It is also against the Bible to charge usury on any loan and that every seven years a loan is forgiven. I wonder if I can get a Christian Loan?
No, you can’t get a Christian loan because Christianity is not an officially recognized minority of any kind.
Half sarcastic and half serious here -— we keep hearing that the foreclosure problems are worst for minorities, lower income, yadda, yadda, yadda. Why doesn’t the Rev. Al Sharpton and his boys come up with something like an Islamic mortgage to re-finance everybody? They would be doing something productive in the minority community that allegedly is discriminated against, and help people retain ownership of homes. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson could buy up these bad mortages and refinance them.
“It is also against the Bible to charge usury on any loan and that every seven years a loan is forgiven. I wonder if I can get a Christian Loan?”
But then in the Year of Jubilee, you’d have to give the house back.
Leviticus 25:13 (New International Version)
13 “ ‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property.