Is the Bible Value-Neutral Toward Competition?

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Beed, Clive and Beed, Cara. (2015). Is the Bible Value-Neutral Toward Competition? Transformation. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378814558450
AuthorsBeed, Clive and Beed, Cara
Abstract

Competition is pervasive in modern society, affecting work, education, and recreation. The question arises whether competition is consistent with scriptural teaching. The context for this enquiry is that Christians today disagree among themselves about whether Scripture has any normative content relating to competition. Some view competition as incompatible with Scripture, while for others it is compatible. On the basis of a given definition of competition, Christian contributions to the debate in the last decade are reviewed. Only six inputs were discovered (involving seven authors), with five arguing that Scripture takes no normative position toward competition. Most of this article is taken up with evaluating their cases that are found to be unpersuasive. A sixth paper claims that Scripture is incompatible with competition, examined in the penultimate section. From reviewing the six contributions to the debate, the conclusion is that that Scripture does not have a favorable attitude toward competition.

KeywordsBible; competition; interpretation; value-neutral
Year2015
JournalTransformation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378814558450
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