Is a gift from God ever evil?

Is a gift from God ever evil?

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

10:38 AM

There are a lot of people who look at the saying in the Bible that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven and decide that it means that it is bad or evil or even a sin to be rich. 

If that is the case then read this verse and I have a question on the other side.

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20(NKJV)

Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage. 

As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. 

For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.

If a man's wealth is a gift from God as Solomon says in Ecclesiastes then are we to assume that God gives evil gifts?  Or might the more logical answer be that many are misinterpreting the eye of a needle verse?  I think misinterpretation is the more likely answer.

So what does the eye of the needle verse mean?  My belief is that it means that the wealthy have more temptations between them and Heaven and that is what makes it harder for them to get into Heaven.  It has nothing to do with the mere fact that they have wealth.  It is all about the additional temptations they face.

Make sense?