Your financial wealth is your cash, your bank account, your pension, your house, your car, your belongings, your investments, etc minus any outstanding financial debts you might have (such as a student loan or mortgage).
How much is required in order for you to count as financially wealthy, by the definition used in the Bible?
Wealth is currently not distributed evenly across the globe:
Do you think you'll be in the top 10% worldwide, by financial wealth, upon your death?
How do you interpret the various things said in the Bible about wealth and greed?
um, no. i'm probably going to be just making it. I'm okay with that.
Years I will die financially wealthy just based on family inheritance and hopefully my own earned wealth
Quoting Clairwil:financially wealthy, by the definition used in the Bible?
The Bible talks a lot about wealth, but it isn't generally explicit as to what it means.
For example:
James 5:1-3
King James Version (KJV)
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
well thats intense.. i think i'd rather be spiritually wealthy and financially poor rather than the other way around.
although i wish everyone gave me stuff for free. haha
Quoting Clairwil:
Quoting Clairwil:financially wealthy, by the definition used in the Bible?
The Bible talks a lot about wealth, but it isn't generally explicit as to what it means.
For example:
James 5:1-3
King James Version (KJV)
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Mean worldwide income: $10,000
Median worldwide income: $1,000
One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight.
One in four of the world's children are stunted.
The vast majority of hungry people (98 percent) live in developing countries, where almost 15% of the population is undernourished.
870 million people in the world do not have enough to eat
66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world
Undernutrition contributes to 2.6 million deaths of children under five each year
(source)
James 2:15-16
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and
yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is
that?
Luke 3:10-11
And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
I'm at my wits end..
- Clairwil
on Jan. 26, 2013 at 8:34 PM