Relationship Between Money And Greed

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Money and greed:
In the present era, money is important for everyone in this world. According to people concept about money is that there is no importance of people without money. Greed comes when people start to save their money and dislike to spread it among needy people. Greed also come when humanity inside us died and we start loving money. We start give importance to money instead of humanity. There is a relation between money and greed depend on our concept about money. If we start loving money and avoid to help needy people through our money and thought that our moey decreases if we spread it to others this situation become the reason of greed. We can also say that love of money is the main reason of greed. If we thought in alternate
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We should circulate money among people who are poor so that we finish this “rich become more rich and poor become more poor”. Due to circulation of money everyone in the world live a happy and blissful life. Due to this the condition of poor people become better. Islam, Christianity and Judaism teaches us about circulation of money in different ways.
Love of money:
We can’t say that money is the root of all evil but the love of money is the root of evil. When we start love money then we ignore others pain and just want to khnow about our need. Love of money also reason of greed. It makes people selfish about their desires and selfish about their saving. People who love money just want to save money and sum their money into a large amount, they never want to decrease their money through others help. So, love of money is the root of all evil.

Christianity:
Basically, Christians believe that you should not be selfish with your
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13:2).
Proverbs tells us that “The blessing of the Lord brings wealth” (10:22), and describes a simple work ethic: “A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich” (10:4).
In christianity, christs have a duty to be charitable. According to jesus concept, we always love and respect our neighbours as we love ourselfs. Jesus taught that the most important and compulsary comitment were to love God and your neighbours. According to christians charity does not mean spread money, in this it means put your love into practice. Usually christians believe that it is there first and for most duty to care people live in the world. Christians usually use many sources of authority to stress charity. Crishtians famous book Bibble contain many passages who encourage people towards charity.
In mark 10:21 it is said that:
“Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”

In practice, charity is any sort of help that freely given. This could be a donation of time such as visiting the sick, effort such as working on a building project or material things like giving money in order to help

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