Survey: Bible reading tied to financial success

[Dos Equis]

Survey: Bible reading tied to financial success
People with daily Scriptures habit have less debt, give more
Posted: July 09, 2010
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Reading the Bible daily turns out to be wise financial advice, according to a new Pew survey.

The more faithful someone is in their Bible reading, the less debt that person is likely to have, the View from the Pew study concluded.

More than 1,000 Christian households participated in the second annual View from the Pew surveys, a collaborative research project by the ministry Maximum Generosity and Christianity Today International, a leading evangelical magazine publisher.

The study showed people who consistently read their Bible have smaller mortgage and car payments and fewer unpaid credit cards.

Brian Kluth, a pastor and author writing for the evangelical Assist News Service, pointed to two reasons Bible readers fair better financially.

"The first reason would be that discipline in one's spiritual life often leads to greater disciplines in other areas of one's life, including how someone manages their finances," he wrote.
 
"The second reason is that those who consistently spend time in the Scriptures are tapping into God's wisdom and guidance for their daily financial decisions."

The survey showed daily Bible readers are more than twice as likely to give 10 percent or more of their income to their church and other Christian ministries.

Kluth said that while people might be inclined to think that amount of wealth would determine the level of giving, "it is actually a person's spiritual discipline and biblical convictions that determines if someone will be a faithful and generous giver."

"Daily Bible reading leads people to a conviction that God is their true provider and they are to be generous with whatever resources God entrusts to them during their lifetime," he said.

Kluth is the author of the best-selling 40 Day Bible devotional, with more than 400,000 copies in print.

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[Mr. Magoo]

I just read the first two lines

how do they know its not about organization in one's life?

If someone does read their bible daily, chances are they lead a very organized life and have things in order

if someone never gets around to reading their bible, their life is more out of order

i dont see causation here

[Dos Equis]

I just read the first two lines

how do they know its not about organization in one's life?

If someone does read their bible daily, chances are they lead a very organized life and have things in order

if someone never gets around to reading their bible, their life is more out of order

i dont see causation here

I doubt you'll see causation or anything else if you only read the first two lines. 

[Mr. Magoo]

I doubt you'll see causation or anything else if you only read the first two lines. 

fine, i read the rest of it

i still see no causation

[Dos Equis]

fine, i read the rest of it

i still see no causation

Well at least you have a more informed opinion now.   

There are two things that the Bible teaches that could lead to financial success:  tithing and staying out of debt.  It's possible people who read the Bible apply these principles. 

[Straw Man]

how did they arrive at the conclusion of "financial success"

Maybe as a group they make less money and therefore have smaller mortgage and auto payments

[ToxicAvenger]

i once read a similar survey that proved that belief in mohammed tied to explosive success


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[Agnostic007]

Off the top of my head I can envision how this could  be true. Statistically, the lower the education you have, the more likely you are to be Christian. If you sampled 1000 Christians living at poverty level for example, you would find many don't qualify for new car loans, nor do they get credit cards. Many live pay day to pay day in apartments or small, dilapidated houses.  Now I will admit this is an extreme example, i.e. saying that many believers live in cheap houses (Smaller mortgage) don't have car loans because they drive 1980 Plymouth sedans, and don't qualify for credit cards.. but it is an example of how data can be presented in whatever light you wish it to be shown in.. and since this was done by an evangelistic organization, bias is probably present.