tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post8362035872713669875..comments2023-11-09T02:43:59.293-08:00Comments on Christian Medical Comment: The great financial crisis: A biblical diagnosisPeter Saundershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17222354018504253042noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-87950508809399882212013-06-13T02:38:43.496-07:002013-06-13T02:38:43.496-07:00Biblically there is a big difference. The Bible do...Biblically there is a big difference. The Bible does not condemn good business where one reaps where one has sown and exposed oneself to risk which one bears oneself. <br /><br />But it takes a very different view of leading at interest which it equates to reaping where one has not sown and profiteering from those who are financially dependent. Peter Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17222354018504253042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-18851410955650306182013-01-02T09:40:40.798-08:002013-01-02T09:40:40.798-08:00I am a committed Christian and have run businesses...I am a committed Christian and have run businesses and I still own properties that I rent , at very fair rents. Now I am all for people living simply, avoiding unnecessary conspicuous consumption and investing in good, straight forward businesses particularly if they produce things that we all really need and if it helps boost good jobs and trains up the young. It's a form of the Protestant work ethic, applied to one's capital as well as one's personal time and skills . We need to help make others in society comfortable and perhaps even prosperous, by creating opportunities for them to seize, and not just sit on our pile and gloat. So I"m business minded and very much an active Christian. However I can make no sense of this article, especially after rereading Luke 19, which I was very familiar with anyway. Jesus encourages us to make money by trading , fine, and if we are of a nervous disposition, deposit money in the bank, implied to be a safe place, to gain modest interest. That's what it says to me unless I am missing some deep theological point, but I would take a lot of convincing. Can anyone throw more light on this than my theological studies can ? David Hussellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04131229129243146206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-39637407107185824722012-06-12T13:10:40.761-07:002012-06-12T13:10:40.761-07:00i thoroughly enjoy to read this post. it's awe...i thoroughly enjoy to read this post. it's awesome dear. Thanks for sharing it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.uiu.edu/admissions/financialaid/index.html" rel="nofollow">Financial Aid</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711451837012849336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-11577427366109867162011-11-11T05:40:57.383-08:002011-11-11T05:40:57.383-08:00This Summary is wonderful , I want to have the ch...This Summary is wonderful , I want to have the chance of read more about it , the crisis affect all the financial statutes of the people!Generic Viagrahttp://www.iservepharmacy.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-57623011986833778812011-05-10T08:43:51.525-07:002011-05-10T08:43:51.525-07:00>> Moreover, he further condemns the taking ...>> Moreover, he further condemns the taking of interest in the Parables of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30) and Ten Minas (Luke 19:11–17). <br /><br />I'm sorry, but that's blatantly nonsensical. He condemns the servant who did NOT speculate, but who allowed his talent to sit idly without accumalating interest.<br /><br />>> In the process, Jesus characterises taking interest from bank deposits as ‘reaping where one hasn’t sown’ <br /><br />That may be so.<br /><br />However, in that case he should have commended the only servant who did NOT lend out his talent and make more money out of it, and condemned all the OTHER servants who managed to multiply their money.<br /><br />How on earth can you have it BOTH ways?!<br /><br />The author is talking nonsense.<br /><br />It would be folly to charge those close to us (family/friends) interest for loans taken out of genuine NEED (as opposed to investment opportunities, for example). But it's ridiculous for the author to suggest that no interest be charged or taken AT ALL - when the loan is not out of need, but for a luxury, or other purpose, there is nothing wrong at all in charging/accumalting interest.<br /><br />The important thing is to utilise one's money wisely and with compassion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654455663519806899.post-39958050983177478752011-05-10T03:42:00.330-07:002011-05-10T03:42:00.330-07:00Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel...Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. People deserve wealthy life time and loans or just auto loan would make it much better.<br /><a href="http://www.roadoutofdebt.com" rel="nofollow">Debt Solution</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com