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eBook about Christians & Money - Is it okay for Christians to want to get rich?
eBook about Christians & Money - Is it okay for Christians to want to get rich?
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Is it okay for Christians to want to get rich? Taking Jesus' Sermon on the Mount into account, Christians are not to focus their lives around "laying up treasures on this earth." This would indicate that the accumulation of earthly wealth is not to be one's primary goal in life.
In his letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul places the "love of money" at the "root of all evil" (I Timothy 6:10). While most modern English translations have softened this to say "the root of all kinds of evil," the original King James Version seems to be more accurate to the original Greek.
The "love of money" represents greed - the desire for gain. Sociologists today would be hard pressed to deny that greed and the desire for gain -- for possession - is not at the source of all our social pathologies.
Want to know more? Keep reading!
In his letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul places the "love of money" at the "root of all evil" (I Timothy 6:10). While most modern English translations have softened this to say "the root of all kinds of evil," the original King James Version seems to be more accurate to the original Greek.
The "love of money" represents greed - the desire for gain. Sociologists today would be hard pressed to deny that greed and the desire for gain -- for possession - is not at the source of all our social pathologies.
Want to know more? Keep reading!
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