There's no direct scripture, but there is indirect.
If you look at the story of the widow and the mite, you find that Christ admonishes those who give the widows and orphans just enough so they can give back to the temple. In doing so, they keep them reliant and destitute while making themselves feel like they've fulfilled their Talmudic obligation.
And when Christ says to the rich man "Sell all you have and give it to the poor; then you shall enter the kingdom of heaven." It was not a commandment to all of us to take a vow of poverty, but a direct addressing of the sin of attachment. And the rich man and the beggar; even in death, the rich man demanded the beggar to come and cool his tongue.
Also the good Samaritan.
Nowhere does it say we cannot live lives of comfort, but we must do so with the less fortunate in mind.
What in the hell are you talking about? (I chose that verbiage on purpose.)
The parable of the widow's mite was teaching that her offering was more valuable to God because of her heart condition than money.
Show me where Jesus said ANYTHING about what anyone should have given to her.
41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.
42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
44They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
The rich young ruler asked what he should do to receive eternal life. Jesus told him to obey all the law, to which the ruler responded that he had. Knowing that he hadn't and he was full of it, Jesus showed him where his idol was by confronting him with the fact that he couldn't part with his fortune.
The rich man and LAZARUS was a parable teaching about evangelism and the fact that we have only this life to accept the gospel. (Primarily it was an indictment of the Pharisees for not believing in Him.)
The good Samaritan was very generous and loving. He left just enough to get the man healthy. He didn't sign his life savings over. It wasn't a parable about social policies. It was answering the question "who is my neighbor?" It's the one that you don't expect to be.
What did you do? Pick the four or five parables you could remember and randomly list them?
Jesus didn't deal with alms or social programs in any of your examples.
And there is specific teachings. You're wrong about that.
When asked about whether a woman should have given her treasure to the poor, Jesus said, "You'll always have the poor among you" as opposed to "You guys should all redistribute wealth so that no one is any richer or poorer than anyone else."
In His parable of the talents, each servant got a different amount.
He taught the principle that you are to receive only what you have shown yourself faithful/responsible/profitable with.
Jesus was the God of the Old Testament who set up a welfare system in Israel which consisted of the rich agrarian field owners only going over a field once, and not in the corners, so that the poor of Israel could walk behind the harvesters and pick up enough for themselves. He didn't set up a socialist system where everyone got the exact same amount of fields, and the produce was then redistraibuted because some farmers were better farmers than others.
As I knew you were, you were full of hot air as to what Jesus was all about.
I'd say the beginning of the Christ-like life is to find out who and what He actually was and then go from there. I'm not sure you can turn Him into something He's not and then claim to be like Him.
