>>Joe Offer: "Jesus didn't have much good to say about either - but people still try to prove that their wealth and power are their God-given rights..."

I think if you got a red letter 'New Testament', and read just the 'red letters'(actual quotes by Jesus), I think you may revise your thinking, on that.<<

Not me. I read the red words most often and truly agree with Joe. Furthermore I would say that the values required to accumulate and hold wealth and even the desire to enjoy wealth are not compatible with God's message.

I love the "Eye of the needle comparison. It speaks both to my sense of logic and to my imagination.

Is it impossible, no. But it is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle. Theoretically with a fine enough blender, one could pass a camel through the eye of a needle. But once it came out the other side, it would not be recognizable as a camel. It think the same is true for the Kingdom of Heaven. I think that for the purposes of this example 99.99% of Western society, myself included are rich people.

Take Tim Tibow as a prime example. Considered by many to be a role model of Christian faith, he has signed a contract to work on the Lord's Day, supporting and enabling tens of thousands to work on the Lord's Day. He will probably do so for the next ten to twenty years and become very rich for doing so.

He is deliberately defying a Commandment and he certainly is not innocent of that fact.