Last week's cover story for Time magazine was Does God Want You to be Rich? Interestingly enough, I am working on the Financial Stewardship piece of my church's 100 Days to Wholeness campaign. So, this article was very timely for me.
The article investigates the church's perspective on personal wealth, and it compares/contrasts the views of the "megachurches" vs. "traditional" preachers.
Does God want you to be rich?
If not, does God want you to be poor?
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The topic actually made me laugh out aloud.
Got my instant interest..(smile)
Personally, I dont buy the thought that saints should be poor. I used to, but not anymore..
The word of God says that my father is RICH in HOUSES and LAND..
so I beleive that if I am my fathers child, then yes, I am to have every bit of these houses and land....
Hello lrubin39 and all,
Be aware that what I say is intended to make people uncomfortable with the status quo so we can finally forge that long promised new path to the future.
RE: "Does God want you to be rich?"
How about, does the Creator want some people to suffer and starve while some wallow in luxury and ignore the plight of others? What about "serving mammon" (money and materialism) instead of truth, justice, and your fellow souls? How about the rich man and the eye of a needle? Talking about the blind leading the blind...
To take this a step further, what would the Creator say about forming organizations (corporations, religions, governments, political parties, etc.) that accumulate vast wealth and resources while living people and other lifeforms suffer as the direct result? What does this say about the complete hypocrisy of all religions?
Here's some pivotal knowledge (wisdom) so people can stop focusing on symptoms and obfuscatory details and home in like a laser on the root causes of and solutions to humanity's seemingly never-ending struggles.
Money is the lifeblood of the powerful and the chains and key to human enslavement
There is a radical and highly effective solution to all of our economic problems that will dramatically simplify, streamline, and revitalize human civilization. It will eliminate all poverty, debt, and the vast majority of crime, material inequality, deception, and injustice. It will also eliminate the underlying causes of most conflicts, while preventing evil scoundrels and their cabals from deceiving, deluding, and bedeviling humanity, ever again. It will likewise eliminate the primary barriers to solving global warming, pollution, and the many evils that result from corporate greed and their control of natural and societal resources. That solution is to simply eliminate money from the human equation, thereby replacing the current system of greed, exploitation, and institutionalized coercion with freewill cooperation, just laws based on verifiable wisdom, and societal goals targeted at benefiting all, not just a self-chosen and abominably greedy few.
We can now thank millennia of political, monetary, and religious leaders for proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that top-down, hierarchical governance is absolute folly and foolishness. Even representative democracy, that great promise of the past, was easily and readily subverted to enslave us all, thanks to money and those that secretly control and deceptively manipulate all currencies and economies. Is there any doubt anymore that entrusting politics and money to solve humanity's problems is delusion of the highest order? Is there any doubt that permitting political and corporate leaders to control the lives of billions has resulted in great evil?
Here's a real hot potato! Eat it up, digest it, and then feed it's bones to the hungry...
Most people have no idea that the common-denominator math of all the world's currencies forms an endless loop that generates debt faster than we can ever generate the value to pay for it. This obscured and purposeful math-logic trap at the center of all banking, currencies, and economies is the root cause of poverty. Those who rule this world through fear and deception strive constantly to hide this fact, while pretending to seek solutions to poverty and human struggle. Any who would scoff at this analysis have simply failed to do the math, even though it is based on a simple common-denominator ratio.
Here is Wisdom
Wow! There will probably beno end to this discussion, just as Jesus said, "...the poor ye have with you always..." The Bible always should be read, keeping in mind the culture in which it was written. God has given us power to choose. Part of that is the power to be rich, middle class, poor, significant, insignificant, etc., etc., etc.
I believe the primary will of God is that all men be saved and come into a knowledge of the truth...to know the only true and living God and His Son Chrst Jesus. Beyond this is all else is peripheral. My prayer is that each would establish a real relationship with the Father and Son, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide you through the rest.
Does God want us rich? That is very relative. Make a choice. Put God first and He will support which ever choice you make. Try not to be moved by what others choose. Your life is your responsibility. You will reap what you sow.
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