"'No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.'" Luke 16:13 (NRSV)
This makes rich Christians a contradiction.
Many Christians who are wealthy think that they are being true to the Gospel but they are not.
The Gospel is "good news for the poor". (Luke 4:18)
And Jesus speaks repeatedly about the evils of wealth.
Bur conservative Christians impose the religion of "Cheap Grace" which obeys some aspects of the Gospel but ignores any requirement to give up their wealth.
And they usurp the power of God for themselves so that they not only have all the wealth but they have all the power as well.
They then manipulate and control the masses through rewards and punishments, intimidation and threats.
Jesus says of them: "'They will receive the greater condemnation.'" Mark 12:40 (NRSV)
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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