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    Mammon

    Luke 16:9 "And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.
    10 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.
    11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
    12 And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own?
    13 "No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

    Christians have reinterpreted mammon to refer to an idol that was supposedly worshipped at the time of Jesus or to various sins like greed, gluttony, the love of money etc. But the Arameic word simply refers to money, wealth and profit. There was no idol called Mammon like there was Zeus, Moloch, Baal etc.

    Jesus says that one cannot serve God and mammon at the same time and that makes sense because anything can be made an idol, including money, wealth, profit. But it's also interesting that he calls mammon (money, wealth, profit) an unrighteous entity. How can an inanimate object with no spiritual qualities like idol images were thought to have be intrinsically unrighteous ?

    It can only be because money, wealth, profit had become an integral part of this world system. Money, wealth, profit were acquired and employed in unrighteous ways, became distributed in an unrighteous manner and came to represent an unrighteous system. Just like it does today, it had a tendency to be accumulated on a few hands where it did little good. Employing "the unrighteous mammon" in a righteous manner by employing it to save souls into heaven as Jesus talked about was not merely a matter of employing an intrinsically neutral entity for good, it was a matter of going against the world current.

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