I'm not saying it's coherent. The New Testament was written by multiple authors with different viewpoints, and tailored to appeal to rich and poor alike. That doesn't change the fact that Jesus is unambiguously quoted telling people not to accumulate wealth, to give all they have to the poor, etc.
Only to Christians who believe in the Trinity. Something not spelled out in the Bible and which there are contrary passages against it such as:
Admired are your words highly fictitious but those are your words.
Jesus hung around the rich
Caiaphas. Pontius Pilate.
Lazurus
Lazarus in John, whom Jesus raised from the dead, doesn't appear to be a rich man.
Lazarus the Brother of Martha and Mary.
Understood since he was the one who was raised from the dead, but where does it say he was rich? Chapter and verse, please.
He had a party the night Mary anointed Jesus's feet with oil. Poor people didn't wouldn't have the dinner party much less use oil to wash someone's feet during that period of time.
Do you admit there is no specific reference, only an inference on your part?
Poor people didn't have dinner party's nor did they have a tomb, poor people wouldn't waste money on expensive oil
Correct, but merchants did. Not necessarily "rich" men. The fact remains the Bible doesn't say if Lazarus was rich. It's just obvious he wasn't dirt poor.
I don't recall his occupation being mentioned
Lazarus was the poor man who went to Heaven in Jesus's parable. The rich man, traditionally called Dives, was the one who went to Hell.
Jesus specifically commanded his followers to invite the poor, not the rich and famous, to their own parties. While this Lazarus and his sisters may have been better off, from the clues you mention, the oil was actually purchased from the disciples' communal fund, hence Judas Iscariot's rebuke of Jesus for not spending the funds on the poor.
There were two Lazarus keep trying.
His followers were the rich so they could feed the poor. The poor cannot feed the poor.
You made a pretty good case that the other Lazarus was rich. Of course he appears in the Gospel of John, alongside Jesus the Platonic logos. Jesus the prophetic scourge of the wealthy appears mostly in Luke and to a lesser extent Matthew and Mark.
Christianity involved rich people even in the days when "Peter" and "Paul" were telling slaves to obey their masters, even the cruel and evil ones, just as they would obey Christ. But in its earliest days, and even later in some parts of the world, it appealed mostly to the rabble. The ones who hoped for, and sometimes received, the charity of the rich.
