Posted on 03/30/2010 6:40:29 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
"THERE is a God; this is worth checking out," says Glenn Stevens, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). But God may not be omnipotent, for God was not responsible for the global financial crisis, Mr Stevens told Wesley Mission's Easter Breakfast today.
Mr Stevens spoke of how his faith influenced his daily life and his role at the RBA.
The governor, a regular churchgoer in southern Sydney who directs and plays guitar in the church band, said his faith was part of who he was.
"If you're a Christian, God has given you certain capabilities to do a job, to earn a living," he said.
"The Bible teaches that you should do that as if you were doing that for Him, because you are, and that's my attitude."
Mr Stevens said he did not subscribe to theories that the global downturn was a sign of God.
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"What we've learned is something that we know or should have known all along, which is that market economies are characterised by cycles, that human behaviour is characterised by alternately greed and fear," he said.
"Therefore, economic systems are occasionally prone to this kind of instability.
"It's always been that way and it always will be."
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God is Omnipotent, but he has given man free will and dominion over the earth including responsibility for government and social justice.
God intervenes sometimes, but if he intervened all the time, it would be hard to say we really had free will.
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