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We live in a world based upon the flow of money.
Businesses and individuals borrow money to buy
commodities. The business that sold the commodity made
money, and so did their suppliers, and so on. This flow
of money helps the economy grow
What happens when the percentage of the loan is too
high? Imagine repaying a loan at twenty five or thirty
five percent interest. Or fifty percent interest. The
loaner becomes the loan shark, the extortionist.
Businessmen in the time of Jesus loaned at such rates.
Below the parable of the talents lay the reality of
extortion. Jesus told the story of three extortionists
to shock his audience and make them reconsider their
notions of God’s Kingdom.
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