JBaldwin
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Tim:
Wow that is a good sermon!!!!
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Tim:
Wow that is a good sermon!!!!
This is turning into a "just price" thread.
Some of this devolves on the answer to the question: "Am I my brother's keeper"?
Unless you are willing to call getting a good deal theft, though, I think you have to acknowledge different aspects that lay a claim on you. If a thrift store is selling something valuable for cheap, you know they didn't pay anything for it and no one is losing by you gaining. In the situation of a desperate antique-store owner, however, where it may not be a concern of strict justice, it is a concern of charity.
My provisional answer, as I watch how the thread unfolds, is that it is not unjust to get a good deal, because the person set the price and you paid them the price. But if you know that they are in hard circumstances, and selling something for way under value, the Golden Rule, the dictate of charity, would be to let them know about it. I've never thought much about applying the Golden Rule to corporations, though.
Wow, more gold from the Spurgeon sermon that Tim linked:
"...The market goes best when it is left alone..."
It seems like Spurgeon was an economist as well!
Unless you are willing to call getting a good deal theft, though, I think you have to acknowledge different aspects that lay a claim on you. If a thrift store is selling something valuable for cheap, you know they didn't pay anything for it and no one is losing by you gaining. In the situation of a desperate antique-store owner, however, where it may not be a concern of strict justice, it is a concern of charity.
My provisional answer, as I watch how the thread unfolds, is that it is not unjust to get a good deal, because the person set the price and you paid them the price. But if you know that they are in hard circumstances, and selling something for way under value, the Golden Rule, the dictate of charity, would be to let them know about it. I've never thought much about applying the Golden Rule to corporations, though.
If we don't treat corporations as moral persons, and take a steal of a deal from them when they are in desperate need, are we not sinning against the corporation's employees? That Monet on the chair would pay a few annual salaries.
so this all stems from the evil paper dollar...
Thomas, those are some interesting points. So let's get away from our current situation. You're in OT Israel, and an individual from your community is selling his land. However he has miscalculated the amount of time left until the year of jubilee, and so he is charging you only half of what the law would allow. Should you correct his mistake?
On your election analogy, I don't want to take this too far off topic, but I think one weakness there is that salvation is a gift, not a financial transaction.
In Biblical law every man is presumed to have responsibility and the agreement that a man makes with his mouth is binding, whether it is to his own hurt or not.
In Biblical law every man is presumed to have responsibility and the agreement that a man makes with his mouth is binding, whether it is to his own hurt or not.
Reading Numbers chapter 30 it's only heads of households, so there is a competence factor.
In Biblical law every man is presumed to have responsibility and the agreement that a man makes with his mouth is binding, whether it is to his own hurt or not.
Reading Numbers chapter 30 it's only heads of households, so there is a competence factor.
Can you explain what you mean by that?
Hi, just what some others have said like taking advantage of kids, etc...an agreement made by someone in the household other than the head is not binding. So the slick vacuum cleaner guy tricks a wife or daughter into buying an expensive machine and she isn't bound by her word. If she is widowed and living on her own, then she is a head of household and bound by her word.
Actually, the virtuous woman considers a field and buys it, wheels and deals with merchants, etc., gets food from afar, and so on?