Explain How Christian beliefs can effect the Christian attitude to wealth and poverty

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Explain How Christian beliefs can effect the Christian attitude to wealth and poverty

        This essay will be focusing on wealth and poverty and how Christian beliefs can affect the Christian viewpoint towards this matter. The correct definition of wealth is the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money, and the saying that associates with this definition is that “great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence.” The correct definition for poverty is the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions as well as describing a wide range of circumstances associated with need, hardship and lack of resources.

        There are several facts and statistics about wealth compared to poverty. Africa, South America and Asia play the major part of the world’s poverty problem and are a priority to try and improve the situation and living conditions there. Here is a table comparing the statistics of living for the richest people in the world and the poorest people in the world:

Facts of death related to poverty:

  • 35,000 people die every day as a result of hunger
  • More money is spent on armaments in one day than the world’s two billion poorest people have to live on in one year
  • More people have died as a result of hunger in the past six years than have been killed in all wars, revolutions and murders in the past 150 years
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These sorts of statistics and facts could affect a Christian’s behaviour by making them want to do more to help the situation and can be done in several ways such as donating to a charity in order to fulfil the role of being a steward of God (he put us on earth and made us in his image, therefore we are all equal and should help one another).

        We should be loving with our money, we should not hoard, we should be private in donations and should follow the example of Christ. The sources of authority for these ...

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