[Ezekiel Bathfire]

It is worthwhile considering Jesus’s view on this. He expressed it well in the parable of the talents (Matthew 25 14-30).

If you remember, a rich man was going away on business and left each of his servants with a talent each (A talent in those days was worth about $1,000) when he came back, he asked each of the servants what they had done with the money. The first and the second servants explain that they each put their talents to work, and have doubled the value of the property with which they were entrusted; each servant was rewarded:

“His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

The third servant, however, had merely hidden his talent, burying it in the ground, and was punished by his master:

“Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.”

Now, this may seem a little harsh, but Jesus wants us all to be rich – he gives us the means to be rich and then does not interfere in our lives, but waits for the result. (Unlike Demoncrats who would have Social Workers, advisors and trainers all over you and all paid for by crippling taxes).

Thus the answer to the dilemma is simple: The rich boy may not go to church… yet… but he is doing what Jesus wants. The poor boy is poor, even though he may go to church – He seems to be a false Christian without any understanding of God’s ways and no hope of redemption.


Simply put, the rich boy will make you and Jesus happy.