Also something about being saved by works. Make a lot of money, and you become perfect in God’s eyes, right?
You said, “Make a lot of money, and you become perfect in God’s eyes, right?”
I think you’ve got that characterized wrong, according to how these people see it. You portray it as the money first, and then salvation. And thus salvation is the “result”.
HOWEVER ... they see it the other way around, FIRST is salvation by faith in Christ, then the “confirmation” of that is that the money comes “as a result” because God wants all his children (i.e., those who are saved) to have all the deserved blessings they should have, as Christians. If a Christian doesn’t have those blessings, it’s because they don’t understand that “God wants them to have it!”