The REAL Lesson of A Christmas Carol #Shorts #AChristmasCarol #Scrooge #AndrewKlavan #DailyWire
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@richelliott93202 жыл бұрын
The past isn’t changed but the future is
@h0bgobl1n2 жыл бұрын
I thought Tiny Tim remains alive due to the fact that Scrooge had foreseen the childs death? Didn't this result in Ebenezer changing his attitude towards his wealth and cause him to pay his; up till then impoverished employee a better salary as Scrooge realises it hadn't been sufficient to feed Cratchits children, and resulted in the ill health of tim who was likely suffering from rickets resulting from malnutrition?
@dbrjejdk38478 ай бұрын
Yes. You can change the future but not the past.
@deleinedean70888 ай бұрын
Plus he now has a relationship with his nephew.
@wallychampen16958 ай бұрын
You're right 👍
@CM-wj2ow7 ай бұрын
He also gave his maid a substantial raise that could only have changed the course of her life as well.
@minhajnizam50907 ай бұрын
He helps Bob Cratchitt with finding good doctors for Tim and even pays for it so Bob could focus his finances on other things and that gives the Cratchitts a better life
@victorsmith52062 жыл бұрын
The literal translation of “repent”
@titanstorage7104 Жыл бұрын
Yes as repent means to have a change of heart and to turn around.
@beckyclaychristensen112710 ай бұрын
@@titanstorage7104😊😊
@MelanieNLee8 ай бұрын
@@titanstorage7104 Nit-picking, but "repent" means "to think again"--a change of mind. (Of course, when the mind changes, the heart may change, too, and vice-versa.)
@bvanderlaan132 жыл бұрын
I love a Christmas Carol. I read it every year. My favorite message is that it's never too late to redeem yourself. There is always hope every time you breath in a new day if you choose it.
@MrCjchamp20018 ай бұрын
It’s never too late as long as you’re alive. That was what Marley was trying to tell him. “ I come tonight to warn you that you have yet the chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer”
@lizicadumitru96832 жыл бұрын
He can make the change for others who he's harmed that's called reconciliation.
@titanstorage7104 Жыл бұрын
The maid’s reaction is so beautifully done. Him dancing around is wonderful for bringing joy. Just a great movie.
@matweb81952 жыл бұрын
Alistair Sim was a fantastic actor!
@StoryboardMindset2 жыл бұрын
The ONLY Scrooge as far as I'm concerned. What a fantastic performance.
@CM-wj2ow7 ай бұрын
I'm with you. This has always been my favorite version.
@c.a.g.31307 ай бұрын
A comic actor can portray drama and tragedy infinitely better than a dramatic actor can portray comedy. Jackie Gleason could make you weep in Gigot, but Richard Burton could never make you laugh.
@mrlopezsbrother43732 жыл бұрын
My third graders love this movie...it's not about changing the past, nothing can do that...but you can change yourself and have a positive impact on those around you. The kids imagine Scrooge reconnecting with Alice, making Bob and Fred partners in busines, and Marleys ghost finding peace
@lisab95418 ай бұрын
Smart kids.
@macginther24845 ай бұрын
Love it!
@nancythomas95892 жыл бұрын
Best ever Scrooge movie.
@LunchboxNobodies8 ай бұрын
My favorite black and white version of a Christmas classic 😊😊😊
@christiandpaul6314 ай бұрын
Parts of it should be in color.
@honeydroptheunicorn65572 жыл бұрын
Who says he doesn't make amends after that moment, the end of the story is a start of a new story for him.
@p34rl20 Жыл бұрын
That's essentially what Mr. Klavan is saying.
@christiandpaul6314 ай бұрын
Not really. He is saying all the suffering Scrooge caused can not be undone. @@p34rl20
@johnrichey74948 ай бұрын
To say Scrooge is not punished seems to ignore that Scrooge’s whole life of greed and meanness was a self-punishment. That punishment ended when he changed and found redemption.
