Romans 13:8 says, “Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
“Owe no man anything … . ” I believe that this Scripture doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t buy something on credit, or buy something on time. The word owe in this verse simply means “not being obligated to any man, other than to love him.” The only obligation you have to that man is to love that man in God. You don’t always have to like the person, but you can love him. You don’t have to like him to love him. “Owe no man anything …. ”
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Some Christians have taken the above Scripture to mean this: “I can’t buy anything on time or on credit. I shouldn’t buy furniture, or a house, or a car, or clothes, or anything on credit.” Some will even go so far as to say, “To buy on credit is to use the world’s system, and that we should not be involved in the world’s system.”
Consider this. You put your money in the bank. You don’t bury it in tin cans in your back yard. The banks are a part of the world’s system. You use banks, don’t you? and checks? When you go somewhere you ride in an automobile don’t you, or do you still have a donkey pulling a cart behind you? Automobiles are a part of the world’s system. If you go from one continent to another, you usually go by boat, or by airplane, you don’t swim, do you? Well, riding in airplanes is a part of the world’s system.
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“What do you mean by the world’s system?”
It means the way the world does it. If you are not going to use the world’s system, you are going to have to stop wearing clothes, stop getting your hair cut, stop shaving, stop using electric lights in your house. Electric lights are a part of the world’s system. Are you seeing anything here? It is really ridiculous to say, “I’m not going to do this, because that’s the world’s system.” You would have to stop doing a whole lot of things. The difference is this: Christians operate from the undergirding of God’s Word, whereas the world operates from the undergirding of what they can figure out in their heads. That makes the difference. I can use the same things that the world uses, but I can use them in the power of God, and produce the God kind of results. It is the world’s system to plant crops: where do you pull your crops from? Out of the air? No! We depend on crops too. We are still operating in the world’s system, so just to say, “the world’s system,” can be misleading unless you qualify what you mean by it.
