Actually, the attempt to associate material goods with evil is an extension of the spirit of Antichrist, which denies that Christ has come in the flesh (1 John 4:3). But the “redemption” of material goods is absolutely necessary, for they are active realities in the created world. And their redemption is to be carried out by our possessing them in submission to God, as the redemption of the body is to be carried out by submitting the bodily members to righteousness.
