Who is Mammon?

Oh for Christ's sake, mammon was Caesar. When Jesus said you can't serve mammon he was referring to Caesar, whose own tax coin claimed he was a god, hence "god of money". Christians should stop listening to priests and preachers and read the Bible instead. Jesus called priests hypocrites for good reason.

Who would Jesus tax?

Christians are wrong about mammon. When Jesus used the term mammon, "You cannot serve both God and mammon," he was referring to Caesar, because Caesar's tax coin inscription claimed Caesar was a god, or "god of money." Mammon is actually Caesar, aka the government. So, Jesus really said, You can't serve God and government.

The same deception was used by the Bible when Jesus was asked about taxes. If the Bible simply told readers that Caesar's tax coin inscription said "Caesar is a god", then at least some Christians would have realized that Jesus was saying, render (give back, put back, return) to Caesar his coin, because having it is against first and second commandment.

There are cultures - primitive by our standards - that live very simply, like the wild birds of the air and animals of the forests and fish of the seas whom God lovingly takes care of. These people - and the fish and birds and animals - don't serve Mammon. This is how Christ meant for us to live; he pretty clearly said so.

Almost nobody today is willing to do that so we twist the meanings to justify our soft, excessive lifestyles, give lip service to "serving God", while what we all serve is this soft, comfortable, yet Earth- and soul-destructive modern life we've developed over the centuries. An Armageddon is coming, but it's one we've constructed.

Wow, some really good thinking here. As a 'born-again' Christian (is there any other type? Seriously) and not a wingnut by any means, I think it's really sad that millions of Christians still start their day without a clue, or any real understanding, of what it means to serve God vs serving Mammon.

I think too, that Jesus focused on this a lot and that good understanding and practice of such teaching is essential to a Christian living in a way pleasing to God. God is building a global network of connected souls whose goal is to abrogate, overthrow and subdue the godless and their master. This network must have a currency system, and a way to obtain goods and services. It is being implemented. but it will take some more time before we can all begin to participate. Watch this space! God is not mocked and will never give his glory to another!

Pray with me, to see a real deliverance from the prison hold of debt slavery, which we are all teased with (and eventually forced) to join. You work to eat, right? Unfortunately, if you do, you are working for the system, which is based on debt slavery. It is global and pernicious; ever-expanding and eventually, everyone will participate (even cripples need to eat). But, it is not the end of all things. In due time, we shall see our deliverance and the armies of the enemy will be ruined and brought to nothing.

Christ and the apostles were "far beyond socialists." Having "all things common," means none of them lacked, but had sufficient for what was necessity. None of them took "ownership" of another's property, that didn't belong to them.

However, your statement on "mammon has never been found to be a demon, etc." is false. His name was Baal, also called "Mammon" by the Greeks, and he was a "personified lord of wealth." When Gentiles were in need of wealth, they prayed to Mammon (Baal) for their "provision." The Greek word "Mammon (mammonas)" literally meant "god of wealth."

This Christ Joshua (not Jesus; Jesus was Latin, not a transliteration of Hebrew) identified it (as did Paul (2Co 4:4) as the devil himself (Mt 4:9).

In western countries like Denmark, the government forces

people to serve mammon. People without money are enslaved to do something called "aktivering". You have to serve the mammon system at least 35 hours a week by working a pseudo job or pseudo education, or else you will get no money at all. Even if you are insured against unemployment you will be "activated".

The politicians talk about working more hours and more years to solve the financial crisis.

Work, Work, Work for money, more money, more money.

This is in response to 'anon61601 ':

Socialism is not biblical! You apparently do not read the Bible or if you do, you don't understand it.

Yes, in a way you are right. In the Bible is does teach something of a socialism culture. However, with that being said, it is a free will type of socialism (people are willing to give, rather then have it taken from them to give to someone else), and not government controlled!

I don't know what you are trying to accomplish with your so called "fear to understand" but it isn't going to work. There is a difference between giving freely, compared to having it taken from you and given to someone else.

Just remember this much: while there is something of a socialistic society in the Bible, it also says in there "If you want to eat, you have to work"! I have a problem with busting my butt for 50k a year and the government is trying to tell me that they are going to give the next person 50k a year, and all they did for that year was sit at home, drinking alcohol or doing drugs, eating ho ho's and watching jerry springer!

You need to be more careful how you word things from now on, especially when you try to do it in a 'Biblical sense.'

What Jesus meant is that money should not be your master. Money has a power over people. For a Christian, the amount of money he has or does not have, should not affect his relationship with God. God should be his master. His joy should be based on God and not money.

The tenets of socialism defy religion and specifically see it as opiate of the people. I'm with you on much of this, but Marx's ideas do not allow for the practice of religion. Beyond anarchy, I can't see a government system that is simpatico with the teachings on Mammon.

To say we must live in a money based economy, in an accepting way, giving the nod to capitalism (which would and will destroy us all and the planet, it knows no bounds and serves only the pursuit of ever more profit: Mammon!) is typical of the denial that pervades our so called 'free news media' and will never admit, acknowledge or explain or condone the existence of anything other than so called 'western democracy', which enslaves us all.

We live in elective dictatorships where global capital and corporations hold all of our lives in the balance.

We have no political power much less the freedom to pursue God without serving Mammon.

Jesus and his disciples held all things in common, the ownership or not as the case may be. Study the teachings, and you will find socialism to most likely fit the bill!

We, now we but mostly everyone within the US's sphere of influence has never been allowed to even understand what socialism is and how it can give real democracy to all, right down to the ground.

Only poisoned shadows of fear are given to any who would seek to understand and to those who would never seek, they are firmly under those shadows, never to awake!