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Biblical Economics: Jesus Supports Private Charity and Personal Responsibility, Not Government Handouts
By Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor
The election of Pope Francis has created some questions about the direction Pope Francis will take the Catholic Church, especially what kind of “reforms” he should or shouldn’t undertake.
On that note, one of the more interesting facts about the new Pope’s election was the reason he took the name Francis, per the famous priest, St. Francis of Assisi. In deciding to pick that name, the new Pope said he recalled a fellow priest telling him to remember the poor, as the apostles instructed St. Paul in Galatians 2:10.
That brings up an important question that’s right now occupying America’s political leaders in Washington, D.C., as they engage in vigorous debates over the federal budget:
What is the right way to remember the poor?
Well, nowhere in the New Testament documents, or the other books of the Bible, do Jesus Christ, His apostles, God the Father, the Holy Spirit, Moses, or the Hebrew prophets command the government to take money from its citizens and transfer it to poor people. In fact, the Bible says just the opposite.
Thus, God presents us with three general ways in the Bible to take care of the poor and needy: 1) Through the family; 2) Through the church; and, 3) Through individual charity. The applicable passages for these three ways are Deut. 14:28, 29, Numbers 18:24, Matthew 6:1-4 and 1 Timothy 5:3-16.
The first two ways are pretty clear. People’s first obligation is to the needy, poor, widowed, and orphaned in their own families. Only after they do this do they have any obligation to help the needy, poor, widowed, and orphaned through their local church organization. God established the pattern for this kind of church giving in Numbers 18:24 and Deuteronomy 14:28, 29. As David Chilton points out in his great book “Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators,” the bulk of Christian giving to the local church should be geared toward financing professional theologians, experts in biblical law and church discipline, teachers of God’s Word, the Bible, and leaders skilled in worship. It was only every third year that all the giving was set aside to help the needy, poor, widowed, and orphaned. Even then, the money wasn’t given just to anyone who showed up. Those able to work, but who refuse to work, don’t qualify for any help! Also, those who have families to take care of them don’t qualify, nor do widows under age 60 qualify, according to the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 5:3-16.
Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh, talks about the third way in Matthew 6. He tells His listeners that they should give individual charity. He also says they should give such charity secretly: “Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”
In other words, Jesus isn’t a socialist. Nor is he a liberal. In fact, in none of the Bible passages just cited, nor in any others, does Jesus, God, or even Moses cite the government as the means by which the poor, needy, disabled, widowed, and orphaned are housed, clothed, and fed.
In other words, Jesus Christ and the first Christian leaders who met him support individual private charity and personal responsibility, not government handouts!
Thus, a simple, straightforward reading of the Bible, God’s Word, including the “Red Letter” words of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, clearly shows that the American welfare state is Anti-Christian and Anti-Biblical. Any Christian who advocates such a government welfare system (including clergymen or women) should be harshly rebuked. Furthermore, any members of any political party, including Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Communists, or whatever, who advocate such a socialist system yet claim to be Christian should be reprimanded by their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and by all church leaders.
If any such party members refuse to repent and change their ways in this matter, then their names should be posted at their church and throughout the whole land so that all Christians in the United States can know not to vote for these people or place them in positions of authority and leadership. Of course, all Christians should encourage families to take care of their own. Also, they should also encourage their churches to give at least one-third of their charitable donations to help the poor, needy, widowed, and orphaned.
On that note, it’s interesting to recall that the Tenth Commandment in Exodus 20:17 actually protects private property by commanding people not to covet their neighbor’s house or belongings. That commands applies to the average citizen as well as the elected official, the judge, and all other government officials.
Furthermore, the Bible condemns laziness and praises hard work. Proverbs 10:4 says, “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.” Proverbs 14:23 says, “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.”
Finally, it’s instructive to note that, in Mark 7:20-23, not only does Jesus Christ declare that all sex outside of heterosexual marriage, including homosexuality, pre-marital sex, and adultery, is evil, he also declares that both greed and envy are evil. Thus, Jesus Christ condemns both the greed of the rich man as well as the greed of the poor man, and the envy of the poor man as well as the envy of the rich man.
In fact, if He were to appear to us now, Jesus probably would condemn the “politics of envy” of the left, including President Obama’s multiple “class warfare” attacks on private property. He would also extol the virtues of hard work, thrift, and capitalist empowerment, not just the value of charity!
