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**Petwrenny** · 02-03-2010, 06:51 PM

Is it ok if I reverse the question?

Is it a sin to love your job, your science too much? The obvious answer is "yes, if you love it more than God". But I see more and more -especially in these days with financial problems- people to be too consumed with what they do for a living and how successful they are. I don't mean generally people but orthodox christians, mostly men. If their proffession has to do with science then it is twice difficult for them NOT to be obsessed with it.

I was thinking of how our job define us and I read last night at Thessalonians 5:11-12 and that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we commanded you;
in order that you may walk honestly toward those who are without, and that you may have lack of nothing. So that is all to it?

Panayota

02-03-2010, 06:51 PM	#4
Petwrenny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	Is it ok if I reverse the question? Is it a sin to love your job, your science too much? The obvious answer is "yes, if you love it more than God". But I see more and more -especially in these days with financial problems- people to be too consumed with what they do for a living and how successful they are. I don't mean generally people but orthodox christians, mostly men. If their proffession has to do with science then it is twice difficult for them NOT to be obsessed with it. I was thinking of how our job define us and I read last night at Thessalonians 5:11-12 and that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we commanded you; in order that you may walk honestly toward those who are without, and that you may have lack of nothing. So that is all to it? Panayota
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