[grip_daddy]

Old is gold. Dig into OT and get some cool advice about lost property whose original owner is in question. Rhymes with option two. Nonetheless I follow option one most of the time, but for such a large sum of money, I wouldn't risk, who knows if it's not a set up.

[Kabunja wa Gathuita]

Originally Posted by rayfisher

A woman walks into her appartment and while inside the lift she sees an envelope stuffed with cash amounting to 3000 usd.The envelope had no name and address.

Her reaction
1. She assumes thats her prayers has been answered and takes the money.She has been through a financial drought,had been praying to get money,she tried borrowing but turned down severally by close friends,has two month rent arrears and being a single mother who has two kids waiting to join school next month.

2. Facing same financial scenario as above nonetheless She reports the incident to the care-taker with intensions of giving the money back.

Whats your view?What would be the right thing to do?

Just take the money and go!

[Kabunja wa Gathuita]

Originally Posted by rayfisher

A woman walks into her appartment and while inside the lift she sees an envelope stuffed with cash amounting to 3000 usd.The envelope had no name and address.

Her reaction
1. She assumes thats her prayers has been answered and takes the money.She has been through a financial drought,had been praying to get money,she tried borrowing but turned down severally by close friends,has two month rent arrears and being a single mother who has two kids waiting to join school next month.

2. Facing same financial scenario as above nonetheless She reports the incident to the care-taker with intensions of giving the money back.

Whats your view?What would be the right thing to do?

Just take the money and go!

[robertirina]

ray jambo, am a new chappy in this forum but i would to comment on this issue.that woman was right to pick that envelope.as matter of fact she did not know what was in but after opening,she found it was cash .so what is wrong with that..chakuokota si cha kuiba ,mwenye mali ndio mjinga!

[ATLian]

If you're about to lose your apartment, you and your kids will wind up on the streets homeless, your kids need food, drugs, clothes, your car needs fixing, etc etc etc - and you find $3,000, you need to keep it. It's one thing finding $3,000 in your office ama in a friends place - coz you can quickly pinpoint who it belongs to. But if you find it when walking around a public place, I say finders-keepers, especially if you desperately need the money.

The money thing brings up interesting questions. If you desperately needed a lot of money (say, $250,000 so your dad can undergo some emergency medical procedures without which he will surely die), and Osama bin Laden (he is a multi-millionaire) offered you the money, would you take it?

[lavidanor]

Originally Posted by jaramba

Remember you give to charity when you have surplus.

@Jaramba, you don't only give when you have surplus. The Bible applauds sacrificial giving (Mark 12:41-43); (2 Corinthians 8:1-5); (1 Kings 17:10-14), etc.

@ATLian, I would only refuse money from Osama if he aquired the money through murdering people, or if it is from drugs, and the likes. Or if he is giving me money with strings attached, for example to buy my conscience. Since Osama's source of wealth is oil, I think there would be nothing wrong taking the money--but there must not be any strings attached.

[bible_reader]

The money thing brings up interesting questions. If you desperately needed a lot of money (say, $250,000 so your dad can undergo some emergency medical procedures without which he will surely die), and Osama bin Laden (he is a multi-millionaire) offered you the money, would you take it?[/quote]

Osama's money is blood money,he killed ,slaughterred and maimed and he is yet to repent his sinful deeds,i believe accepting money from such a person is complicity to his crimes.

A fervent pray of a righteous man or woman is able to heal your ailing father and get all his sins forgiven.

[ATLian]

@ATLian, I would only refuse money from Osama if he aquired the money through murdering people, or if it is from drugs, and the likes. Or if he is giving me money with strings attached, for example to buy my conscience. Since Osama's source of wealth is oil, I think there would be nothing wrong taking the money--but there must not be any strings attached.

I think Osama's family's money is from construction (although I'm sure the family has diversified interests in oil too).

You have an interesting argument. Osama is responsible for killing the 200+ people when he had his men bomb the US embassy in Kenya. But he didn't make his money through killing people. Therefore you're OK taking the money.

But if Osama was a hitman, and he killed just 1 person and was paid for that one job, then you wouldn't take the money.

What's the difference?