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Originally Posted by Draught Horse  Creating money ex nihilo is today's equivalent of debasing currency. In bible times it was putting other alloys into the gold/silver, making it cheaper (and buy less).
What Vic alluded to is a form of inflation--debasing the currency. So yes, indirectly, it is sinful. |
Exactly. Diluting money is the same as debasing currency which is the same as using unjust measures. That is an abomination according to God:
Deu 25:13-15: Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Pro 20:10: Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Mic 6:11-12: Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.