Jesus said it is hard for the rich to enter heaven because if one trusts in one riches to enter heaven if one believes truly one is good that one is worthy that one deserves heaven because of ones works in working hard to be rich as though because one worked and was not lazy. Because one may believe if one worked hard that even though it made one rich one helped others and that made them rich that one deserves salvation because of one many works that one deserves salvation and did not know how much one needs Christ.
As psalm 49 shows for one does not go to heaven for trusting in ones own deeds because one was able to do many things and become rich if one trust is in just in himself and not in Christ but one must only work what Christ requires and he should never think he is worthy.
According to my dad the rich man who came to Jesus asking what shall he do to have eternal life was not actually required to sell everything for Jesus said if you want to be perfect. For Jesus did not want him to only because he believed he kept all the commandments perfectly for he trusted he was perfect.
I myself don’t agree that bible says you need to sell everything
Sadly, even Christians over-do this that they end up with nothing or just very little left to help the poor with. If you went over-board simply proves you love worldly things more than God.I believe bible teaches to enjoy the fruit of labor
Holding a job or running a business is simply to gain money. Gaining useful skills in the process is only a bonus but not a requirement.Or perhaps it is right to work for money as person must use talents to gain skills
No need to complicate things. You can do any job or business even with skills utterly useless in the church or to the poor as long as your job or business didn't caused others to sin.Jesus said make friends by unrighteous mammon so that you give what you don’t need to keep for gaining other skills to poor.
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