It is easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man can go to heaven

[Stargazer99]

What part don't you wealthy understand? Oh I forgot you can buy your way into heaven (laugh here)
You may confuse the average person but you are not going to play with God. Trump wonders if he will get to heaven...there is your answer and that holds for the rest of the wealthy

[Ocelot II]

1. It's not so much the money itself; it's how you got it and what you do with it.

[Stargazer99]

2. Yes money has a tendancy to destroy morality

[betsuni]

9. Like recent pathetic attempts to demonize Taylor Swift because BILLIONAIRE!!!

[multigraincracker]

3. Jesus said "if you wish to follow me, sell

everything you own and give the money to the poor”.

[Igel]

11. But wasn't his final judgment.

Which, per the sources, would be yet to come in any event.

The narrative continues,

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Notice the word "perfect." If all of us must be "perfect," you know, I haven't sold everything and taken a vow of poverty. Unless you're using a public computer in a library because you own neither phone nor computer, neither have you. As for "loving my brother as myself", I have enough trouble with "thou shalt not murder", if merely cursing somebody counts as murder.

(My takeaway: it's the love of possessions that gets in the way; and just as Israel would "wax fat and forget God" so it is with people--that whole 'love of money" where "love of" is often omitted and the quote is mangled to 'money is [the] root of all sin'. Except that love of a person, of a country, of an idea, of some possessions can just as easily do the trick as money. Bathsheba wasn't 'money', now was she?)

As for the final bit, "But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first," I've always taken that not as "to gehenna with you!" but just as not being at the top of the hierarchy that Jesus metaphorically sets up--apostles judging the 12 tribes of Israel--but falling among the "least in the kingdom of God' category.

[ZDU]

4. Smite it...

... during a live performance. (Oh please, oh please!)

p.s. Many people say they were the best and biggest cameras, many, many cameras of the finest quality recording when the SMITE happened. It will not be forgotten.

[sop]

5. The bible actually says the love of money is a root of evil, not that money itself is evil.

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." - Biblical verse 1, Timothy 6:10

[Stargazer99]

6. When you have hurt the least of these you have offended God

[Blues Heron]

7. Jesus specifically said rich people

[walkingman]

8. I think it is called the "Prosperity Gospel" a version of Christianity that is acceptable to

people like Trump and those that use religion as a tool, not a philosophy. There is no room to debate the issue with Religious folks. "If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people"

[kimbutgar]

10. Satan already has a place reserved for him in hell !

God will put up a big wall with windmills behind it to keep him out from smelling the place up also!

[hurl]

12. Republicans have proposed lucrative tax incentives

to subsidize the manufacture of needles with large, easily navigable eyes in response to the troubling verse, officials confirmed.

/s

[Happy Hoosier]

13. I don't need fear of divine retribution...

… to give a shit about my fellow humans.