Who's Your Accountant?

Imagine for a moment that you have received some significant insight about God or life which will definitely benefit other people who hear it. Now consider three possible scenarios for sharing that insight.

Scenario 1: Your name is attached to it (so you get personal credit), and it reaches a total of one thousand people.

Scenario 2: It circulates anonymously (so no one gets credit), and it reaches one million people.

Presumably, you would rather benefit a million people, even if it means you don’t get credit, right? But let’s see if your principles hold up under:

Scenario 3: Someone plagiarizes it as his own (thereby getting the credit for himself), but it reaches one billion people.

Would you still choose to benefit the maximum number of people?

Finally, just to put all of this in perspective, no one knows for sure who wrote the Book of Hebrews. No one except God, that is.

Plagiarism is the gravest of sins mostly to people who don’t trust God to do their accounting.