@JohnRedshaw8 ай бұрын
He doesn't see the world through a Christian perspective! He sees himself as an agent for good for the first time in his life. He never says that he has come to a religious perspective in any way! He's come to a reclamation on his own! He CAN help Bob Crachit, he CAN help Tiny Tim live, he CAN have the generous spirit of Christmas throughout the year! Most of all, a generous heart for all Mankind.
@mm48942 жыл бұрын
I can't change his past actions, but he can and does change his future actions.
@johnmullenix11768 ай бұрын
The. “ BEST “REDEMPTION“ SCENE known in cinema History was Alastair George Bell Sim playing Ebinezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens classic. “ A CHRISTMAS CAROL “
@Nill7572 жыл бұрын
Greatly appreciate your commentary Mr Klavan
@broskkuttub65432 жыл бұрын
No he doesn't he sees it through a humanitarian perspective. Stop usurping morality like it's exclusively religious people who have it..
@bmck-8400 Жыл бұрын
Yes that’s all anybody can do…he hadn’t broke any laws… he was operating under the laws of the day… He could only try and do better going forward…that’s what redemption is all about Charlie Brown.
@kotkafer22922 жыл бұрын
Never have i looked at scrooge and thought "Hey he changed to a *christian* view", because scrooges view is in no way religious or even caused by god. He didnt change because he saw the spirits, he changed because he saw what he himself did but from another perspective. How exactly is that specifically a "Christian view"?
@cardiabardia4392 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly. I was very confused how anyone concluded learning valuable lessons in humility could be construed as a Christian value... Its something we all face, dogma or not.
@GZQ92 жыл бұрын
I mean I think his worldview is certainly not one that is unique to Christians, but I could see how someone (especially a Christian) would interpret it that way
@GZQ92 жыл бұрын
@@greymatter-TRTH haha well it sure didn’t start that way lol
@LiMaking2 жыл бұрын
@@greymatter-TRTH yeah the christians took the festivities that was already in place when they christianized scandinavia.
@pattygould82402 жыл бұрын
"and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truely said of all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!" Sounds kind of Christian.
@em3332 жыл бұрын
The best Christmas story
@schrodingerssnufalufagus92922 жыл бұрын
I think another fundamental lesson is that Scrooge would have never had his transformation without the fear caused by seeing what he was facing in the after life.
@Cynnas2 жыл бұрын
I disagree, it's takes a significant change of heart to be a good person rather than just fear of an afterlife. I mean look at all the "good Christians" who aren't actually good people.
@stadot14272 жыл бұрын
@@Cynnas you're right in that it's not just fear that brings about "metanoia" or repentance. Scrooge had to have hope as well. When he wakes from his visions, he is joyful, hopeful, and generous because he knows there is hope for redemption. But still: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. - Proverbs 1:7
@wonderwinder12 жыл бұрын
Nope. It just sealed the deal. He was already seeing the consequences of his behaviour.
