If you are like me your e-mail is full of offers to make all kinds of money. They promise large quantities with little or no effort on your part. Most of us realize "you get what you pay for", so delete you them.
Sometimes in regular life there are things that happen where something different happens, like getting too much change back, or an item delivered to the wrong address. It was their mistake, so it is our profit right? WRONG! Well what if we don't know who to return it to or it is too far? Still wrong.
First, in the Psalms (24:1,50:2,89:11) three times it tells us that the earth and everything in it belongs to God. Since wisdom is His, then so is intellectual property and that includes video and software.
If we take possession of something that we were not legally entitled it is theft by receiving. Lets go to Deut. 22:1-3 and Ex.23:4. In those passages it speaks of "ox, sheep...or all lost things..."and making every effort to return or safely keep with the express plan of return to rightful owner. In case you didn't know most of Case Law in western society was based out of the Bible.
God obligates us to live honestly before all men (Rom.12:17). Ask your self, WHY WOULD THEY HEAR YOUR GOSPEL IF YOU LIE ABOUT OTHER THINGS?
Think of it this way, since the extra change or mistaken package actually belongs to God, do you realize He can come back later and collect His with interest, and He DOES know where to find you! Don't think that as a Christian He will overlook it, rather it is His children that He in fact will take to the woodshed. I am just advising you to take the softer route,
PLEASE!
It is two things really. Loving God with our whole heart and our fellow man as our self. Using as our own what is not our own is not love.
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