5/13/2023 0 Comments Lazarus long time enough for love![]() But it is just wrong to say that Jesus criticizes the bare fact of having wealth. Certainly, rich people should do everything that they reasonably can to help poor people. What is important is how you use the wealth that you have. It is the love of money, not the money itself, that is the root of all evil. Some rich people are very moral, and some poor people are immoral in every way that one can be immoral, so it is just wrong to say that wealth, in and of itself, is a bad thing. Jesus could not possibly have been saying that it is inherently immoral to be rich. ![]() Whatever Jesus meant by these things, there is a general agreement that there are two things he could not possibly have meant because they are just too hard to fit into our current understanding of the New Testament: If I had a dollar for every time I have had these discussions in a church context, I would be rich enough to have to worry about it. ![]() Sell all you have and give it to the poor? He was using hyperbole to prove a point. ![]() The camel through the eye of the needle? That was just the back gate to Jerusalem. It seems that the richer Christians get, the more interpretive energy they put into proving that Jesus didn’t really mean what he said about rich people. ![]()
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