[quote=@DarkwolfX37] Oh these are apologists talking about it. I thought they were specific passages or something. 1. "Wicked, lazy servant" doesn't really mean that they're in the same category. "You heartless, pale man" doesn't put pale in the same category as heartless, for example. Also I like how it claims non-christians are all horribly lazy. 2. We also have a sense to be lazy, so a sense of purpose doesn't mean much. "Lazy people only care about themselves" is a baseless claim. This guy's personal experience that he learned from his mom has nothing to do with his religion. That should've been ommitted, and that it wasn't is a hit to his credibility as someone who can give biblical advice. Uhm... Telling people to be like ants is terrible advice and very much a control mechanism. I mean, it wasn't at the time since people didn't know much about them, but modern time we know that they will literally work themselves to death, continue working while infected with a mind-controlling fungus, and don't have autonomy. That's antithetical to "personal responsibility." 3. Strong personal disagreements aside, this has nothing to do with inherent tendencies. That only applies to "willing laziness" ie "I don't want to do that therefor I won't," which isn't the same as chronic laziness. [/quote] Refusing to argue with the first and second, since I'd really rather not: a sin you "can't help" is still a sin, and there's no excuse other than ignorance. Chronic laziness is still wrong, because God warns against laziness. But God helps us to fight against inherent tendencies in the very same way he helps us to fight against willing sin, because sin itself is an inherent tendency. Sin itself is chronic. That's why I sent those devotions: because they provided biblical advice about fighting the sin of laziness that was worth praying about and taking to heart.