I see the problem. You have no objective thinking. You can't deviate from your normal, flawed, pattern of thought processing. You have an opinion and you will never change it unless by your own will. Therefore, it is pointless to argue with you. You see, instead of figuring out if you're wrong you just gave up your entire religion. You assumed you were right all along.

I have and I do. I look towards the bible for answers not man !

are you fluent in aramaic and ancient greek????

You will never get a rich person to admit to this

First of all everything belongs to God - everything. Thus it is not a sin to be rich.

I suggest you sit down and read your bible. There you will find all you want.

When you're 8 quotes aren't justifiable then they hold no validity. You're completely misconstruing the intent and meaning behind them. That's easy for you to do when you don't care about them.

collecting taxes on the temple steps......

Those who obey God's commandments shall not want any good thing. The order is important. Those who please God are blessed with riches. Riches attained through any other way have wings - they get up and fly away.

I already answered this, I do not follow the Bible for this very reason. Everyone talking on here is very Rich.
Why haven't you given all of your possesions away? You still must own a person computer as well as many other things. There are homeless that need that shirt you're wearing more then you do.

With God nothing is impossible.

You are too busy looking at the "letter of the law" instead of ther "intent of the law".

The MEANING behind that again is what is in the person's heart. The attitude, as the other user put it.

Look at King David or King Soloman .. they both had great riches.. did they make it to heaven..I believe so.

they eye of a needle referred to a gate in the wall of....forget the city...jeruselum???...but the camel...would have to get on it's knees and "crawl in" so it was possible...just difficult

If you take it as far as you're saying then you shouldn't be wearing that shirt in your profile picture. God gives to the wealthy. If we, literally, gave everything then we'd be poor--also, a burden on others.

Hey someone with a brain!!!

Its ALL about the attitude and way of being!

Money itself is NEITHER good or evil.

As the Bible states, its the LOVE of money (GREED) is the root of all evil.

The Gates foundation (Bill gates & wife) and Warren Buffet are doing good things with thier billions and helping people and causes around the world. So no evil there..just money doing some good things.

Still not a sin to be rich. The rich have many vices. The rich do not seek God being one of them.

the quote reads..."if you want to be perfect"...but as my mom always says.... there was only one perfect person, and he was crucified

You're taking it the wrong way.

It isn't a sin to be rich. He says it's harder for a rich man to get to Heaven. That simply means that a lot what rich people do isn't glorifying to the will of God. Typically, if you're rich then you aren't giving to the poor; you aren't helping others. There isn't a verse in the Bible that says if you're rich then you wont go to Heaven. It's what you do with your money that isn't in alignment with the God's will for us that may send you to Hell.

don't think it's about money...but rather attitude/way of being

I have no idea, I just know that conservatives are not happy with the President. He's weak domestically, financially, border control doesn't seem to interest him at all and he is weak on terrorists. The one thing he has gotten right is Saddam. Turns out Saddam didn't have WMDs and no, the US cannot police the world, but at the time, all evidence pointed to Saddam having WMDs and the US couldn't take the chance of a nuke ending up in a terrorist's hands. The facts speak for themselves, even when the media and 90% of the population wants to revision history.