Don't taint the church with Mammon

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Christ came to bring our money into subjection to Him, along with everything else. Fiat is His enemy.

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. -1 Corinthians 15:25

Did you know the Holy Scriptures have more to say about money than almost any other single topic? God is God over not only our Sundays but our weekdays too.

There’s a biblical case to be made for bitcoin, for a free market, etc.

Indeed there is! This get's into my thesis 'On Labor and Trade' in addition to my 'Considering Bitcoin' paper shared elsewhere in this thread.

Christ commands us to love our neighbor, and that command ought to permeate not only our personal but also professional lives, and so includes commerce. Love, if it should exist, must be free, for it is compulsion otherwise. Therefore, commerce in a Christian paradigm must be free, that is at liberty and voluntary.

As for money, it is a representation of the good one does for one's neighbor, and so is in essence information. To create money without work, some benefit to society, is to de facto lie, for possessing money says one has done good when he has not.

My Thesis 'On Labor and Trade':

https://courses.fresheyesinc.com/e-book/on-labor-and-trade-a-sacramental/

I shall read both this evening. Thanks for sharing.