The Bible is a very long book. There is a lot to read and much of it is not easy to understand, so it always puzzles me when some people feel the need to add stuff.
There is one that particularly annoyed me this week. A couple of times I heard people saying the Bible indicates/implies that the stock market is going to crash soon and people should buy gold and go live in a bunker and raise chicken or something like that.
I read the Bible more or less in it's entirety - can't promise I didn't miss a verse or two - and never once have I seen anything mentioning the stock market. Nowhere that I could find in the Bible is there a date or a formula to calculate a date for the allegedly fall of the sock market soon. I don't never know what "soon" means in this context.
What upsets me it that even if most people will see right through this and maybe just laugh about it, there will always be a few that believe it, and the consequences could be devastating for them.
If people want to buy farms and produce their own food and stay away from the rest of the world, with their gold buried under a tree somewhere, that's their decision. Whatever makes them happy. But connecting the Bible to the stock market... I can't find any reason why that would be a good idea.
There is one that particularly annoyed me this week. A couple of times I heard people saying the Bible indicates/implies that the stock market is going to crash soon and people should buy gold and go live in a bunker and raise chicken or something like that.
I read the Bible more or less in it's entirety - can't promise I didn't miss a verse or two - and never once have I seen anything mentioning the stock market. Nowhere that I could find in the Bible is there a date or a formula to calculate a date for the allegedly fall of the sock market soon. I don't never know what "soon" means in this context.
What upsets me it that even if most people will see right through this and maybe just laugh about it, there will always be a few that believe it, and the consequences could be devastating for them.
If people want to buy farms and produce their own food and stay away from the rest of the world, with their gold buried under a tree somewhere, that's their decision. Whatever makes them happy. But connecting the Bible to the stock market... I can't find any reason why that would be a good idea.