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NASB | Leviticus 19:18 'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Leviticus 19:18 'You shall not take revenge nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor (acquaintance, associate, companion) as yourself; I am the LORD. [Matt 5:43-46; Rom 12:17, 19] |
Subject: Wise Christian spending? |
Bible Note: EdB: Merry Christmas Ed! My dad told me of times he worked for very little a day back when....? However, I have never heard anyone recalling those days without telling how much they suffered as well. My first new car was a 64 Chevy and it cost 2,882.00. It lacked every safty satanard we have today! Compaired to the car we got this year about 4 times a much, and gets 33mpg I will take the things of today, thank you. Having been to a few thrid world countries, there are certian things that cost the same no matter where you live. For example tolet paper costs pretty much the same everywhere. No place on earth is 25 to 50 cents an hour a anything but slave wages. May I suggest that here in the USA we have so excepted Walmarts 10. dollar cheap shoes that come from China, and last maybe three months, over a 125 dollar pair of USA made genuine leather shoes that last five or more years and can be resoled! I believe if we continue to act unwisely by buying cheap foreign goods, eventually our wages will continue to go down to match those cheaper cost and poorer quailty goods we buy. There are very few skilled labor jobs get paid a high as they did say 15 years ago. Yet we are telling the X generation they should save up more and more for education and future retirement. We have a generation that sees most things as expendable, and to use until a bigger and better item comes along, be it cars, houses, or husbands and wives. Ed, if we as a country all stopped buying a certian item we wanted to come down in price, that would have the very opposite results, costs would increase because quanity reduces production costs. Scriptually I would say a workman is worthy of his wages. As Christians we need to bring attention to the countries like China that treat the labor so much like slaves. What are your thoughts? justme |