@ThorMaximus2 жыл бұрын
@@wonderwinder1 Absolutely. Anyone who hasn’t read the book doesn’t get this. The first ghost revisits a Christmas at his boyhood school & initially recalls the joys and hopes once felt, until upon hearing friends making merry while young Scrooge remained behind, solitary & forgotten with only books for company. It was his first experience in bitterness towards Christmas & caused Scrooge to weep for the boy he was & momentarily regret the neglect he inflicted on a boy the night previous. The spirit takes him to a Christmas when his sister Fan, whom he truly loved, came to finally bring him home upon convincing his estranged father. It’s further reinforced how Fan is the only source of love he had known through a final interaction with the cruel Schoolmaster prior to departing. It is significant for he bears lasting impact from the contrast of cruelty and love. They immediately discuss Fan’s death & his nephew, which triggered an uneasy feeling in Scrooge, but the Spirit doesn’t give time for him to think upon it further as they visit Fezziwig, representing a time long forgotten by Scrooge as an apprentice experienced first hand the how small acts of kindness impacted him in such a large way. In that moment, Scrooge felt the Spirit’s gaze & knew the reason for this visit was about Bob Cratchet. The final visit was the to relive a Christmas of which Scrooge’s greatest regret would be relived, and would from that point send him on his path. In his accumulation of wealth & power, he “chose a gold idol”, and lost his true love; and in further torment was forced to bear witness to the what could have been the life he foolishly dismissed to his own anguish. In the journey with the second spirit, mostly told with visits to Chrachit & Fred, the story takes them to observe multiple other aspects of the lessons taught, of exploiting the day by those for greed, and Scrooge asking of many questions that showed where his lack of understanding what greatest. In witnessing the Crachit family, the lesson of his own lost family is felt closely as is the lesson of Fezziwig. It witnessing Fred, he finally begins to see the error of what it really means to resent his nephew, the very son of his beloved sister Fan. He sees that , in nature, Fred is his sister-especially in how he never gives up on having him home for Christmas. When he realizes that he has rejected Fred he has undone all the love his sister shown to him, perhaps the worst of all his misdeeds. For those just watching a movie version, the first two spirits don’t teach a lesson and Scrooge is scared into doing the right things in fear of punishment. But the story shows he’s taken great lessons from the first two spirits, and it’s not enough to use his wealth to atone for the cruelty he chose to show like his former schoolmaster; but instead to expound his wisdom and means to help others in making the right decisions to help themselves and shine as an example for others to follow. He’s greatly motivated to do so as if he dies, he’s lost the chance to help others in ways few can
@michaelt36142 жыл бұрын
This comment section made my day. It’s nice to see this kind of critical thinking.
@chodeshadar182 жыл бұрын
I never realized the human damage he'd done, but if I had, I woulda assumed he'd try to repair it but helping the people he's hurt. In Judaism that's necessary for teshuva, true repentance!
@bernardokrolo22752 жыл бұрын
In catholic's teaching is same..
@mrzabie01382 жыл бұрын
In the story, he does do that by giving Bob Cratchet a big raise sending them the prize turkey and taking care of Tiny Tim, becoming an uncle to him.
@johnkane18007 ай бұрын
@@bernardokrolo2275no Catholicism doesn’t require rectifying any sins, only changing in heart St Dismis literally just died on the cross next to Jesus and did nothing to help the people he hurt
@shananalexander97892 жыл бұрын
This is actually the best “Scrooge” movie ever made.
@billcox88702 жыл бұрын
The 1951 version with Alastair Sims is also my favourite.
@hoopthornseaweed2 жыл бұрын
It really was
@jrowlet Жыл бұрын
1984 version with George Scott (which was film version most true to the book).
@havanafayre2 жыл бұрын
This is my biggest pet peeve during the holidays. Grumpy, mean people are called scrooge or grinch. People just completely miss the point! At the end of A Christmas Carol, the narrator says: it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. At the end of the Grinch, his heart grew 3 sizes and he got to carve the roast beast! It should be a major compliment to be called a scrooge or a grinch. But no, apparently society has decided that you are forever guilty of your past sins and are condemned for eternity. Doesn't matter what you do to repent, you don't get a second chance.
@MrCjchamp20018 ай бұрын
That’s your view. Most people don’t take accountability.
@debbiethomas26228 ай бұрын
There's always someone that is going to think and talk bad of you, whether you are always reasonably 'good' or make changes to be a better person. I think the comedian Kat Stevens said it best: "Haters (for legitimate reasons or made up ones like jealousy) are always going to hate on something, that's their job. Let them do their job as nothing you do will change that" - Kat Stevens. That's the fact of life. Can't please and love everyone, have to please and love yourself and treat others how you want to be treated.
@TheLocoUnion7 ай бұрын
Throughout most of the stories of Grinch and Scrooge, (95 percent of the films ) we see the dark side of the characters. So our minds automatically descend to the negative. The stories are not really about how great these persons were, but how bad they were and their personal journey to the light.
