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ch ministries.org slash budget. So I had a question about interest bearing loans. My understanding

is that interest bearing loans between brothers is prohibited. If I put my money in a savings account and I'm getting 4% interest back,

am I just removing that responsibility from my loan because now the bank is then charging another

believer interest using my money?

You're not in charge of the bank and the bank is not a brother.

Well, what if the bank is being run by believers?

It's not a bank is an institution.

It's not the employees.

If an individual, we can have a discussion about an individual loaning and individual money,

but institutions don't have souls.

And I promise you, banks don't have souls.

Sure.

Right.

But then on the back end of that, if somebody goes to a bank, like if I were to go to a bank

and borrow money for a mortgage, I'm using the money of other believers.

Am I enabling them to charge?

How do you know that?

They didn't loan you the money, though.

Right.

The bank pooled a whole bunch of people's money,

and so I don't know who the money belongs to.

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