Any good material on how Jesus' and Paul's teaching can be combined?

He was talking about someone who could work, but decided to be lazy

Said by every republican ever about the long term unemployed whom they want to lift themselves by their boot straps. I didn't remember Jesus putting those caveats in that gave people the authority to determine whether someone was lazy or just unable to earn money. There are some doctors who claim laziness is a myth and humans just have different capabilities of output. Paul's deviations from the message of Jesus, coupled with a reliance on him as a superior authority is the reason so many Christians leave a bad impression on the world at large.

Jesus didn't leave it up to Christians to decide who's too lazy for food and who's not. It's that logic that has people refusing to help homeless, because they could just work. It's that logic that drives work requirements for medicaid which results in job losses. Most people don't work because they didn't find a slave master willing to say yes in way that would make their family better off instead of worse off. Not because they are lazy. Paul's direct contravention of Jesus instructions are the reason Christianity has so many failed opportunities to be a light.

I've begged for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of jobs over the years. I'm just too lazy to eat I suppose. Most christians secretly define "not lazy" as willingness to lick whatever boot you need to you regardless of what it does to you. They do this because of Paul, in direct contravention of Jesus, whose instructions were about making the world a better place, not about picking and choosing who's a loser so that you don't have to care about them.

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