@brendanl25802 жыл бұрын
He sees the world with empathy, not a Christian perspective. Stop trying to shoe horn your religion into everything to get recognition it doesn't deserve.
@ABW7767 ай бұрын
Christmas is literally the birth of Christ
@dougwilliams86022 жыл бұрын
Wish Dickens would have added a return of Scrooge to visit Alice
@leylayasar862 жыл бұрын
i'd resent that ending. no amount of repent can repair what he has done to her. its better this way.
@gmashello90108 ай бұрын
He's changed and in turn, he will make a change in the world. Just as we as Christians do.
@edwardfindley84832 жыл бұрын
George C Scott was the best Scooge.
@jrowlet Жыл бұрын
Agreed. The 1984 film version in which he performed was the film version most true to the Charles Dickens book.
@NGMonocrom7 ай бұрын
It is heavily implied that Scrooge will treat his assistant Bob much better from now on. With a raise, and paying off Tim's surgery so that he not only doesn't expire, but so that he can walk properly. No, he can't go back in time and fix his past misdeeds. But he can fix some of his more recent ones. And, he can make sure to be a better man going forwards into the future with how he treats people he WILL meet.
@PoesRaven738 ай бұрын
At the end when Scrooge says “I don’t deserve to be so happy”, I always thought “that’s right; you don’t!”
@FemiNelson-sb1em26 күн бұрын
Nope, you're wrong. He changed for the better to save Tiny Tim's life, to help the Orphanage, to accept his nephew & lovely wife's love, Blessing the little boy with $ for obeying Scrooge in having the Butcher bring the humongous Turkey for his employee's family Christmas meal, opening the wife's heart to the miracle of how a person will grow given the chance & etc. You clearly dropped the ball & need to watch step by step the acts in this beautiful movie that does affect many today. Paz be with us all 🙏. "Isa"
@miistiqxhana78732 жыл бұрын
Jesus loves y’all:) share the gospel not forcing
@bait30272 жыл бұрын
No one else will go to prison, people he’s affected will change their opinion, nobody will suffer needlessly, etc. Classism, racism, sexism, will end
@keenbaker-dias11372 жыл бұрын
Exactly..the moral of the story is chuck money at the problem and things will be fine.
@SuperVt1002 жыл бұрын
The man just got saved, so to speak. Give him a break. The proof is in the pudding. The hard stuff comes later. How does he fair long term? Anyway, the whole idea behind being saved or starting afresh is what does one does long term. Scrooge is about a man who sees the eternal consequences of what he's done and wakes up alive and full of joy. It is not a story of someone who wakes up and solves all the problems of the whole world instantly. No one does that. It is the story of someone who's been given a second chance, starting over. It is not a story of someone who rewrites his history. The basic tenet of Christianity is one leaves their past behind and gets a second chance at life.
@crystalross22842 жыл бұрын
Ultimately, you can't change the past but you can change the present and therefore the Future.
@stefanielucu73657 ай бұрын
I always saw it a story of redemption. He sees his mistakes and see where and when he lost his way. He changes his ways and tries to help others. In the book, it mentions how he kind he became.
@nicolab20752 жыл бұрын
Religion is hardly mentioned. One of the things I like about Christmas Carol is you don't have to see the message as Christian at all.
@kotkafer22922 жыл бұрын
Yeah Scrooge doesnt change because of the spirits, hell he literally laughs at them, but because hes seen his own actions from another perspective
@sandrablanchette22397 ай бұрын
Sometimes changing yourself is the biggest miracle of all.
@yuvgotubekidding7 ай бұрын
He gave Bob Cratchit a raise in salary and vowed to help him raise his family out of poverty.
@ednajeanamos72242 жыл бұрын
The best movie ever
@stormhawk33198 ай бұрын
Scrooge is the classic example of “I cannot re-write what I did in the past but I can correct for the present and future”.
