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 Our Jobs, Businesses and Investments God is introduced to us in Genesis 1:1 as One who is working and investing: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The rest of Genesis 1 and 2 detail His work, which includes creation of the first human, Adam. In keeping with His culture of work, God put Adam in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and watch over it. He also instructed Adam to name the animals. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is at work as a carpenter, and after He was accused by the Jewish leaders for healing the paralytic at the pool of Bethesda on a Sabbath day, He said: “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working” (John 5:17). Apostle Paul, who wrote majority of the epistles in the New Testament, was a tentmaker and used his trade to support his ministry. The importance of work is found in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” God made humans in His image and after His likeness, which includes a drive for work....