Once money became the marker, indebtedness took on new forms. The first interest bearing loans developed in Mesopotamia and do you know what quickly followed: declarations of debt freedom. In Biblical times, it was called the Law of Jubilee. And many of us still live with the thought that our lives are the real principal in the debt equation. being free of debt would in many instances be a relief or would it push us to a point where we feel superior to the rest of the “tribe”?