Having wealth was not his sin and I keep telling you that. His sin was placing that wealth ahead of God in his life, and that is obvious from what Jesus told him to do and from his disobedience. It's just that simple.You are deliberately ignoring my point. Wealth is neither right nor wrong, but placing it before God certainly is. That was the man's failure. Remember the first of the Ten Commandment.Exactly. Jesus was making it clear to the religious authorities of the day that their legalistic approach to obeying the law would get them nowhere.
It was not the legalistic approach it was the literal approach where the man fell short.
Material wealth had nothing to do with it. Wealth is not a sin the man placed before God. That is you inserting something into the story that is not there. His error was in the way he followed the law. Jesus said to sell off all of that and follow him, not follow him around Judea but follow his teaching about what is the only right way to interpret and conform to the divine commands that fulfills the promise of life.
Whether you are rich or poor, unless you sell off all of that garbage that addles your head you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Having wealth does not mean that he placed wealth before God. His lifelong dedication to the law shows that he placed God before wealth.
What the man had to give up in order to follow Jesus was the way he had followed the law for his entire life..
Your interpretation falls short when you realize the Jesus not only told the man to divest himself of his great possessions, but to give the proceeds to the poor. If Jesus was telling him to give up a belief pattern, why would He tell the man to give them to the poor? That just makes no sense. It's far more logical to assume that the Scripture means what it says.