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Is the Church or Christianity a Socialist System?
There is no hope in the world or worldly systems. From what can be observed, human attempts to create the There is no implication here that is saying that free enterprise is the solution to the world's problems either. The only solution is the Kingdom of God and for the followers of Christ to begin to follow Christ. Righteousness that flows from the Spirit of God will cause peace and harmony, but the self-righteousness of the human upon which all such systems as socialism is based can only cause the judgments of God to fall on a nation. Some have implied that the commands of the Bible to take care of poor are to be carried out by the State and not by the Church. There are several reasons that this is a teaching of error. Socialism is a counterfeit of the Christians do not tax non-Christians from whom they extract money by coercion. That was never God’s order. That is not Scriptural. Christians are to reach into their own pockets. The tithes and the offerings are to be used, by the Church, not the Government, to help orphans and widows. One problem in the This system that Liberal Christianity endorses is known as Socialism. Socialism tends to result in totalitarianism and fascism, though Socialism always speaks of a great compassion. Socialism is, in fact, an economic system based in envy, not on compassion. The compassion of the Socialist tends to be a false compassion that is simply a method of gaining political power. headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/272005d.asp
Author/Compiler: Bob Stenson (unless otherwise noted) Last updated: 2008-10-18 08:35:14 |
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