In many Asian countries it is not unusual to be given a piece of paper with a number when you visit a bank. The number indicates your queue number. You wait for your number to be called and then conduct your banking transaction with the teller. You then sign in triplicate, show your government-approved identity card with your photo, signature and both your thumb prints. You then have to wait (….and wait) often at the mercy of the bank clerks and officials before you can get anything out of them. Hey, after all it is your money and they think they are doing you a favour.
I rarely go to the bank these days, I mean, to transact business across the counter. My bank counter is my PC. I login and check my bank balance, transfer funds, pay my bills, buy shares, buy forex, pay my taxes and juggle my money all online. I can’t tell you the colour of money because I am dealing in electronic or digital cash. My bank is no longer bricks and mortar but an e-bank – open all hours.
Some Christians find my behaviour somewhat unusual. I know of one Christian who worked very hard abroad to earn some money to buy a house. He and his wife didn’t trust even the brick bank. They put their packets of US Dollars under their bed. Sadly a burglar broke in and took the lot! I won’t tell you how much. There are others with theological backing for not using electronic banking. They forecast the coming of the antichrist who apparently will hold the reigns of the banking world and will cause the cash crisis. Of course you have heard of the mark of the beast, barcodes and 666 in my earlier posts as reasons for non-participation in and non-adoption of e-banking.
In reality, paper and coin money is disappearing. Many merchants and shopping malls don’t carry cold cash. They prefer all transactions to be made via Credit Card or EFTPOS. Even travellers cheques are on the way out. At the end of the day money is just a number representing a value and today that number and value is represented by 0 and 1 on a bank computer.
For me e-cash and e-banks offer me the security, instant access, instant transaction at any time or any place. Jesus once ran out of cash (Matt:17) so he used an EFTPOS machine to draw out some money. The fact was - that EFTPOS machine had a different design. The cold cash came out of the mouth of a fish!
Are you a cold cash person or a digital cash and e-banking person? What’s your theological view on electronic banking?
I rarely go to the bank these days, I mean, to transact business across the counter. My bank counter is my PC. I login and check my bank balance, transfer funds, pay my bills, buy shares, buy forex, pay my taxes and juggle my money all online. I can’t tell you the colour of money because I am dealing in electronic or digital cash. My bank is no longer bricks and mortar but an e-bank – open all hours.
Some Christians find my behaviour somewhat unusual. I know of one Christian who worked very hard abroad to earn some money to buy a house. He and his wife didn’t trust even the brick bank. They put their packets of US Dollars under their bed. Sadly a burglar broke in and took the lot! I won’t tell you how much. There are others with theological backing for not using electronic banking. They forecast the coming of the antichrist who apparently will hold the reigns of the banking world and will cause the cash crisis. Of course you have heard of the mark of the beast, barcodes and 666 in my earlier posts as reasons for non-participation in and non-adoption of e-banking.
In reality, paper and coin money is disappearing. Many merchants and shopping malls don’t carry cold cash. They prefer all transactions to be made via Credit Card or EFTPOS. Even travellers cheques are on the way out. At the end of the day money is just a number representing a value and today that number and value is represented by 0 and 1 on a bank computer.
For me e-cash and e-banks offer me the security, instant access, instant transaction at any time or any place. Jesus once ran out of cash (Matt:17) so he used an EFTPOS machine to draw out some money. The fact was - that EFTPOS machine had a different design. The cold cash came out of the mouth of a fish!
Are you a cold cash person or a digital cash and e-banking person? What’s your theological view on electronic banking?
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