The author forgot another morsel:
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Timothy 5:8
“If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever”
Most Freepers are not aware that Marx was a self confessed SATANIST! (Read his poetry)
SO no, there is nothing biblical about socialism, unless you are a useful idiot like the millions of Millennials and snowflakes that voted for Clinton.
Matthew 24 tells us believers whats coming.
I’m still trying to wrestle with competition and a desire to “win” being biblical.
(I’m no socialist by any means - see my post history - I’m just dying to reconcile my competitive spirit with Christianity - it’s one thing in sport, it’s entirely another with business and career objectives)
So Judas was the first socialist.
Matthew 26:11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.
Past experience has shown some poor folks who win lotteries will be eventually be bankrupt.
“Nearly 70% of lottery winners end up broke within seven years. Even worse, several winners have died tragically or witnessed those close to them suffer.”
Is Satan Biblical?
Jesus came to end socialism.
Socialism is the idea that resources should be procured from producers and redistributed to takers.
I don’t know of any place in the Bible Jesus suggested using the power of the state for charity.
He spoke at great length about YOU doing charity for HIM in HIS name. That requires personal responsibility, a concept the modern left is not comfortable.
Both God and Christ (after all, they are one in the same) are disinterested in the structures and affairs of men with men. They are disinterested in the form of legislatures, PTA groups, neighborhood groups, school boards, tax rates, public vs private schools, strong vs weak county executive forms, elected vs appointed school boards, minimum wages, free markets, government price controls, and all other structures and power of men among men.
God and Christ are solely interested in your acceptance and following and obedience, and your salvation.
To be sure, Jesus wants you to love your neighbor, and all but makes it a demand that you love your neighbor. I’ll concede to those who say this is a demand.
Nowhere in the Bible does God or Christ weigh-in on the matter (much less advocate) of the following:
— Neighbor A votes for politician P
— Who creates a state armed enforcement body
— And a state tax collection service
— And produces taxing legislation
— For the seizure of wealth + labor + property
— from Neighbors B, C, and also A (perhaps)
— And for further legislation
— which transfers this wealth, labor, and property
— to Neighbors D, E, F, G, H and returns some to C and A
— which in turn induces
— a standing political party
— which advocates compassion and kindness and Jesus
— and also the theft and confiscation of wealth
— albeit by popular vote
— which bases its power on the seizure of wealth,
property and labor from certain categories of
neighbors in order to transfer it to other
categories of neighbor
Jesus said zero about this.
In any event, Jesus was disinterested in this sort of thing, except that he was aware of and did not like persons who abused their power to steal from the weak and otherwise abuse the weak. The Democratic Party is an example of this exploitative villain. Socialism and its variants is the MO of the Dems.
Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even 'health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law II cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegation of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove. EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON." - Liberty Fund Library "A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation," edited by Thomas Mackay (1849 - 1912), Chapter 1
Heaven is a dictatorship where there is no private ownership of property.
But trying to recreate heaven on earth will always fail. Because apart from God there is no heaven.
Mathew 20:15
Don’t I have a right to do what I want with my own money.
No it isn’t, and even if it were, it would be wrong.
That verse is actually 2nd Thessalonians.
No. Proverbs is pretty clear about sloths and hard workers.