Jesus the great debt-eliminator
In both capitalism and Christianity, the more you've sinned, the bigger the dollop of forgiveness. Photo: Ron Tandberg At this time of our greatest Christian holy-days, what does the Bible have to say about economics? A lot more than you may think.
That's according to the Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek, whose book, Economics of Good and Evil, I'll be heavily relying on in this column.
When God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden after they had disobeyed him, part of their punishment was that "by the sweat of your brow you will eat your food" – they'd have to work for their living.
But Jesus said, "Man does not live on bread alone". So we have to be concerned about making our living, but we also have to be concerned about more than that.
"We were endowed with both body and soul, and we are both spiritual and material beings . . .
Without the material, we die; without the spiritual, we stop being people," Sedlacek says.
Christianity doesn't condemn the material, but it does condemn materialism. It's not money that's the problem, it's the love of money. Keep too much of it for yourself and you've probably crossed the line.
Read more at http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/jesus-the-great-debteliminator-20150406-1mdkxq.html
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