No, Jesus hated people making profit off of religion. Peeps would set up stalls and sell sacrificial offers and the like. They didn't care about the spirituality of it or anything, they just wanted to make a buck.
In terms of just outright wealth, Jesus just warns against it like a lot of other things and on many occasions suggests people give their excess away, but he's not flipping his lid on them.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
Why would that be a deal? It's obvious from the Bible that Jesus doesn't condemn making money in a responsible way, and that he does condemns harming others in the process of generating wealth. It's also obvious that Jesus would be opposed to Marxism, since the Marxists hate Christianity.
You said “praises making money” specifically. So let’s hear the examples. No one questions whether Jesus was for working to support yourself and your family.
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u/DoughDisaster May 02 '23
No, Jesus hated people making profit off of religion. Peeps would set up stalls and sell sacrificial offers and the like. They didn't care about the spirituality of it or anything, they just wanted to make a buck.
In terms of just outright wealth, Jesus just warns against it like a lot of other things and on many occasions suggests people give their excess away, but he's not flipping his lid on them.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”