They [the ten commandments] are economically applicable,
Posted on 07/07/2015 5:02:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jimmuh Carter Suuuuper genius:
http://www.google.com/search?q=George+Ball+Carter+Shah+Ayatollah+Iran+Cyclone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
That Jimmy Carter?
Oops
Jimmy doesn’t know Jesus Christ [very well].
Jesus Christ is God. (John 1)
He changes not. (Malachi 3)
He spake Leviticus 20:13 which is eternal.
No, He wouldn’t...but he turned water into wine...into the GOOD wine....what you think about that Ciaphas?
I think it was rather illustrative that the Corporate Headquarters for Ameriquest’s wine-press were across the street from the In Car Worship screen at the Crystal Cathedral branch of Name it and Claim it, Inc.
That’s what I think C. Edumbund Nebuchadnezzar.
In other words, you think Jesus was wrong to turn the water into the good wine....to serve to guests who were already tipsy.....as well as the Founding Fathers to think their Divine Inspiration about a free market society was correct.
Glad you admit that you think yourself above Jesus and the Founders. That’s scary dude.
What are you babbling about? You been into the wine too much tonight Ciaphas?
Rev 18:2-3 "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. 3 the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
NIV Name it and Claim it, C. Edumbund Nebuchadnezzar.
It’s really odd that you brought up “name it and claim it” - because I surely didn’t, and I surely never have bought into that. It’s just like your lies about RINO and so on.
But since you have still not answered a single question, I’ll ask two more again. Did Jesus make a mistake turning the water into the good wine.....and did the Founding Fathers mis what God was leading them to do when setting up a Constitution and Bill of Rights where a free market system was the only possible economic system?
One sure sign of faith immaturity is trying to use single scriptures in mis applications to try and prove an irrelevant point. Your conflation of free markets and greed is something I would expect from an indoctrinated middle schooler, or this naive Pope, or an MSNBC commentator.
Your conflation of crony capitalism with free markets simply proves this. Your lack of comprehension that someone can operate in the free market driven by the higher instincts, not the lower instincts, speaks volumes about either your economic failure or you are projecting your own lower instincts. Or both .
And again, you have failed in answering a single question. You are not some shaman sitting on a mountain sending down pearls of wisdom. Far from it.
The Founders understood that property rights and free markets were constitutive elements of what it means to be free. They therefore believed that government has a responsibility to protect the rights of all to participate in the economy by upholding contracts, lifting artificial trade barriers, and protecting the right to acquire, possess, and freely use property.
>>It’s really odd that you brought up “name it and claim it”
Not odd at all. Worshiping the “new wine” instead of obeying the one who made it is a symptom of the (false) “Prosperity Gospel”.
http://9marks.org/article/journalprosperity-gospel-and-biblical-theology/
Isa 5:8-11 8
and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land. 9
"Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants. 10 11
NIV
Your most infantile quality...and you have many...is this idea that every time I mention something that I worship it. That’s really too stupid for words. Then you multiply your intellectual and spiritual crime by saying that these things are worshipped above all else, or are instead of worship of God.
You are the legalists legalist...you are a pharisee stuck in the law, the Old Testament. Maybe you should go read that other Covenant.
And again, you haven’t answered my two questions because YOU CANNOT ANSWER THEM.
You are the legalists legalist...you are a pharisee stuck in the law, the Old Testament. Maybe you should go read that other Covenant.
Mark 10:21-22
21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."22
At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
NIV
Again, one verse out of context, and proves nothing. And you are a hypocrite of course...because you haven’t done that.
Evangelical witchcraft on display.
They [the ten commandments] are economically applicable,
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 2
NIV
I’ll type very slowly so you can follow:
The Ten Commandments do address how we as individuals should steward our property. Thus, they are “applicable” to the economy in a micro sense. In fact, off top of my head, I think every single time the Bible mentions wealth or property or gold - it is talking about how we should as individuals steward it.
This does not, however, constitute a system in the Macro sense. In fact, the only way to steward the money and property in a way that’s Biblical is to have a free system, a market system. That’s also the only way our Constitution and Bill of Rights can operate as well.
I’m not sure why you have this huge blind spot, the difference between individual Commandments and a total system, but you surely do.
And again, you’ve not answered a single question, because you CANNOT DO SO.
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