Godlike said:
This reads completely wrong: you think JC gave a damn about wealth truly? :areyoucra
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"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." [/FONT]- Matthew 6:24 KJV
"Mammon is a word used in the Bible to describe riches, avarice, and worldly gain. It is personified as a false god in the New Testament. Often, mammon is regarded as material wealth and thought to have an evil influence." -Wikipedia
The word in greek is mammonas {mam-mo-nas'} and has several uses, which the wikipedia definition is plausable.
From Strong's Concordance:
1) mammon
2) treasure
3) riches (where it is personified and opposed to God)
In Luke 16:14, after Jesus says that you are unable to serve both God and mammon:
"And being lovers of money, the Pharisees also heard all these things; and they derided Him. And He said to them, You are those justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is a hateful thing before God."
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I think JC made his feelings about money very clear. And no, I never said that Jesus cared about money. I made my point clear that what mattered were the attachments. Wealth itself was not his main concern. A person can be rich but unattached to material things, such an example is the allegory of Job. God had remained first no matter how much Job gained or lost. [/FONT]
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[/FONT]"Do not treasure up for you treasures on the earth, where moth and rust cause to vanish, and where thieves dig through and steal. But treasure up for you treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust cause to vanish, and where theives do not dig through and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:19 Interlinear Bible
"Jesus said, The world is a bridge; cross this bridge but do not build upon it."
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Matthew 13:22
"The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful"
Mark: 4:19
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"but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Quotes by Paul or other apostles:
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1 Timothy 6:10:
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs"
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Hebrews 13:5:
"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you"[/FONT]
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