Religion, Poverty, and Wealth
Christians believe strongly in world equality, as they feel that they
have a responsibility to care for the poor and needy. These
responsibilities are based upon the five key Christian ideas
1. Stewardship
Genesis (1: 28 – 31)
In this story God creates Adam and Eve. He builds a beautiful house
and a beautiful garden with trees laden with ripe and delicious fruit
for them to live in. ‘Pick the fruit and eat it freely,’ God told
them, ‘but do not eat the fruit from the tree in the middle as it is
evil, and if eaten you will die.’ One day a cunning snake persuaded
Eve to eat a piece of fruit from the forbidden tree. After much
persuasion Eve reluctantly took the fruit and ate it. God was furious
that someone would go against his word, so he banished Adam and Eve
from the beautiful house with the beautiful garden, and out into the
human world.
The moral of this story is to not go against God’s word. One of God’s
teachings is ‘Love thy neighbour’, by Christians helping poverty
suffering communities around the world, then they are ‘loving thy
neighbour’.
2. Biblical cautions
1 Kings (21: 1 – 25)
The King and The Vineyard
In this story the King is determined to purchase a specific vineyard,
he promises the vineyard owner another vineyard or the King would give
him the equivalent in money. The man who owns the vineyard refuses to
sell, stating that Lord would be unhappy with him if he sold the
vineyard. The King is infuriated that someone should disobey him, so
to prove how powerful he is he devises a plot with his wife Jezzabel
to murder the vineyard owner. But the Lord Elij...
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...ional or global scale) can also send a positive and
influential messages to others who wish to follow in that person’s
footsteps.
By helping other religions and coloured groups, it creates a varied
multicultural society, that can learn from other religions and
practices. Without this knowledge of other creeds or lifestyles, we
would probably live a very basic life and not be introduced to a
colourful and more attractive way of living.
Overall I feel that this statement is incorrect as it goes against
many
Christian concepts, and also many other religious concepts. The simple
commandment ‘Love thy neighbour’ shows that this statement is untrue
to many people, and regardless of someone’s colour, creed, religion,
finical matter, living prospect or lifestyle any human being would
freely help a person in need.