Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 3, 2018 11:58:39 GMT
This episode from the New Testament remains controversial to this day. I even had a friendly disagreement with my august colleague Drystyx about it. So who thinks Ananias and Saphira were innocent victims, and who thinks they were a couple of creeps? I lean more to the couple of creeps scenario.
Strangely perhaps, I am reminded of General Fromm's involvement in the 1944 conspiracy to off Hitler and get Germany out of a war it was losing. Fromm was okay with Hitler being assassinated and the Nazis thrown out, but only if it worked, and he would have no part of a failure. The entire plan hinged on Hitler dying, and then Hitler turned up alive, so Fromm quickly had General Olbricht and Colonel Stauffenberg shot to cover up his complicity. It did him not much good as Joseph Goebbels (the Nazi equivalent to the Holy Spirit?) saw it for what it was and then Fromm was shot. Seems to me there are some things where you're either in all the way or you're out all the way. No holding back. No sitting on the fence and waiting to see which side is going to win.