Last week Amanda Moerlien pondered over a struggle that has intrigued mankind ever since man wrote down random shit and called it "The Bible."

We so often hear how wrong it is to focus on material objects. Even the apostle Paul said, “the love of money is a root of all evil.”
Instead of focusing on wealth, we should be focusing on God.
As great as that sounds, faith doesn’t pay the bills, faith doesn’t put food on the table and faith won’t let me sit on my butt all day doing nothing and still be successful in life.
So why do I have to choose between one and the other? Well, apparently, because the Bible tells me to.
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money,” according to Luke 16:13.
Truly we all live in a world hobbled by its own moral ambiguity. Which do you do, eat or worship? Live in sin, or die and go to heaven? Persecute Jews, or persecute Muslims? Is it possible to have money and still be an ethical person? I just don’t know. Does "successful" only mean having a lot of money, or is it more closely related to loving others deeply and being deeply loved in return? Would the righteous thing to do be to just mooch off others, like Jesus would do? I wish there was some sort of guidebook for stuff like this. Not afraid to be servicey, Bailey Embry sent a letter to the editor, out-Christianing Amanda and pointing the rest of the Gentiles to some helpful references.
Scriptures like Psalm 35:27, 37:4, 3 John 2:1, Proverbs 13:22 and Luke 5:1-10 clearly state that the God of the Universe does not have a problem with individuals possessing money.
I believe he has a problem when individuals have a "wrong" relationship with money as seen in Scriptures like 1 Timothy 6:10 and Luke 16:13.
If she knows her Bible that well, imagine how diligently she’ll manage a stock portfolio! When the Jesus market goes south, sell sell sell! Or was it Hell Hell Hell? I always get those mixed up. Does it really make a difference?

[Source: K-State Collegian]