Can A Rich Man Get Into Heaven?: What Jesus Really Said About Money And Why You Don't Learn That In Church (Does The Bible Really Say That? Series)

What Did Jesus Really Say About The Rich Man?

Can A Rich Man Get Into Heaven? What Jesus Really Said About Money And Why You Don't Learn That In Church refers to what must be the single most misunderstood of all Bible verses about money. "Everyone knows" that Jesus said that "a rich man can't get into heaven."

This statement is a serious mistranslation and misunderstanding of the words of Jesus in a story that appears in three of the New Testament gospel stories. Jesus doesn't say that "a rich man can't get into heaven" in any of them.

Eight Misunderstood Bible Verses About Money

The belief that "Jesus said that a rich man can't get into heaven" is only one example of familiar Bible verses that are mistranslated, misunderstood, and misquoted. Can A Rich Man Get Into Heaven? focuses on eight specific statements about what Jesus really said and really didn't say about money, as a foundation for deciding what they mean in the twenty-first century, particularly in the United States of America.

The purpose of the book is to set you free from fear, doubt, anxiety, guilt, and shame about money based on unbiblical claims about "what Jesus said about money."

Can A Rich Man Get Into Heaven? is part of the "Does The Bible Really Say That? Series." The series identifies some frequently misunderstood Bible verses to demonstrate why the Bible often doesn't say what you think it says.

What's The Problem With Bible Verses?

The unifying element of "Does The Bible Really Say That? Series" is the importance of stories. Most of what people "know" about the Bible comes in the form of Bible verses that are disconnected from original Bible stories.

Bonus Report

When you get Can A Rich Man Get Into Heaven?, you also get a bonus report, "Why Bible Verses Are Powerful Enemies Of Your Freedom: Did A Man On Horseback Give The Bible Its Verses?"

Some of the topics in this free report are:

• Why a Bible verse is an artificial object.
• Why the division of the Bible into Bible verses often makes no sense.
• When Bible verses become pretexts for "what the Bible says about money."

What Did You Learn About Money In Church?

If you had any Christian education in your life, you probably learned two contradictory beliefs about money.

• Money is evil and it's bad to be rich.
• Money is a blessing and it's good to be rich.

You might be surprised to realize what the Bible really says about money and why you don't learn that in church.

Structure Of The Book

Can A Rich Man Get Into Heaven? book includes 19 Chapters divided into 5 Parts

• Part One: Bible Stories and Bad Bible considers the impact of Bible stories and verses about money on your life.
• Part Two: Society And Stories focuses on the importance of context for understanding Bible verses about money.
• Part Three: Stories Of The Outlaw Hero introduces the idea of a hero's journey to describe the gospel stories about Jesus.
• Part Four: Money Stories Of Jesus looks at eight specific statements about money by Jesus in the gospel stories.
• Part Five: Money Stories And You makes it personal by considering what Bible stories about money mean for you.

Don't let misquoted, mistranslated, misunderstood Bible verses about money stop you. Find out what Jesus really said about money in the New Testament Gospels now.