@jamestiscareno4387 Жыл бұрын
In the end, all that really matters and the only things we can take with us when we leave this world, are the rememberances of the relationships we've had with those who were near and dear to us.
@johnrichey74948 ай бұрын
Scrooge changes and he does make things better for others: he donates to charity which improves the lives of the poor, he gives Bob Cratchit a raise which improves the living conditions of the family, he helps fund Tiny Tim’s medical care which enables him to live, he rejoins his nephew and family and continued to live a kind and generous life. To suggest that only Scrooge changes is a mischaracterization of the novel.
@angieolson17417 ай бұрын
Isn’t that the way it is for everyone? No one can go back and change anything. We just move forward with our repentance and do our best
@eastonvonschist22832 жыл бұрын
Changing how you look at the world does not necessarily have anything to do with religion
@1moderntalking12 жыл бұрын
Its more than Metanoia… since he can help a poor family.
@sxceve258 ай бұрын
One of Best Christmas movies, plus he helped Tiny Tim...❤
@UrsulaPainter6 ай бұрын
Absolutely. Thank you!
@genenco12 жыл бұрын
The sad thing, it's built on pagan actions. The Catholics in trying to convert the pagans, decided to change the tree to a "Christmas Tree" which was spoken about in the bible. Jeremiah 10 1-5.
@waltcarey78277 ай бұрын
Scrooge changed ONLY when he saw his grave headstone. If he REALLY was repentant, he'd have changed during the Ghost of Xmas Present as he saw the results of everything wrong he'd done.
@ZombieGrandpa8 ай бұрын
Well said brother, well said.
@ungmd219 ай бұрын
One of my favorite stories. Hope that anyone can be forgiven and change
@wtk60692 жыл бұрын
Klavan is giving the lesson in "A Christmas Carol" that many of us learned in grammar school when we were made to read it. but that doesn't make it incorrect.
@patriciocristobalgallardoz3417 ай бұрын
One of the Best. The other: George C. Scott
@jamesdrynan8 ай бұрын
His reclamation? Dicken's tale has been filmed 16 times over the years. I have watched these efforts and for me, Alistair Sim's portrayal of Scrooge is the definitive version.
@earthchansociety77692 жыл бұрын
No, he fundamentally recognizes the necessity to act and live as a better person. Scrooge relearned empathy and atoned for his guilt. God would never have forgiven him otherwise
@Voltaic_Fire2 жыл бұрын
Christian? I don't recall ever seeing an interpretation that even mentions religion, much less that brand. Even the name of Christmas barely has any link to the religion anymore, the most it has none at all.
@MrFilmSmith8 ай бұрын
A Scrooge is someone who changes to be good.
@lewisjones47377 ай бұрын
It's nothing to do with Christianity he just realises being a good person is worthwhile
@TheMaxer032 жыл бұрын
Loved that! And loved your book, The Great Good Thing. Merry Christmas Mr. Klavan.
@RedWhiteAndBlue4evr12 жыл бұрын
And they're both fictional stories
@christiandpaul6314 ай бұрын
The story reflects the reality of that time. Workhouses were a real thing a tremendous move about that time is 'the man who invented Christmas. '. The biography of Charles Dickens
@robinhuff18672 жыл бұрын
Spiritual red pilling
@matrix729618 ай бұрын
Yes, Tim lives due to his change
@bluebellea37 ай бұрын
This has nothing to do with any religious beliefs. This has to do with someone finally seeing just how much of a degenerate he had become, how damaging he has been to others around him and then finding his conscience to finally start doing right for those others he had neglected.
@brooklynpalmer39692 жыл бұрын
Ok but Scrooge still needs to make things right!!! That doesn't mean that just cause your a Christian and God forgave you doesn't mean your off the hook. You still gotta make amends.
