CCMJ Appraisal one month on: Only 38 responses received to date. Please at least acknowledge or ask to be removed from association through the elist.  One particularly precise response is appended below. It comes from a newly associating friend in the USA who leads a diligent drive to awaken Christians to the enduring wisdom and the urgent need for acknowledgement and action on the societal erosion by the evils of usury.  He discovered us through www.ccmj.org – our not very well attuned or updated site – any offers to help ? Peter <peterchallen@gmail.com>

Received APPRAISAL COMMENT …
My primary interest is WITNESS RE: USURY – the many distortions of interest; define effective thrusts.
1)  Compound Interest drives economic disparity: mathematical analysis by Olivier Lietard exists (olietard@aol.com ) Unpublished summary.
2) USURY is objectively wrong; see logical argument below (☆).
3) Witness as BOTH SOCIETAL salvation as well as personal salvation, each calling to repentance AND redemption, each expressed as manifestations AND proclamations. What poverty alleviation MEANS might Christians select as experiential learning steps, toward witness to God’s ENDS of His coming Kingdom?  e.g. reference FileName: Disclosure Document – Fikkert – FINAL_19OCT2016, Redeeming INTEREST by Ray Foss.pdf
4) Begin drafting a formal such written confession for discussion. e.g.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Confessions

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☆ Biblical Logic Opposing USURY

If there is no God, then there is no objective right and wrong.
If God does exist, opinion s are not authoritative, else
humankind’s power (desire) is determinative; what does
God think on the issue? Christians say, look to Biblical veracity.

(1) We are all obligated to live into God’s will/justice.
(2) God’s will/justice is expressed in the Bible.
(3) Bible opposes mammon[1] including usury and usurious behavior.
(4) Therefore, the practice of usury is against God’s will, or is objectively wrong.

To resist this reasoning, one must deny either that
(2) God’s will/justice is expressed in the Bible. Or else deny that
(3) the Bible opposes mammon including usury and usurious behavior.
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▪ http://biblehub.com/matthew/6-24.htm
[1]  Matthew 6:24 – You cannot be the slave of two masters!  You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to one than [to] the other. You cannot serve both God and money [i.e. “mammon” as riches, or anything in which you trust and on which you rely; per Amplified Bible]. (the poverty and justice bible, biblesociety.org.uk; contemporary English version 2008)