This is true. The richest people tend to hoard it. The trend is for the richest people to accumulate more and more money and for everyone else to have less and less.
Poverty Facts and Stats
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Do the teachings of Jesus promote poverty?
- Thread starter savagewind
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This is true. The richest people tend to hoard it. The trend is for the richest people to accumulate more and more money and for everyone else to have less and less.
Poverty Facts and Stats
Poverty means to struggle for life's necessities. Does anyone really think Jesus Christ promoted a life of material struggle? A person should have enough so that she need not worry about getting enough. If a person has enough it can't be said of that person that she is living in poverty. Of course if a person lives on the line of enough and poverty it is easy to slip unter the line and have to worry about eating and living.
outhouse
Atheistically
Exactly! Your catching on
Give us this day our daily bread, is a prayer that their hunger will be answered with a piece of bread.
These people in Galilee were starving, mortality rates were ridiculously high.
ALL children's bones found in even rich areas of Galilee all show malnutrition. We see Harris lines on all bones found from this time period.
People in Nazareth had nothing to loose but their lives, they definitely had nothing to give.
To focus on money management, whether by a rich man or a poor man, a rich organization or a poor one, is to take focus off The Spirit and to put it on the money.
CMike
Well-Known Member
That incorrectly assumes that there is only one pie.
However, when there is a growing economy the pie grows larger as well.
And there is no such thing as hoarding your own money. You created it. It belongs to you.
What do you think the definition of hoard is?
CMike
Well-Known Member
None of the definitons work in this case.
Hoarding | Define Hoarding at Dictionary.com
noun
1.a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefullyguarded for preservation, future use, etc.:a vast hoard of silver.
verb (used with object)
2.to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., ina hidden or carefully guarded place:to hoard food during a shortage.
verb (used without object)
3.to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hiddenor carefully guarded place for preservation, futureuse, etc.
Sapiens
Polymathematician
You might have stolen it? But even if you didn't you sure as hell did not create it.
CMike
Well-Known Member
You certainly can. It's called economic growth.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Good point!
I'd go a step further: I think that these passages about wealth suggest that Christians should be poor enough that they're reliant on God.
Should be? I don't think Jesus ever said anyone "should be" anything. I believe there are very rich people who do not rely on their money but on their faith. But money is a dangerous thing. With it it is too easy to start depending on it and not on God. I am sure it can happen to a person without them even knowing.
I depend on God for wisdom. Money can't give anyone that.
roger1440
I do stuff
It actually demonstrates abundance. Wealth isnt measured by what we have in our pocket. Its measured by what we have in our heart.
CMike
Well-Known Member
Many people create wealth due to their skill and drive.
No I am not totally anti-tax.
The government has certainly been getting into stuff that the founding fathers never dreamed of.
CMike
Well-Known Member
And who will help the poor if everyone is poor?
outhouse
Atheistically
Factually wrong when your starving and hungry
God, presumably. Jesus called people who worried about where their next meal was coming from "ye of little faith."
thank you...I didn't remember the exact passage