Wayne Grudem's Business For The Glory Of God

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The world seems to have adopted the view that all businesses and people in the business world are inherently evil. It is easier to see the lies and deceit behind business deals rather than the integrity, honesty, and perseverance. It seems that the business world is tainted with sin, but how did this come to be? This is one of the issues that Wayne Grudem addresses in his book, Business for the Glory of God: The Bible`s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business. He develops arguments for why 11 different aspects of business that, despite popular belief, are actually designed to glorify God rather than cause evil. These aspects include productivity, employment, buying and selling, profit, money, inequality of possessions, competition, borrowing

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