• Daydreamer@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I agree, but I think making it to sound like Jesus says rich people can’t be saved is a misinterpretation. It seems to me he says it’s hard for rich people to truly follow him and his teaching, and that only God can save people.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      7 months ago

      The problem is, if after hearing the teaching you are still rich then you haven’t understood the teaching or really accepted the message - because you are still attached to your worldly possessions.

      It’s not that “rich people can’t be saved”… it’s that being rich and following Jesus are fundamentally incompatible. You can’t be rich and “truly follow him”, as you put it.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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        7 months ago

        Precisely.

        The easiest thought experiment here is asking “But how do you get rich?

        Well, it’s certainly not by putting others first and being fair and equitable in all your dealings. That’s against the “game” (oh sorry, “best practices”) of business.

        A ton of capitalist co-opting of Christianity makes all kinds of excuses for why a Godly person could work 1,000,000x harder than everyone else and be “blessed” with the burdens of wealth, but it’s all propaganda.

        Inheritance maybe? Okay, the question still becomes: What did you do with your resources?

        Being honest with these questions makes the truth rather apparent, in my humble opinion.

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      7 months ago

      “Hard” as in “impossible”. It’s literally right there in the text. Have you seen a camel fit in the eye of a needle before?

      • Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Context is important. Literally the next couple verses in both passages say something along the lines of "The disciples asked, ‘Then who can be saved?’ Jesus said, ‘With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.’ "