know the future, and our willingness to take risk. From this created foundation by God’s grace humans have developed the modern financial institutions of currencies, financial intermediaries, financial instruments, and financial prices or interest rates.34 God provided the financial realm of creation as one way to obey his biblical imperatives of stewardship, justice, and love. What does finance have to do with these biblical imperatives? God’s stewardship mandate is to develop his creation from
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