Why would a loving God want people to be poor? Why couldn't God just have everyone be rich on Earth?

?2019-01-03T18:57:09Z

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True wealth isn't money (those suddenly rich learn this soon)....

“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.

Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?"

(Isaiah chapter 55)

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(John chapter 4)

?2019-01-03T21:54:02Z

Jesus said in John 10:34 we are all Gods . We are creating our own environments in order to motivate ourselves to become perfect like God .

?2019-01-03T20:43:33Z

In the U.S., most that are poor, are that way because they s@ck with money. A miraculous padding of bank accounts would do little to change that.

?2019-01-03T19:40:52Z

He could. He's provided plenty of everything we need.

But a lot of people have a tendency to waste it, and some of them have a tendency to deal with their own wastefulness by hogging lots more than they need. That's what we tend to call being "rich."

So it's rich people who prevent everyone being rich.

runningman0220032019-01-03T19:17:40Z

Stop asking these questions! Religious nuts always think they have the answer

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