This is not a book about how to get rich, how to "fire" your boss, or how to retire at thirty-five on a diet of ramen and sheer willpower. There are plenty of gurus for that. This is a book about the Why.
We are going to look at the Bible's philosophy of money, but we're going to do it with a bit of a smirk. Why? Because when you really look at what we do for money-the things we buy to impress people we don't like, and the freedom we trade for objects that will eventually end up in a yard sale-it's actually quite funny. If we didn't laugh, we'd probably just sit in the dark and cry over our credit card statements.
The Anatomy of the Argument
The core of this book is built on a single, stinging observation from Proverbs: The borrower is slave to the lender.