We awake from a disturbing dream and look around, feel the warmth of the bed, the calming familiarity of the night lights or the dawn, and we relax with a sigh. It was only a dream, very disturbing, but only a dream. We see the familiar furnishings, smell the coffee we brew, feel the hot water of the shower, and know that everything is good.
When the snake tempted Eve, it was with delicious fruit, which is good. From a beautiful tree, which is good. The tree of knowledge, and knowledge is good. Eve was tempted by things that were good. But they were forbidden by God. For reasons we do not know.
We understand that we do not know everything, probably cannot know everything. There are things we just do not know. Eve looked at the good she could experience. She did not consider the question farther.
Through usury we can have good things. We may not know why usury is wrong. We only look around and see good things. We can know that usury is forbidden by God. But we are surrounded by good things, why risk what is good?
Peace is good, if only metaphysical. We may very well enjoy the things we feel, smell, taste and hear, but our dreams may make us uneasy. We may lack peace on a metaphysical level, our psyche telling us something is wrong. Acted out in dreams. Maybe the dreams are an experience of reality on a metaphysical level, the truth behind the reality.
We do not know what we would see if we were usury-free. That is unknown. It takes an act of faith to move to usury free and an act of hope there will be good things with it. We just cannot know in advance.
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