level of arrogance one can imagine. How can we possibly believe that it is possible to either be good enough to merit an absolutely holy God's favor or to think that you can flop some cash around and buy God off. This is what the apostle Paul meant when he wrote, "It is by [God's] grace you are saved through faith; and that faith is not of yourselves. It is a gift of God not as a result of works so that you cannot boast [regarding your good works].
Sorry Warren, but there are no more ways to get into heaven than there are ways for that money of yours to get to those charities. It doesn't matter how many ways one might like for there to be, if you don't sign the document (the one and only way), the money doesn't move. In the same way that the money is distributed according to your terms, eternity is determined on God's terms, and He said there is only one:
Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father (God) except through me." (John 14:6). [italics added]
Well, in a statement made while signing the pledge to the Gates' charity, he removed all doubt. Buffett said, "There is more than one way to get to heaven, but this is a great way." Clearly, Buffett understands that you can't take it with you, but apparently, that being the case, he figured he would then use it now to buy a ticket to heaven. So, what at first sounds like a wonderful act of kindness turns out to be just another self-centered ploy to get ahead and snooker his way into heaven.
Though it is truly great that this money will actually turn out to benefit many hundreds of thousands of people (one can only assume), it will most certainly not turn out to benefit Buffett, himself.
I would like to think it just ignorance, because if not, it is the highest level of arrogance one can imagine. How can we possibly believe that it is possible to either be good enough to merit an absolutely holy God's favor or to think that you can flop some cash around and buy God off. This is what the apostle Paul meant when he wrote, "It is by [God's] grace you are saved through faith; and that faith is not of yourselves. It is a gift of God not as a result of works so that you cannot boast [regarding your good works].
Sorry Warren, but there are no more ways to get into heaven than there are ways for that money of yours to get to those charities. It doesn't matter how many ways one might like for there to be, if you don't sign the document (the one and only way), the money doesn't move. In the same way that the money is distributed according to your terms, eternity is determined on God's terms, and He said there is only one:
Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father (God) except through me." (John 14:6). [italics added]
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 6/28/2006 03:50:00 PM
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And to add insult to truth, no doubt part of it will go to a foundation already set up, which has received the promise of monies, that will send millions to pro-choice places of establishment and advertising (ie killing children unborn). This is unfortunate indeed and definately a further sign of the self-centeredness of the giver.
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