Of Jesus and Life at the Bottom
By Auguste Meyrat Among the greatest challenges that Jesus poses to His disciples are His prescriptions on wealth. On the one hand, Jesus extolls poverty. He begins the Beatitudes with the declaration, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Elsewhere in the Gospels, He tells a rich man to give away all his possessions since "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." On the other hand, Jesus also acknowledges the need for productivity, especially in the parable of the talents, where…
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