@barryroode64092 жыл бұрын
Lol...like Christians are good people? 🤣😂 They spend their lives judging others. Think of the harm missionaries have done and continue to do!
@robinharwood50448 ай бұрын
A tragic tale of a decent man driven to insanity by ghosts.
@nemui96542 жыл бұрын
Debtor’s prison… that sounds like something the government will be bringing back soon.
@joeverna54592 жыл бұрын
Yes, and Trump will be at the front of the line. Lol
@ozziecrosby20922 жыл бұрын
@@joeverna5459 ... For what? President Trump is the most investigated man on the planet. Squeaky clean
@joeverna54592 жыл бұрын
@@ozziecrosby2092 lol
@nemui96542 жыл бұрын
@@joeverna5459 I was meaning for all the people with student loans who don’t want to pay them back.
@jrowlet Жыл бұрын
@@joeverna5459 Actually, Scrooge was a socialist at the beginning. He said that the collectors for the poor should direct the poor to the poor houses provided by public taxes that he and other taxpayers pay. When they reaponded, that they would rather die than go there, Scrooge responded that perhaps they should die and decrease the surplus population. A leftist would tell someone to go to the government for help instead of helping someone directly with private charity, and many leftists share the belief of Thomas Malthus that we have too many people, which you can see exemplified in wealthy leftist elites such as the ones at the World Economic Forum (I find it interesting that leftists support abortion, euthanasia, allowing sterilization of kids who want to transition, and one-child policies in leftist countries like China). Before his tranformation, Scrooge also rejected celebrations of any kind, including Christnas (which fits in with the desire of leftists to take awat celebrations of most holidays including Christmas in favor of a perfectly secular leftist society). In his transformation, Scrooge comes to realize that it is his individual responsibility to help others directly instead of projecting that responsibility to public institutions that are largely ineffective at in actually helping people. In the process, Scrooge actually transforms from a liberal to a conservative, which is the opposite of the argument that I have heard you and others make. By the way, you can see my argument bore out in the data: surveys show that conservatives donate more to private charity than liberals, red states donate at higher rates to private charity than blue states, and some of our least charitable politicians are on the left (I remember reading a stat that said something to the effect that Joe Biden donated less than $600 of his multi-million-dollar fortune in his last 10 years before becoming President, which iw a joke esepcially since so many people argued that Biden is a unifying empathetic figure).
@gregsonger72212 жыл бұрын
Hopefully Scrooges new attitude causes him to stop creating harm and misery. This alone is an improvement in the world. Can't undo the past but can improve the future.
@user-bk9lm5id1s6 ай бұрын
He doesn't see it through Christian eyes he sees as a Humanitarian does as Marley told him .mankind was Mr Business.
@71259mark8 ай бұрын
Has anyone realized that Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley, money, changers, have two very Jewish names? This isn’t about accepting Christmas. This is about accepting Christianity. It’s well known that Charles Dickens was anti-Semitic. The publisher made him redo. Oliver twist because of his anti-Semitic portrayal of Fagan. It makes sense when you think about it.
@Yamajti2 жыл бұрын
If only Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong would've been changed by the christian Christmas spirit, their past descretions could've also been disregarded too.
@christiandpaul6314 ай бұрын
A great movie is the man who invented Christmas it is the biography of Charles Dickens
@Neethan32478 ай бұрын
Highly preferred the George C. Scott version.
@brucedavis38168 ай бұрын
Who did he hurt???? If someone owes you money and doesnt pay thats their fault not yours???? His girlfriend initiated the breakup accusing him of loving only money while in his eyes he was trying to be a provider. Bob Craichet is able to support a housewife and five kids on Scrooges salary!!! And besides why have kids you cant support???? Dont blame scrooge for that!!!!
@judithsixkiller55862 жыл бұрын
He also changed not only the way that he sees his fellow man as human beings. Not as mere pluses or minuses on a cash or social status value ledger. He fundamentally change's how he TREAT'S THEM.
