Filing Bankruptcy Is Not A Sin
This is from the "Ask Pat" link on the CBN Homepage.
The question posed to Pat was this: Is it a sin to file... bankruptcy?
Pat Robertson:
First of all, you've got your life ahead of you and you've got to get
yourself together....you can do it without giving up your home and
everything else. There's no need in beggaring yourself on these matters....However, all of this depends on your earning capacity. In the Old Testament, they had the Year of Jubilee where debts were canceled... There's nothing sinful about bankruptcy....
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True Story:
I have filed for several ministers and discussed with them their thoughts on filing bankruptcy. We discussed that in the old testament, there was forgiveness of debt every 7 years, and that if we still did that today there would be no need to file, but since we don’t do that, they felt like they had to.
I have had ministers bring their parishioners to me because, after the minister had counseled with the person it was clear that the only solution was to file a bankrutpy, and so the minister brought the person to me personally. I met with the person in debt and the mister together. They had prayed about it and decided that bankruptcy was the right answer.
Richard West
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