Just wondering! :)
2007-07-31 19:24:54 · 23 answers · asked by Meow 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If the neo-right-wing evangelical Republican movement has its way, then it's obvious based on what they are striving for in America:
Wealthy Christians in Heaven will be able to have designer wings, have their streets paved with gold, and live in the biggest mansions with no capital gains because of their huge heavenly tax cuts.
Poor Christians in Heaven will get tiny tax cuts to keep them pacified, have wings from Walmart, streets paved with gravel, and delightful little mobile homes in which to live. Of course, they will have the opportunity to go to work for the wealthy Christians, make even more gold for the wealthy Christians' streets and mansions, and even earn back a tiny portion of what those wealthy Christians took from them in the first place.
Ah, ya gotta love that old-time, trickle-down, Lassez Faire, Free Market Christian love and compassion, just like Jesus taught. Don't you?
2007-07-31 19:47:39 · answer #1 · answered by Don P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Luke 18:18-30 The parable of the rich ruler.
2007-07-31 19:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mat 19:23 And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."
2007-07-31 19:29:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, presumably rich people--even if they profess to being Christians--are going to get a designer brimstone pit instead...
2007-07-31 19:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible's pretty clear on the answer...
NO.
It was the focus of many of Jesus' sermons. The Prodigal Son, the Eye of the Needle and the Camel, The Good Samaritan, The Poor Man who gave more,...
2007-07-31 19:28:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought rich people had as much chance of going to heaven as a camel through the eye of a needle.
2007-07-31 19:27:19 · answer #6 · answered by suigeneris-impetus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What makes you think we get wings in heaven? There's not an angel in the whole Bible that has wings.
2007-07-31 19:29:21 · answer #7 · answered by Brother Andrew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes only if they hold "THE FLAG OF ISLAM" and get both arms cut off...
there is only one that will have wings in heaven from our time...
its that man that faught in the holy wars of oppression from the idol worshippers... he held the flag in his hands and walked towards them.. they cut off his one arm, he used the other, and kept walking, they cut off his other arm, and he used the stumps of his shoulders to hold the flag and he kept walking.. and they killed him......and he died. May Allah SWT be pleased with his soul inshAllah ameen!
Allah SWT said he will be the only one of human race to have fashioned CUSTOM MADE DESIGNER WINGS FROM THE LORD FOR HIS ACT.
Yes there is one man he may have been christian long ago.. but he held the flag of Islam! salam
2007-07-31 19:36:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rich does not mean makes false abuse of his money, though it encourages it.
Some rich Christians are true believers.
If you are joking, don't.
And if you are not, I don't think in Heaven, our earthly currency and our possessions will matter.
2007-07-31 19:30:05 · answer #9 · answered by Someone 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
monitary items we have on earth is a test from God to how we deal with such gifts.. Are we hoarders, generous, philanthropists, etc... We do not take these items with us to heaven (or hell)... We are all equal in the eyes of God, except in the case of who is more faithful
2007-07-31 19:28:06 · answer #10 · answered by Mintee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