Based on your belief, what's Money's role in your life?

Question

Is it OK to have money? Is it OK to spend it frivously or save it? Is it OK to desire money and possessions? Is it OK to work harder for more money?

Answer 1

Money is what keeps me fed, clothed, and sheltered. It's okay to indulge yourself once in a while. It's rather pointless to spend your money too frivolously, though. It's fine to want a few nice things for yourself and/or financial stability, but money shouldn't be the focus of your life. Most beautiful things in life don't require money.

Answer 2

I am a Christian. Money pays the bills. It buys me food. It pays the rent. It keeps my power on. It doesn't buy happiness or power. My power comes from God. I give money to people that need it more than I do. When I have more than enough, I do not mind giving to someone that does not have enough. I give a portion to my church because I think that's important. I don't believe it is part of salvation security that I give to my church. It truly is something I love doing. I wasn't like that in the past. I used to despise it. But, I realize now something very important -- if I have what I need because of what God has provided for me and money in the bank I am more blessed than many people. If I give my money freely to a ministry that is blessing me each week, then they are then able to multiple it with other people's gifts and do more than I could have ever dreamed of.

I think everyone needs to examine where they put money in their lives. However, for me, money is not the most important thing to me. When I die, it will do me no good. It cannot buy me any bit of the joy that ONLY God can give me. Having a possession won't do me any good to get the intangible things of life that are totally priceless -- love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and so on. I do not think the desire of things is a bad thing. I think the desire of things above the desire to ultimately seek after, learn about, love, befriend, serve, worship, and commit to God is bad for someone because it destories the one relatioship with the one being that will never, ever let us down.

Answer 3

I'm not sure; perhaps if I actually had some money I'd be able to answer better.

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, said, "Earn all you can, and save all you can, so that you can give all you can." There's a story that when Wesley first went into the ministry, he was making something like 30 pounds a month. He found he could live on 28 pounds per month, so he gave 2 pounds per month to the church. As the years went by and his salary increased, he was still able to live on 28 pounds per month, so he gave more and more to the church.

The Bible never says that money is evil; it says that the LOVE OF money is the root of all evil.

Another way to answer your question, given that you capitalized the word "Money": Although I like a lot of Eddie Money's music, he really plays no role in my life.

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Answer 4

Money pays the bills. I make the bills because I like having stuff. I spend pretty frivolously. It is necessary to work harder for more money (or marry well). I should save more, for practical reasons. But hell, I got too many bills.
Money may not buy happiness but it is a good down payment!

Answer 5

Money is necessary. A house must be provided for, food, clothes, transportation, etc. All this is given and received from money. From the beginning, God asked us to be His stewards- we are to manage that which belongs to Him, i.e. everything.

This means save and watch the money grow (parable of the talents), be prosperous so that we can help others (the Samaritan parable), we are to work for our money but to remember from Whom it came and to Whom it belongs (the woman who gave a few coins as her offering to God, a couple parables of a land owner who worked just to work and make money- he lost his life).

God wants us to be prosperous. If we follow His ways and teachings, He promises us and abundant life not only here but also with Him eternally.

Answer 6

Money is the manifestation of greed & materialism. Those who persue it as lifes ambition are shallow & empty, those who make a living off of selling money (bankers) are despicable parasites: usury anyone? That used to be a sin of almost all religions!

It is everything I am training myself to let go of.

In responce to "Money is what keeps me fed, clothed, and sheltered." You can be fed, clothed and sheltered by peoples good, charitable nature. It does not keep people alive- it keeps people enslaved to tax & interest rates.

When people don't have enough of it they can kill themselves, steal, murder, lie etc!

Answer 7

Money is something that causes a lot of peoples' downfalls. When some people have too much they think that they can do anything on their own as long as they have money.
I believe that you should give God the top of your earnings (before taxes are taken out). After all it is His to begin with. I have found that the more I give to the Lord the more He blesses me. Not just monetarily, but with other things.

Answer 8

These that you have quoted are the mark of the beast.

Jesus said, you can not serve God and Mammon (riches) for you will hate one and love the other.

Why did the rich man find himself on the wrong side of the gulf, in the story of Lazarus and the rich man.

I tell you it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to see the kingdom.

Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor.

And the devil said in Luke 4:6 for it has been delivered unto me and I give it to whosoever I will, I give it, if thou wilt worship me.

The riches of THIS world come from Satan, the riches from the kingdom, (the true Promised Land), come from God the Father.

Answer 9

I personally detest the stuff and those that equate having more than enough as 'success'.

People that really work hard, seldom become rich, but others, e.g. their bosses, probably will.

Atheist.

Answer 10

Exhange currency?