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Wealth and poverty essay

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Wealth & Poverty I am going to outline the Christian teachings and the Islamic teachings on if wealth and poverty is a good or bad thing. I will research on the internet, books etc. I will also have papers to help me with what Christianity and Islam think of wealth and poverty. Christians believe that wealth can be used for good, such as buying food for the starving, or evil, such as buying weapons for terrorists, so being wealthy is not a bad thing. Many biblical teachings show that if people have the wrong attitude to money, wealth can lead them away from God. In the parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:13-21) Jesus told a story about a rich farmer who had a splendid harvest and decided to build bigger barns in which to store his extra grains when he had done this he thought to himself ' you have...

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