General Discussion

Even the Pharaohs, who locked up their treasure in secret chambers, are robbed centuries later and their remains put on display in museums.

IIRC, it was G.K. Chesterton who said that he'd have no books in the afterlife except the ones he gave away in life.

David Loy argues that beyond a certain amount, wealth, fame, power and such are merely symbolic, and being so, there can never be enough. Someone will always have more! And they are symbolic of greed, hardly a plus with old Saint Peter, as people say.

And outside of the Bible, there are examples of people with great hearts:

Master Fu. He wasn’t a monk, he was a layman. He had a wife and two children. He was a small-time farmer, had his own little farm. But in his middle twenties he retired to the mountains with his family to practice Buddhism. In the day he would work, farming. And in the night, all night, he would meditate, and read deeply of the scriptures. And he was obviously a man of considerable attainment, because at various times in his life he sold all of his possessions, he just sold everything. And with the proceeds he gave to the poor and needy, of which there were many, because these were times of famine. He would even hire himself out as a day laborer to earn money to give away, but still do his practice at nighttime.

Your religion is what you do, not just what you say.