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Originally posted by Jafin:
You have an interesting question/idea/whatever here. Jesus never taught that you can't have personal wealth. He taught that whatever you do, you should follow God's will for your life. I am a Christian, I have been all my life and I will for the rest of my life, nobody can shake me from that. I am also an advocate of capitalism. That doesn't mean that I worship capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system, not a religion (well to some it is  ). There is nothing in the Bible that forbades monetary wealth, so long as it doesn't rise in importance above God. Daniel in the Old Testament was a wealthy man, but he was a man of God. There are many men of God alive today who have monetary and materialistic wealth. Nothing is forbidding me from it. Personally, I pray to God that he'll aid in my gaining of wealth so I can live a comfortable, maybe luxurious life. However, I just gotta keep God first.
-Jafin
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He did say, however, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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