Would You Sell Your Soul on eBay?
People sell some crazy things on eBay, don’t they?
Not too long ago a woman from California listed an old baseball card for sale on eBay. The first bid was for $10. When she started getting lots of email requesting more information about the card, she suspected she’d stumbled on something more valuable and quickly ended the sale. Smart lady. What she had found was actually a card made in 1869. The card featured “The Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati.” This club was baseball’s first professional team. It’s thought to be one of the first baseball cards ever produced, and its value could be more than $100,000.
While a baseball card isn’t that unusual of an item to auction off, some of the items people have sold on eBay are pretty silly. Some man sold space on his forehead for advertising, which brought a little over $37,000. A woman sold her dead father’s walking cane, his ghost included, for about $65,000. And then there was the famous grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly looked like the Virgin Mary that sold for almost $30,000.
The truth is, you can sell just about anything on eBay, but you can’t sell your own soul — at least not anymore. A while back, one man’s soul was up for sale and a woman from Iowa had bid $400 before eBay realized what was going on and stopped the auction. While you can no longer sell your soul on eBay — it’s in violation of their policy and you can’t sell body parts either — you can use the Internet to sell your soul to someone willing to buy it. A 24 year old sold his for $3,800 to a New Zealand pizza place appropriately named after the place of torment.
Priceless
Remember the commercial that shows what I refer to as a Kodak moment in life and then says “priceless”? That’s the way we should feel about our soul.
Jesus warns, “What good will it be for you to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul? Or what can you give in exchange for your soul?” (Matthew 16:26).
I might clean out a closet and list some things on eBay or craigslist, but my soul belongs to Jesus.
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How exactly would one collect on your soul? The price of that baseball card is great! Thanks for stopping by the Sit and Relax weekend hop!! Have a great weekend
Yah, something about that is downright creepy. I would never do that and I don’t think someone else should
NOW….
Hearing about those other sales, does make me wonder whether I should sell some other stuff on ebay.
I know how the devil supposedly collects souls but how would you deliver it to, say, a furrier in Omaha?