Post by jimmie on Apr 6, 2010 9:20:04 GMT -8
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
There is a movement that uses the above scripture to teach Christians that they should not borrow money. In fact I know people who have sold their homes, which they were making payments on, to “get out of debt”. In my view, this movement is causing their adherents to move from servants (bound for a certain time) to slaves (bond for life). There is an end to payments but not rent. Am I missing the meaning of Romans 13:8? Is it telling me that I can’t borrow or lend money? If so please explain the following:
Deut 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
At the other end of the spectrum on this issue is the thought that Jesus did away with the usury laws when he said:
Matt 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
On the contrary the law allows charging non-brothers usury.
Deut 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
There is a movement that uses the above scripture to teach Christians that they should not borrow money. In fact I know people who have sold their homes, which they were making payments on, to “get out of debt”. In my view, this movement is causing their adherents to move from servants (bound for a certain time) to slaves (bond for life). There is an end to payments but not rent. Am I missing the meaning of Romans 13:8? Is it telling me that I can’t borrow or lend money? If so please explain the following:
Deut 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
At the other end of the spectrum on this issue is the thought that Jesus did away with the usury laws when he said:
Matt 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
On the contrary the law allows charging non-brothers usury.
Deut 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
