There is terrible inequality on Earth. The rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting ignored.
Who will enter the Kingdom of God? It is those who are poor, not those who are rich.
How can someone who amasses wealth claim to be a Christian?
”And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. (Mark 10:17-22 ESV)
It is impossible for someone who is greedy to enter the Kingdom of God.
When you pray, ask God what you should do with your wealth, to whom you should distribute it, and He will guide you.
Even if you have to leave everything you have and move to another country, you must do so. It is worth it to have a place in the Kingdom.
Perfect Chaos 
2 responses to “Seek poverty, not wealth”
I concur with you on this. To be fair, many claimed Christians are wealthy, and some even are wealthy off the discourse and calamity of others. Those who have will have more. The poor will be with you always. A couple verses quoting Jesus show that there will always be those with wealth and those that are poor. Remembering that it is the poor of spirit that see God, and the meek that shall inherit the earth, one should then see that there is balance within his plan.
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So true brother, I love what you wrote. There is a duality to God’s creation: good and evil, the righteous and the wicked, heaven and hell. It’s interesting that Jesus spoke about generations, and I’m wondering whether when this evil generation passes away, a righteous generation will rise up.
The ebb and flow of existence. It’s beautiful. Light and dark, up and down, left and right, war and peace, Jesus and the Devil.
Of course, dualism is one kind of perspective, but there are others. You could, for example, look at reality like a never-ending ocean in which there are infinite possibilities in every moment. God always has total freedom to do whatever He will.
So I suppose it all depends on whether paradise and hell truly are the final destinations for human beings and whether or not there is a single religious perspective that reflects ultimate truth. Interestingly, the Biblical and Qur’anic perspectives disagree fundamentally on the Jesus divinity issue, while also having much in common, for example, paradise and hell, the importance of charity and prayer, the Patriarchs, etc.
Do you believe in the idea of progressive revelation, brother? It makes a lot of sense to me. It would mean that a further revelation would be necessary to make sense of those areas of theology where Christianity and Islam disagree.
This further revelation came down and is called The Book of Mercy, however we rescinded it because even after months of promoting it, no one was interested in it.
So it remains to be seen what my Father in Heaven will do next.
Keep praying for mercy for everyone, brother.
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