Are You Stuck In The Eye Of The Needle About Money?

On the matter of Jesus and money, there are three types of people in the world.

1. People who either don't know or care what Jesus said about money.

2. People who care so much that they make the words of Jesus about money the standard of their financial lives.

3. Then there are the people who have the words of Jesus about money in their minds, but wish they didn't.

I overheard the third type of person at a seminar about money and wealth. He was asking the speaker a question as I was returning to my seat after a break. He said: "Jesus taught that a rich man can't get into Heaven. How can you say that is it good to be rich?"

This one comment about a rich man and the Kingdom of Heaven is probably the single most misunderstood verse about money among all of the words of Jesus. And it is my candidate for the Bible verse most likely to produce people who are afraid of becoming rich out of fear for their own salvation.

By identifying the "Kingdom of Heaven" with "Heaven," the questioner misquoted the story. He had missed the point that Jesus was making. All three biblical versions of the story agree that Jesus was speaking about a rich man and the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God, not about Heaven.

The essential point is that the Kingdom of Heaven is equivalent to Heaven. When Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven, he was not referring to an afterlife. The phrase Kingdom of Heaven concerns life on Earth.

What is the best way to liberate people from such misunderstanding? The only way is to put the words of Jesus into context. What did the words mean in the context of the story? And what did the story mean in the context of the economic system?

If you don't put these words into context, you can spend a lifetime feeling guilty about wanting to have money. This seemed to be what happened to the man at the seminar. The first reason for his inner conflict was that he didn't even have the words right. He was stuck in the "Eye of the Needle" about money because he had missed the real point of the story.

Jesus told the story as part of his condemnation of an unjust economic system. He was not glorifying poverty. He did not say that the rich cannot get into Heaven.

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