I've never heard this until I read it in an answer a couple minutes ago. How is debt a sin? Is some debt okay, and not other debt, or is it all wrong? Is it wrong to get a mortgage? What about school loans?
Sometimes you don't have a choice if you want a decent education. We don't all have Mommy and Daddy's pocketbook paving the way.
2007-10-29 05:54:26 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think it's wrong unless you're intentionally taking money you know you won't be able to return. I think that's what debt means in the biblical sense.
2007-10-29 05:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever seen the Merchant of Venice (the new one with Joseph Fienes, Robert DeNiro, and Jeremy Irons is really good)?
Many people interpret the new testament as considering the lending and borrowing of money to be a sin: "Neither a borrower or lender be." That is why Christians had to sneak over to the Jews to borrow money. That is also why, when the Christians had amassed so much debt that they could not pay it off, that they "purged" the towns of the sinful Jews (thus clearing their financial debt by having the person they owed money to killed).
2007-10-29 06:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe debt is, in itself, a sin.
Proverbs 22:26-27 tells us to avoid debt if we can.
I think the real thing here is to make sure that you can manage your debt. Most people have to mortgage their house. Many people have to finance their education.
However, people that have tons of credit card debt because they're living beyond their means are the people, I think, that Proverbs is talking about.
"Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you." - Prov 22:26-27
It's always better to be saving for what you need and want, rather than to be paying it off after the fact, with an enormous amount of interest.
2007-10-29 06:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so, I think that if you had no intentions of paying it back then that would be the same as stealing, but debts like a mortgage etc are perfectly normal things to have in this day and age, and I cannot see that sort of debt being a sin. If you borrow loads of money and don't try to pay it back then I reckon that's as sinful as stealing.
2007-10-29 05:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by sparkleythings_4you 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you are not accumulating a debt you know you cannot pay, I don't think, I don't know, you will be convicted immediately by The HOly Spirit when you sin, If you go out and take something you know you can never pay back it will be like trying to get over on someone, and I believe anywhere when you hurt another or lie it is a sin.
2007-10-29 05:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does say 'Owe no man anything, but to love one another' Romans 13:8. In the Old Testament debt was never called a sin, but was warned against.
2007-10-29 06:11:18 · answer #6 · answered by Bug YA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are all right. It's if you have no intention of paying back. Some people get carried away with getting into debt. It would be worse to be in debt and go after someone else in an unforgiving manner, as portrayed in the New Testament.
2007-10-29 06:00:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Debt is not a sin itself. But that question asked about running up debt, with no intention of repaying it, because you believe the world is ending. That's the sin.
However, it is good to avoid debt to the extent possible.
2007-10-29 05:59:08 · answer #8 · answered by cmw 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think debt is a sin. However as followers of Christ we want to be as free as we can of anything that will distract us from having him as our sovereign. We should try to avoid getting involved in commitments that will divide our commitment to Christ alone. Which I understand to mean, yes sometimes debt is inevitable but it is unwise and may even be possibly sinful to go into debt simply to acquire things that we want and don't really need. That would be the same as willingly enslaving oneself to one's material desires. I do believe that Christ's teaching suggests that believers should not hold other people in debt.
2007-10-29 06:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by surlygurl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Debt can never be a sin because just like death it is inevitable.
But it can be a sin when you don't have the intention of paying it back.
2007-10-29 11:43:37 · answer #10 · answered by Blak Dolll 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they are talking about impulse buying or something like that.
and i read that..
"the major sin is lack of trust in God---that I won’t get what I need, God won’t give me what I need unless I go in debt for it. That’s a real fundamental problem in a lot of other sins. People commit sins because they don’t really believe God is going to help them."
2007-10-29 05:59:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