{"id":420,"date":"2008-03-20T06:27:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/03\/20\/gods-word-and-money-from-microsoft-money\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:27:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:27:33","slug":"gods-word-and-money-from-microsoft-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/gods-word-and-money-from-microsoft-money\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s word and money from Microsoft Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Abby Ellin<\/font><\/a>\u00a0of MSN money (edited)
\nFaiths usually offer parents very clear direction on child-rearing. Premarital sex, for instance? That’s pretty much a no-no, no matter what deity you worship. Dietary rules can also be pretty straightforward — no pork for Muslims and Jews, no beef for Hindus.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to money, the picture is cloudier. What does<\/em> the Bible\u00a0actually say about money? Does God want us to own a fleet of yachts? Or does he\u00a0think suffering and hardship is noble? Does God want your kid to be rich?<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Happily, the consensus among most religious leaders seems to be that the Almighty does not want you to live off food stamps and is quite happy for you to drive a Porsche. But Scriptures say that a portion of your earnings should be returned through gifts to charity and offerings to the church — what some denominations call tithing.<\/p>\n

Cantor Erik L. Contzius, of Temple Israel in New Rochelle, N.Y., is trying to instill these lessons in his 6-year-old son. Whenever the boy goes to Hebrew school, Contzius hands him a dollar to put in the tzedakah box for charity. Thou shalt not hoard your money<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

“If we teach it at a very young age to give, hopefully it will stick,” Contzius says.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Castleberry, a writer in Virginia Beach, Va., talks about this idea in her series of financial-empowerment books for women, based on Biblical principles.<\/p>\n

“Proverbs 31 has been held up as a standard,” says Castleberry, a mother of two who also writes a newsletter called “The Proverbs 31 Investor<\/font><\/a>.” The Old Testament passage — which describes a virtuous woman as having a price “above rubies” — is “about a woman who is a businessperson, a wife, she has a family, but she became an investor,” Castleberry explains. What the Bible teaches<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

“She knew how to create passive income, she was a real-estate investor — so she was providing for her family and also for generations, so she’s a role model.”<\/p>\n

According to Castleberry, the Bible addresses the topic of money more than any other issue — more than 2,000 passages discuss it. The No. 1 rule? “To tithe or give back,” she says, quoting Malachi 3:10: “Bring to me the first of your possessions and I’ll open up the skies of heaven.”<\/p>\n

The Bible also admonishes us to be good stewards of money (although here Christianity and Judaism differ from Islam, which forbids interest accrual).<\/p>\n

A parable from Matthew discusses a boss who gave his three employees a certain amount of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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