Hey, so I'm looking at the Q&A here, and I saw a question about what jobs are permissible
for Christians, and specifically they're asking is it permissible for Christians to work
a job in the finance and trade securities.
Finance issue and trade securities, you know, so what do you, what do you think about that?
Like are they talking like you're like a broker, like you're in Wall Street or something like
that?
I don't know, I just read the question.
I've had someone ask me a question about like banking, you know, because we were
talking about usury and, you know, all that stuff, obviously the Bible speaks a lot
about usury and not, you know, basically putting interest on things, and so my answer
to that was usually like, well, if you're in the bank and you're like a clerk and you're
not like the one that's putting out usury on people, then I don't see like that there's
a big deal with that, like if you're just a teller and you're dealing with that, you
know what I mean?
Yeah, it doesn't make you like this evil usurer just because you're a bank teller.
I think it's okay to just work as a bank teller or whatever, and I know somebody
that works for like an investment banking firm and they are what's called a compliance
officer, so they're like keeping people honest, like making sure that the salesman
doesn't just promise them the moon and break laws and stuff, so I mean at least
that's a job where he's being kind of a watchdog, you know, keeping them honest,
so I don't see what would be wrong with that, but I'm sure that there are some dishonest
jobs in the financial sector.
Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that, so I would say this, if you're wondering whether
it's dishonest, it might be dishonest, if you're having to think about it, then it's
probably not the most honest thing.
So what are some other jobs that Christians should not do that you would just say Christians
don't do it?
I mean I wouldn't want to work with anything where I'm dealing with like alcohol or things
like that.
I mean, I know if you're like working at a grocery store, that's a little different
than if you're like working at like, if you're working at a restaurant and you're
like the bartender, I think that obviously you shouldn't be doing that.
You don't want to be like mixing a martini or something.
Right, yeah, yeah, so I'm trying to think off the top of my head as far as like things
that, you know, obviously anything that would be obvious that you wouldn't want to be involved
in like Bard or different things like that, but yeah, some of it's pretty obvious, yeah.
So the big one though is probably the banking, that's the big one that I've had people
ask me about, you know.