@cookingwiththecripple2 жыл бұрын
I always got it's never too late for redemption not "oh you dun goofed... oh well" he redeems himself
@mtelectrical80688 ай бұрын
It doesn’t have to be a Christian perspective.. he’s just changed as a person.
@adrianpoesiat8 ай бұрын
Best and only version for me. Alistair Sim, the ensemble cast Rocks👍
@Verge638 ай бұрын
Jacob Marley never escaped purgatory.
@debbiethomas26228 ай бұрын
Yes, scrooge changes. And in order to start effect change in things he CAN somewhat change, it has to start with yourself. "Help me change the things I CAN change, ACCEPT the things i CAN'T change, and help me to learn the difference!" Can't change the whole world but maybe a piece of it, and make a difference in at least 1 life!
@williamdogan11497 ай бұрын
1938 MGM with Owen captures the tone and mood of Dickens. 1951 Sim is a great Scrooge, but the film is so bleak and stark!!
@MrMatthewcropley7 ай бұрын
absolutely love the movie, watch it every year.
@douglascox99962 жыл бұрын
What the story does not cover, but is part of the personal Christian transformation, is the attempt to undo the evil and harm that person has done. It is not always possible, of course, since death has often intervened and closed the book, but the effort must be made.
@delljohnson75852 жыл бұрын
Scrooge didn't become a Christian he did find know that it felt good to help people
@rogerkelley8882 Жыл бұрын
Yes. Christmas would. Change his life
@debbiep93388 ай бұрын
My favorite Christmas movie of all time my tradition is to watch it every Christmas Eve
@Nunya_Bidness_538 ай бұрын
One assumes he makes amends for what he can, as he did with Cratchit and Fred.
@geronimosrifle29132 жыл бұрын
As a christian, you most certainly are punished for your sins but not like you think. The worst thing of all for a lover of God and his living word, is to be separated from him, which every time we sin we are seperated. When you become a christian, we feel that horrible sting of being separated from the father. everytime we hurt someone, deny forgiveness to those who deserve it, etc, etc, we get further and further away until one day, we are so far gone, we are too tired to make the journey back to him and soon 'die'. But the good news is, through baptism we have grace to come back if we really love God, we make the harrowing journey back and he is always there to recieve us. The punishment we recieveis the constant thought that since we are not perfect, we will most likely be separated again and again in the near future. The worst feeling is the loss of the life cord to the father and the Harding of our own heart that soon causes us to forget how to love, remember the little things that make the smallest things huge. Oh !! by the way, Scrooge does change his ways and tries his best to correct his wrong doings👍👍😁
@rubenovalle21792 жыл бұрын
Our presiding president he's Scrooge helper congratulations.
@billtuqoise13432 жыл бұрын
Charles Dickens himself said, "All my strongest illustrations are derived from the New Testament...". Dickens was a man of deep Christian faith so how can Scrooge's conversion not be rooted in a Christian perspective? Study the author to better understand his writings.
@gunner6787 ай бұрын
SBO Statement of the blindingly obvious
@markfisher22018 ай бұрын
Christians need to claim Scrooge as Christianity is dying. There is nothing to suggest that Scrooge is a bonafide christian in the original novel.
@rayvargas93837 ай бұрын
OMG i thought only my wife would make a comment like that at the end of a movie. Its a story you have no idea what he would have undone.
@Navesblue16 күн бұрын
He can absolutely make the poor rich(er at least) by sharing his wealth with them. Ya know, the Christian virtue of charity?
@druu9882 жыл бұрын
I agree Scrooge is still a piece of junk regardless if he’s changed his attitude but the consequences and repercussions are already put in place for what happens next
@goldilocks9137 ай бұрын
Spoken like an accountant- not unlike Scrooge before his change 🙄
@gregcox60662 жыл бұрын
GOD does chastised when you return to him, and when you find him his hand is not lacks
@lisab95418 ай бұрын
But he stops harming goung forth. He now can help.