I have no idea if he’s right or wrong, I’m just shaking my head in wonder at how people think that this idea is pure blasphemy, when the reality is that it wouldn’t matter one way or the other. It wouldn’t negate Jesus’ teachings in the slightest.
I agree. Rich is relative to the culture and time . It’s like hearing that bread was 10 cents a loaf way back when so we think- WOW, how rich would we be if that were the cost of living now, with current salaries. But salaries then went about as far as ours do now.
Even if Jesus were wealthy or even well-to-do by the standards of Jews then, he certainly gave it up to walk the desert with the poor.
The whole debate only matters to those who want to USE it to justify their mansions and cars and clothes while claiming to be like Jesus. They don’t want to live humbly, as he must have, so they have to elevate him to their wealthy class. No one can prove anything anyway.
It’s pathetic and repulsive.
I’ve always had this fantasy of Jesus returning and showing up at one of those TV preachers show first( the ones with the $1000 suits and the jewelry and million dollar production) to demonstrate his parable about the camel passing through the eye of a needle and the rich.
I would be very worried were I them- talking one way and living another.