Fighting the Four Evils

Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him (Ezekiel 18:13) Usury is not recognised by many people, including many of the modern western Church to be immoral. Despite what the Bible says about usury numerous times, time and time again, many in the modern western Church think that there is nothing wrong with it. They vehemently deny that it is evil, denying what the Word of God says about usury.  Rather, they, like the world, think that it is an outdated issue, relevant to only Old Testament Israel, and perhaps the Medieval Era of Christendom. That makes it all the more disturbing - for genuine Christians to think that usury is not even an issue, when the true Christian really should be the most vehement fighter of usury. Why so many do not understand Usury The word usury comes from the Latin word ‘usus’ which means ‘a use’. Th...

The article Five Myths about Jubilee is enclosed in the square brackets. My response is interspersed in between the paragraphs enclosed in the square brackets. [Found in Leviticus 25, the biblical practice of Jubilee is becoming ever more prominent in discussions about justice, poverty, and debt relief .] Jubilee is indeed found in Leviticus 25. That it is found in the Old Testament does not mean that it does not apply, or should not be applied in terms of its underlying principles. [Many evangelical authors mention Jubilee as a biblical example of debt forgiveness and redistribution of land. It has also gained popular attention in the news media.] The purpose of Jubilee is debt forgiveness to teach a spiritual lesson about forgiveness. It is not a means of having one’s “rights”, or endorsement of “rights” which the world, and also many Christians in the west would like to make it out to be. [Jubilee has been offered by several sources as a solution ...