Hey, dunno bout you but I sure am!

Now how does this work.... if I don't get vaccinated I will live forever?

Or is it just that I won't die of cancer (i.e. some gross disease gets me first coz I wasn't vaccinated)?

I'm not sure how the Arabs will handle the tourists they want to come there now as my mother had to wear a full burkha att all times when on the streets or she would get in trouble with the religious police. Tourists are welcome but you have to wear this black tent!

You'd think the guy could have done something but apparently not.... or maybe he was too worried about hurting the snake like the Sheriffs officers were.

You are talking business, I am talking scripture. That is why we disagree.

An example: "Imagine a person who shells out over $35,000 dollars for Seminary training and preparation". A scriptural example for this?

There isn't one. Again, not a biblical precept; an institution established by man to usurp the teaching position of the Holy Ghost. Roman Catholic origins...

As for "The labourer is worthy of his hire" (Luke 10:7) a brief glance at the immediate context - where these labourers are instructed to carry neither purse nor scrip, and to "eat and drink such things as are set before you" - shows that a fixed salary was the last thing our Lord had in view.

You won't find a single reference in NT scripture to 'the pastor' nor will you find a church epistle written to 'the pastor'.

That is why we need to reason from scripture & not from our own notions. I am not saying that many (probably most) of the pastors out there are not genuine and well-meaning. Just that their position is not scriptural.

As I said (freewill) gifts are scriptural, a salary is certainly not. If you can't see that the two are quite different no-one can help you. A preacher on a salary is a hireling, he preaches for money.

The *only* case in Scripture of a 'minister' receiving a fixed salary occurs in Judges 17 where a man named Micah contracted and paid a Levite priest to serve in his house of idols and images. Great example Wayne!

"how is a man to take care of and provide for the needs of his family? To me, this is a dumb statement!"

Get a job. Paul was a tent maker,Peter a fisherman etc.... not a one of the apostles were hirelings as you deceitfully claim. Yes they receieved gifts but never a salary; they preached regardless of if they recieved any gifts or not. You accuse the scriptures of being dumb, not me.