2006-12-03 19:09:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It means that you can't serve God and try to earn the approval of the world. Mammon means riches.
2006-12-03 19:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by Ethan M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This verse is Matthew 6:24:No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
It means that a person cannot serve both God and worldly goods (mammon). One will always be more important to him/her than the other. By placing worldly possessions (ie-money) above God, a person would be committing idolatry. In order to truly love God, the love of the things of this world has to be put away.
2006-12-04 03:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by Luv_Lght01 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:23-25 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter)
Luke 16:9
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Luke 16:8-10 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter)
Luke 16:11
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luke 16:10-12 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter)
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:12-14 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter)
'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' Riches, that is; for in the heathen tongue of the Syrians riches are called Mammon." But Mammon was commonly regarded as a deity in the Middle Ages; thus Peter Lombard (II, dist. 6) says, "Riches are called by the name of a devil, namely Mammon, for Mammon is the name of a devil, by which name riches are called according to the Syrian tongue." Piers Plowman also regards Mammon as a deity.
2006-12-04 03:20:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mammon means "riches",It means you can't serve God and material things at the same time.
2006-12-04 03:16:13 · answer #4 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means you cannot have another 1st priority other than God. God has 2 b 1st and everything else must follow. it's difficult but in the end the reward will b much bigger than the mammon on earth!
2006-12-04 03:20:43 · answer #5 · answered by allemapstieks 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mammon is a euphemism for material things. You can read the passage as "you cannot worship both God and the dollar."
2006-12-04 03:18:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that you cannot be a slave to both--you must choose either God's will or mans. You must choose who to believe and who to please and who to give your time to serving. That is what the mark of the beast is all about. It is the number 6 because man was created on the 6th day. It is used 3 times for emphasis just as holy, holy, holy is used to describe God's holiness. It is on the forehead because we show God who we trust and believe in by the way we think and it is on the hand because we show who we serve by the things we do.
2006-12-04 04:21:01 · answer #7 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answering this question honestly would only repeat what all before me have said. Read the verses from Matthew. All of the verses when read together give a good understanding of what that one phrase means!
2006-12-04 04:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
money/ God and Money
2006-12-04 03:13:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