2007-04-03 10:42:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
SInce many people think of the here and now, that person would think they were on top of the world
2007-04-03 10:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask yourself that question. Do you ever wonder why people who win the lottery for millions upon millions are dollars are never happy? It's because their soul is not happy. A person could become ruler of the entire would and have to sell his soul t the devil to gain it and if a man has no soul how can he enjoy the things which he has obtained?
2007-04-03 17:47:41 · answer #2 · answered by citizenparticular 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would profit him nothing, in fact that is the whole point that Jesus was trying to make with that statement. Such an individual would find life empty, and could not see God because his soul was not. That man would literally thereby become a "whited sepulchre filled with dead men's bones".
2007-04-03 17:48:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Luke 12:16-21 says:Â With that he spoke an illustration to them, saying: “The land of a certain rich man produced well. Consequently he began reasoning within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, now that I have nowhere to gather my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my storehouses and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and all my good things; Â and I will say to my soul: “Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, enjoy yourself.”’Â But God said to him, ‘Unreasonable one, this night they are demanding your soul from you. Who, then, is to have the things you stored up?’ So it goes with the man that lays up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
The rich man in it was not satisfied with his adequate material things. He continued to concentrate on his business so as to increase his wealth. Jesus was not specifying how the rich man would die. The point was that by some means the man was going to lose his soul, or life, that night. But how did he stand with God? Any of us could become absorbed in improving our material situation and similarly miss out on being rich toward God. The business world fosters a spirit of ‘ever more.’ Even people whose companies make substantial profits from sales in the millions of dollars, pounds, marks, and so forth, may be tempted to seek more—more employees, more sales, more profits, more luxuries, more in the bank. Jesus’ question is as valid today as when he first posed it: “Who, then, is to have the things you stored up?
2007-04-03 17:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by babydoll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no profit worth losing ones soul over. Worldly possessions will not follow into the afterlife, regardless of where it is.
2007-04-03 17:50:24 · answer #5 · answered by ty4all 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No soul to lose,no magic in the sky either.Have fun ,you die and decay and your kids spend all the money you saved for a rainy day.
2007-04-03 17:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define soul.
2007-04-03 17:46:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would become like Lot's wife, and become a statue of salt, because he would have lost eternity.
2007-04-03 17:48:25 · answer #8 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart,that they should not see with their eyes,nor understand with their hearts and be converted,and I should heal them.
That is what has happened because God has done so many miracles,yet they believe him not.
2007-04-03 17:59:00 · answer #9 · answered by siaosi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means that , if u have lots of money ,success in work ,have many friends , etc.... ,it means nothing if u dont do what God told us to do ,ur relationship with him is bad ,u r losing him , which means losing ur soul
2007-04-03 17:56:11 · answer #10 · answered by rock harder 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