[zane]

I’ve studied the Bible a good bit in my short life so far, and I take it from your question that you are referring to an issue that comes up in the first commandment and again in Jesus’s statement that a person cannot serve two masters, but only hate one and love the other, and if I understand you correctly, you feel that in letting yourself cut loose in the exercise of your interest, you’ll be doing something really wrong. The final decision is yours, but let me offer you some things to think about. First, most people knowledgeable on the subject will tell you that the ultimate underlying meaning of God’s Law is to love him and each other with all our hearts. Loving someone, in any earnest way, can hardly break this law, nor preclude you from loving as many people as you are ‘supposed to.’ Next I would point out that we are told to meditate day and night on the Law, and to pray without ceasing. Some people interpret this to mean literally pray without ceasing, but some people find it more meaningful to interpret it as consecrating everything you do with the gifts and traits God gave you to the fulfillment of his will, in other words, make everything about you and all that you do a prayer. If you believe God has created or otherwise allowed this style of love in you, I would argue that the truest way to honor him is to fulfill the office to the best of your abilities. Finally I will point out that Jesus came as a servant, and reminded us that those who serve as willingly and faithfully as he did are doing God’s work. I don’t see an inherent conflict in your lifestyle, unless your partner instructs you to blaspheme God, in which case things are stickier than anyone can deal with.

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[zane]

Studying history does in fact show a lot about why people of Jewish stock are involved in money. In addition to the facts already pointed out, that Jews had a hard time getting other jobs because of who they were, that scholarship and family tradition are strong in the culture, and the issue of usury, during the middle ages, there were actually papal bulls in which the pope said that handling money was dirty and inappropriate for a Christian to do. In those days, what the pope said was what the community did. So Jewish people, who were in European cities for various reasons, found that by applying their culturally-driven work ethic and shrewdness they could get and succeed in these suddenly vacant jobs in finance and so forth. By the time Christians decided that maybe money wasn’t so bad (Christians still used money a lot, obviously) there were already lots of Jewish, if i may use the word, dynasties of strong family owned and staffed financial establishments. The only other people in Europe who got into it before the more modern era were the denizens of Amsterdam, for whatever reason.

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