This highly circulated dogma that poverty is prerequisite for spirituality is a misunderstanding of the bible. I have spiritual friends who have dignified lives with money. And the are poor people who are horrible.This is serious.
I am an avid student of the bible. It doesn’t promote the lie that money takes people to hell(the grave by the way).
There are rich men and women in the bible who are shown to be spiritual. Noah, Abraham, Job, Isaac, Joseph, Lydia, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus etc. The bible even says money is a protection.
It is similar to lots of pretenders claiming the bible condemns alcohol when it is actually not the case. Jesus turns water to wine. He consumes wine with his friends. Paul advises Timothy to drink wine for his stomach problems. Somewhere it says wine makes a man’s heart glad. But it does condemn alcoholism, and we largely agree alcoholism is dangerous.
With regard to money, many preachers have misunderstood the message of the bible or deliberately decided to twist for their own objectives. Printing and distribution of copies of the bible needs a lot of money.
The bible does not fault money, it faults people who interact with money poorly.
This belief is even seen in the way its proponents bring it in bible texts during translation. They make certain alterations to make look as though the bible were saying wealth is sin.
The Bible encourages hardwork and skillfulness. The Bible states that those with wealth make a good contribution to service of God. The temple of Solomon needed many millions of dollars to build. The apostles got support of wealthy people in their ministry and they never condemned those wealthy people.
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