DID PAUL THE FIRST WRITER SAY THAT JESUS WAS RICH?

It has been noted that Paul and the people he wrote do showed an uncanny lack of interest in Jesus's life.  This does not fit the idea of a religious superhero having just lived about that time.  Paul says things about Jesus that are in grave contradiction to the gospels and as he wrote first this effectively invalidates them.

In 2 Corinthians 8 he says the Corinthians are to remember that Jesus was rich but for their sake he became poor to make them rich out of his poverty. He added that this didn’t mean that to give relief to the starving and the poor they had to make things difficult for themselves but to use their surplus! So Jesus then was clearly a totally rich man who gave it all up. This denies the gospels which have a Jesus who was born in a stable, had poor parents, had to wander about homeless and often hungry and whose invectives against the rich were harsh in the extreme. Paul means that Jesus was literally rich. There is no room for the idea that he only meant that Jesus had the supernatural power to take whatever he wanted and was rich in that sense but didn’t use it. God or the Son of God incarnate then should have the power to enjoy all the gold in the world for its theirs and their magic can get it for them. Jesus then was only acting poor but wasn’t poor at all if he was one of these. He was like a multi-billionaire who doesn’t use his money but lives in a box with the homeless. Such a man wouldn’t be poor. In Paul’s description of Jesus as rich and then poor we see that he denied that Jesus was God or had the magical power to turn stones into bread or even bread into money. He denied the gospel Jesus who claimed supernatural powers. So Jesus was literally rich but gave it all away. This isn’t in the gospels at all and he contradicts them so they are false.

You may wonder if one of the three wise men giving Jesus gold when he was a baby meant Jesus was rich?  We don't know what happened to the money.  The notion that Mary gave it to the poor is as good as the notion that she stashed it away like a miser.  There is no way to know.