Jesus Would Not Support Modern Day Socialism

It has been the aim of the Democrat party since they lost the Presidential election in 2004 to subvert the Christian doctrine with the claim that Jesus was a Socialist. Their goal is to convince Christians that their Social agenda is morally equivalent with the teachings and life of Jesus Christ. They even went so far as to create handbooks to be distributing to pastors of churches that will show them how to use various Bible verses to promote what they call "Christian Socialism." Taking this into consideration, it shouldn't surprise anyone that many Christians across America were fooled into voting for Obama in 2008.

Add that to the vast amount of Americans who have a limited knowledge of history and hardly no Biblical knowledge, it is not surprising that many have fallen for the misinformation on what Jesus taught (and for whom the teachings were given). These Biblical revisionists have become especially adept at cherry picking Scripture to suit their agenda. Hence, many have come to misunderstand the gospel of Christ by equating it with modern day Socialism.

My first point of contention with the idea that Christ was a socialist, is His teachings and the example of His life. Throughout the time that Christ lived with His disciples, He never worked. Instead he was dependent upon the charity and good hearts of those who surrounded Him. Now that is not to say Jesus was lazy or a bum either. Jesus was always about His Fathers business, and that business was the salvation of mankind.You will find nowhere in the Scriptures, Jesus telling His followers to rely upon those who are not willing to hear the gospel or share what they have. If the people refused to hear

If he tells everyone that they will surely die if they choose not to follow him isn’t that sort of coercing them.

No more so than if I were to tell you, as you approached a cliff that, if you continue on your path over that cliff, 'ye shall surely die'...

You are answering a weeks old thread. I have not the time to go back and find what a wrote beside the snippet you posted.

Try to keep up to date.

The economic system that is compatible with God-given human nature, God-given natural rights, and the Biblical concept of justice, is free enterprise, market economy, and capitalism.

That is almost true - but in the prophetic words of Bob Dylan, 'You've got to serve somebody'. America is only great when America is good. And that good comes from the voluntary service that comes from the heart of her citizens, and *not* from the dictates of her government. That has historically come from the Judeo-Christian Ethic that American thought necessarily begins with. Take that ethic away (which is exactly what is happening to us) and the whole thing must necessarily come tumbling down:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -John Adams

"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." -James Madison "The Father of Our Constitution"

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