Are they "chosen" to have more options open to them?
2007-01-29 10:02:34 · 24 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If the rich have a harder time communing with God, how do you explain the Pope? That's a silly notion at best.
2007-01-29 10:09:23 · update #1
this is a very good point. And you would think that if God was in charge of this, that only the best, most moral and giving people would be chosen to be born into wealth, but that's clearly not the case.
It reminds me of how people used to say that royalty were ordained by God. Of course, hardly anyone believes that anymore, but it's a good point. Why would God make someone like Elizaeth Bathory, a noble woman who was known for subjecting people to sadistic deaths for her own amusement? Why choose that person to be born into that position of power?
2007-01-29 10:09:51 · answer #1 · answered by M L 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The rich and the poor have the same opportunity to get right with God. But the rich have a harder time because some love money more than God.
2007-01-29 18:07:23 · answer #2 · answered by handsomeworshipper 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The poor have a better chance of getting into Heaven. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to Heaven. But with God all things are possible
2007-01-29 18:09:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the rich do not have more free will. Free will is the same for everyone.
The rich are given greater barriers between themselves and God, more opportunities to waste their lives and more distractions from the true purpose of existence. Physical riches are not necessarily a blessing.
If you go to many third world countries, you'll find that people there are much more in touch with their spiritual nature and more concerned with God.
2007-01-29 18:07:10 · answer #4 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Any money there belongs to the Church......not the pope
What did Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, state about the Bible? In his "Commentary On St. John," he stated the following: "We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of God, that we have received It from them, and that without them we should have no knowledge of It at all." Regardless of what non-Catholic Christians may think or say, according to secular, objective historians, the Catholic Church alone preserved Sacred Scripture throughout the persecution of the Roman Empire and during the Dark Ages. All non-Catholic Christian denominations owe the existence of the Bible to the Catholic Church alone. Why did God choose the Catholic Church to preserve Scripture if It is not His Church
2007-01-29 19:05:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
god said its hard for a rich man to get into heaven.
I don't think its more 'free will'. you can't measure free will. its more how society enpowers people. in most societies money leads to more options and mroe power- which is connected to corruption and that's against god.
but in societies like the Native Americans where it wasn't how much corn you had, how many animal skins you owned, or other forms of wealth the 'rich' didn't nessacarily prosper as much. in those societies it was more about being brave, being kind, being older (very big on seniority) ect.
so its not about god, its about society
2007-01-29 18:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What????? I think the Bible actually gives more to the poor. Jesus says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. I don't get where you're coming from.
2007-01-29 18:06:41 · answer #7 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. All human beings are equally endowed with the retional sense to make choice. The poor seem to have less free will because they refuse or they have no chance to use their rational sense. We need the universal education to bring this knowledge to all people.
In fact, the poor will become rich, the rich will become poor, and incessantly vice versa.
2007-01-29 18:11:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is God's will to make one person very rich and the other very poor but the poor will be better off on the day of judgment, while the rich one will have to give account on how he spent his riches were they any use to the mankind
2007-01-29 18:08:40 · answer #9 · answered by akband 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How did you make that leap?
What are the "options" that the rich have? To go to college? That isn't a choice. We are talking MORAL choices / options... Everyone has the same.
If anything, the rich have it worse from the perspective of Moral choices.... So I guess everything is a trade off.
2007-01-29 18:07:49 · answer #10 · answered by TK421 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