Debt

Today, men are not social slaves, but thousands allow ambition to enslave them to debt. 69:8.10

In the Urantia Book

Early creditors controlled body after death (69:5.8)

• secret societies were employed by merchants to collect debts 70:7.18
• governments may not incur debt in continental nation that is the most developed in a neighboring planet (72:7.3,7)

Jesus gave two parables about debt:

• * the parable of the moneylender, about what is the greatest love 147:5.4
• * the parable of the shrewd steward, on how one must show sagacity and friendship with eternal things to prepare for the future 169:2

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Parable of two debtors 147:5.4 — Lk 7:39-48.