Is work a punishment from God?

Religion News Service ^ | August 30, 2012 | Daniel Burke

[Just mythoughts]

Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm

Labor Day is the invention of the unions. They were not satisfied with government setting a minimum wage they needed a ‘day’ to honor themselves. Anyone think for one moment that what God said means squat to the fathers of the union movement?

[Chode]

work is God's way of keeping you out of the bar all day...

[Misterioso]

If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be here today.

[Chode]

work is God's way of keeping you out of the bar all day...

[sauropod]

Now, now...

[Redmen4ever]

It’s appears that man was expelled from the Garden not merely for the sin of eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil but also for attempting to blame another (he his wife and she the serpent). It might have been, if man had simply repented, God would have forgiven them. Which is worse, brother, the sin or the cover-up? We, being human, can’t help but sin. God, being God, is anxious to forgive us.

[rabidralph]

:-0

[goodnesswins]

Although I'm a Christian I always remember this pronouncement by some Chinese guy....

Before Enlightenment....Chop Wood, Carry Water. After Enlightenment....Chop Wood, Carry Water.

[elcid1970]

Work!

Thank God for the might of it,
The ardor, the urge, the delight of it-
Work that springs from the heart’s desire,
Setting the brain and the soul on fire-
Oh, what is so good as the heat of it,
And what is so glad as the beat of it,
And what is so kind as the stern command,
Challenging brain and heart and hand?

Work!
Thank God for the pride of it,
For the beautiful, conquering tide of it,
Sweeping the life in its furious flood,
Thrilling the arteries, cleansing the blood,
Mastering stupor and dull despair,
Moving the dreamer to do and dare.
Oh, what is so good as the urge of it,
And what is so good as the surge of it,
And what is so strong as the summons deep,
Rousing the torpid soul from sleep?

Excerpt from “Work: A Song of Triumph”
Angela Morgan, 1930

[newzjunkey]

Having no work is a punishment from God.

Or something.

[trebb]

First, man worked in the Garden of Eden, so work was not a punishment. Wait, even before man worked in the Garden, God had worked for six days. What was God being being punished for? Second, with the expulsion, man’s work was made burdensome Third, the Bible says this was “for man’s sake.” The Hebrew words could equally be translated “because of man” (i.e., because he sinned), and “for man’s sake” (i.e., work is redemptive). I think both translations are valid.

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[elcid1970]

Somewhere in Scripture it says that God originally placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden “to dress it & keep it”, not just to eat & while their time away.

When He expelled them, however, work became a matter of sheer survival. In my humble opinion, work can be a form of worship of Him Who grants us the strength through His grace to be able to do so.

[brivette]

well, it was work, it fed my family.

[ravenwolf]

Most people who are not lazy will work much harder playing than working, lazy people will not do either one any more than they have too.

Workaholics do not work because they love work, they do it because they want to get there.

Gen 2:15
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

I did a little of that when i was a kid and it is work.

I don,t know if god insists on people working or not, but since he tells us not to steal then maybe we should work to eat, on the other hand if some one would rather starve rather than work i have no problem with that.

That is why the usa was set up the way it was, so people could be free to work at what they wanted or what was necessary to make a living or even prosper.

And other people are free to sit on their behinds and go hungry.

That is why it should not be up to the Government to feed people, it should be up to the people to feed people because they know who can work and who can not work.

Even the most worthless cuss in the county will work if they have to but if you run over and feed them before they get hungry why would they have too.

I can not even imagine why any one would have to go through the Bible to try to determine if work is a punishment or not.

[FreedomNotSafety]

“Payday Someday” its a staple of liberation theology. But of course we will have heaven on Earth first..right? Obama is covering the food, rent, cellphone, gasoline and even making sure we all get our Social Security.