How much do many Christians and the United States that claims to be Christian violate this VERSE?

Question

Proverbs 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

I think that many missed this verse. Look at how many "Christians" conduct their businesses and business practices.

Sell your posessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. Luke 12:33, NIV

'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. Ezekiel 16:49 NIV

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mattthew6:20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Answer 1

Just turn on TBN or any other Christian Network and look at the clothes the people are wearing. What is the need, really, for Armani suits? The Christian friends that I have, that actually attend a church, complain about this all the time. My cousins pastor owns 5 cars ( 2 of which are Lexus) 2 motorcycles, owns a huge home (and it's only he and his wife). I hear complaints about this type of thing all the time, so I would say it's very popular for them to violate those verses.

Answer 2

Friend the United States is wealthy not because we are a Christian nation, but because we don't take from the poor & give to the rich, Most of all the 3 rd world countries that is poor, is control or mainly a Catholic nation, Your catholic churches are the ones that cause these nations, & people to be poor. now many always try to use the subject that we need to sell all we have & give to the poor, did you know if we done that, then they would have it all & we will be poor & then in turn they would have to sell all they have & give unto us. Before you look at Christians, & the United States, look at the catholic churches, They have idolds made of gold.

Answer 3

The United States does not claim to be a Christian nation. Some CHRISTIANS claim that the U.S. is a Christian nation.

And I'm not rich, yet I give to the poor, so I DON'T violate any of those verses. I live comfortably, but not richly.

Answer 4

I take it you're unaware that, in terms of dollars (not, granted, in percapita dollars, but in absolute terms), the United States gives more foreign aid than any other country on the planet. We can do that because we are a rich country, and we do give back. Perhaps we don't give to the people YOU think we should give to. Heck, we don't always give to the people I think we should give to. But we do give. As far as I know, we're still providing foreign aid to the Palestinians - you know, the people who danced in the street when they heard about the bombing of the World Trade Center?

As to the "oppresses the poor" bit - there are a lot of people in this world who are firmly convinced that, if you don't do exactly as they want, you're oppressing them. Their belief in that doesn't make it true.

Answer 5

I agree. The greed in this country (USA), is disgusting. It sickens me to see how dishonest and self centered the rich can be. I'm not talking about the blessed, who are wealthy. They are givers. My comfort is knowing that "the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just " Prov.13:22. I always wonder, "just how much money is enough?"

Answer 6

Soooo, Christian businessmen and women are the victims of yet another ill-assumed accusation, eh? And atheist business owners are just complete humanitarians, huh?

Well done. Good job. No inference here worth looking for.

Answer 7

Most Christians miss many verses. Why do you think people 'search' for a good church? They want to find a place that accepts them for who they are and where they can be comfortable. In other words, they take what they want from the Bible and ignore what they don't like.

Answer 8

To claim to be a Christian is to shout to the world, "I do bad things! I do things against God! I sin, and I can't stop! I need serious help that no ordinary person on the planet could ever fix!" That's the first and foremost understanding you ought to have on Christians.

The second understanding is that they have been given the hope that the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ has paved a road to purity of their inequities.

**added** Christians, careful how you judge your fellow brethern. You do not read over their givings! You should not band with the accusers: you should protect your brethern whether you understand them or not. It is God's place to entrust to them what earthly possesions He sees fit, and they are accountable to HIM not you.

Answer 9

Why am I a Christian? i grew to become into not born right into a Christian residing house yet grew to develop right into a Christian by journey. i don't doubt my faith and can't undergo in strategies a time as quickly as I did. in spite of the actuality that it extremely is probably that I at one element did doubt i won't undergo in strategies this type of time. God has finished miracles in my life that are perplexing to describe as something yet miracles. My grandpa is comparatively previous and grew to become into clinically determined with maximum cancers. The medical doctors gave him 6 months to stay. We prayed over him and the subsequent examine up the medical doctors have been astounded to stumble on that the main cancers grew to become into long previous! I certainly have had solid urges to do issues that i does not in many situations. once I examine a verse in the bible and had a solid urge to deliver it to the president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She texted back that this grew to become into precisely what she grew to become into coping with. in the commencing up I skipped over this urge whether it grew to develop into enhanced until eventually it grew to become into virtually insufferable. He enjoyed me first so as that i ought to love him. He fills me with excitement and does works by me. i've got confidence that any faith or concept that's not of God and does not persist with the bible is incorrect and could purely pull human beings faraway from the real God. at some point i will face in the past him and worship him in awe. thank you Lord for all you do for me and please instruct a thank you to all people who want help. talk to them with your amazing voice and knock on their door. supply them the braveness to respond to the knock. thank you Lord for all which you will do. Amen.

Answer 10

You are absolutely right. Most people separate their live's into two different worlds, at home and family they are Christian, in business they are something else all together and it is amazing to me how they justify this. I have seen it any times.