[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

God so loved the world that he gave his only son in order that man MIGHT be saved. Well, who “might” be saved? A “few” per Christ's own words. “Many”(translated Most)will go to “destruction”-The words of the one who was sent that the world might be saved. Neither God nor Christ will help you if you have the misfortune to be born into or acquire wealth. You have probably “bought the farm” if you refuse to give up your wealth to the prisoner, diseased, drunken drugged adulterers and deprive your innocent siblings, wife and children of their basic needs. Christ said it was easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven after he had observed the young virtuous rich man go away sorrowing, Christ interpreted the young man's actions as an abnormal love of money when maybe it was sorrow about his having to impoverish his family.

So we are really faced with many of us going to hell with God's and Christ's approval. There we will roast and pop screaming in pain for all eternity while God, Christ and the Saints will look down upon us with joy and pleasure. Remember Lazarus and "The Rich Man?" The only hope being that maybe after God, Christ and the Saints become bored with watching the rest of us suffer God simply annihilates

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, we could get into quibbles about specifics of the rich man, and various views have been expounded. But one useful view seems to be that if the money is held for the benefit of an entity that is allowed the place of God in your life (especially if that is self) then you are “rich” in the biblical sense. There are other references in scripture that say the believer ought to benefit his family or “is worse than an unbeliever” (in some sense), so being quick to impoverish one’s family (speculative in the case of the RYR who might well have been a single) is not unequivocally urged in the scripture.