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• Title: Treasures in Heaven: In Gary Anderson's Sin: A History, Theologian Bruce D. Marshall Finds the Great Biblical Change in Understanding Our Relationship with God
• Author : Bruce D. Marshall
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 78 KB

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Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven" (Mark 10:21). How shall we take these words of Jesus? Most readers will recognize Jesus' injunction to self-sacrifice for the poor, but what shall we make of the thought that our gifts yield "treasure in heaven"? Jesus concludes his mandate to care for the poor by injecting a mercantile note into our relationship with God: We give to the poor, and God rewards us with a deposit in our heavenly bank account. Disconcerted by the suggestion of a kind of financial arrangement between us and God, most modern interpreters ask us not to take this passage literally. We should give what we can to the poor, of course, but Jesus is only using figuratively the idea of alms as a source of credits good for the world to come. Yet Jesus goes on to insist that those who have given up everything to follow him will be rewarded for what they have done, and the repayment will come not only in the next life hut in this one--at an astonishing rate of interest: "a hundredfold now in this time ... and in the age to come eternal life" (Mark 10:30).

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