Liberals and socialists like President Barack Obama, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Democratic Party leader Harry Reid are clearly violating the commands of Jesus Christ, who is God in the Flesh. They are also violating the commands that God gives all of us in the Hebrew Scriptures as well. If they truly wanted to follow the words of Jesus in the New Testament, they should stop their opposition to the conservative movement to reduce unwarranted government intrusion into our private lives and join it. One of the first things they would do immediately is help eliminate ALL government programs for the poor.
Government aid to the poor isn’t only Anti-Christian and Anti-Biblical. It’s also Anti-American and unconstitutional. This is exactly what the future President, James Madison, the “father” of the constitution, told Congress on Feb. 6, 1792:
“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. . . . Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundation, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.” – James Madison, The Papers of James Madison, Vol. 14 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), pages 223-224.
Christians must stop the Anti-Christian, Anti-American, ungodly, immoral, and unconstitutional financial rape of American citizens by the totalitarian, socialist welfare politicians and fatcat bureaucrats! They must establish a proper and godly system of family, church, and private charity divorced from government. Not just Christians, but all true Americans, should follow God’s clear guidance in this matter. God will reward them mightily for their obedience in these matters.
President Obama Wants a Balanced Plan? Here’s One for Ya!!!
By Dr. Tom Snyder
President Obama keeps saying he wants a “balanced” plan to replace the “sequestration” deal he engineered with the Republicans that reduces government spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years.
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Gun Control, Disarmament and the Threat of Genocide
Prepared and written by:
Dr. Jason J. Campbell:
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In their 1994 book, Lethal Laws: Gun Control is Key to Genocide,
Simkin, Zelman and Rice argue that, “governments cannot commit genocide except on effectively disarmed populations.”
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Christian Duty Under Corrupt Government
By Ted R. Weiland
“We’ll start off the new year with an even higher law than the Constitution- G.M.
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Not Yours to Give
Speech before the House of Representatives
by David (Davy) Crockett
Editor’s note: David Crockett, perhaps best known for his role in the 1836 defense of the Alamo, also served three terms in the United States Congress between 1827 and 1835. The following excerpt from an 1884 biography by Edward S. Ellis, The Life of Colonel David Crockett, reveals how his electorate taught him the importance of adhering to the Constitution and the perils of ignoring its restrictions.
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More Lies from the Huff. Post: Blogger Slanders Renowned Christian Evangelist
By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher, and Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor of www.movieguide.org
Huffington Post blogger, screenwriter and politically correct Kevin Miller has slandered renowned Christian evangelist Jerry Newcombe. In a radio appearance and in some articles, Newcombe opined that evildoers who massacre innocent people, like the killer who recently shot up a midnight showing of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, seem to have no fear of Hell.
Newcombe complained that people today have no fear of God or Hell because today’s society has rejected the Christian, biblical doctrine of Hell where Jesus and His apostles clearly say that those who reject Christ will have to pay for their evil sins by suffering eternal damnation in Hell. Read the rest of this entry »
DNA: Proof That Life Begins At Conception!
By Glen James, Contributing Writer
While reading one of my regular news sites recently I ran across a reference to a blog post on another site advising “progressives” to fight against current and upcoming pro-life legislation and its supporters by “framing” the discussion in terms that would create a more favorable perception of abortion. What the author describes is an attempt at a systematic denial that human life actually Read the rest of this entry »
An Open Letter to General Mills
1151 Avenida Acaso, Camarillo, California 93012 Phone: 805.383-2000 Fax: 805.383.4089
Ken Powell
General Mills, Inc.
P.O. Box 9452
Minneapolis, MN 55440
Dear Ken,
As a former LSA at the U.S. Attorney’s Office SDNY and publisher of MOVIEGUIDE(r) which reaches millions, I am appalled at your insensitivity, bigotry and antagonism to faith and values when you opposed preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman in Minnesota. In spite of the fact that you will get the support of the anti-faith bullies who have attacked faith and values, you will lose the support of millions who support the natural family by excluding them in such a misguided manner.
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Out of Control
Out of Control
By Jerrol LeBaron
When Congress can add hundreds of pages to a bill in the middle of the night and pass it the next morning…when Congress can bundle bills the way investment firms bundle securities…when self-serving special interests are allowed to have an exorbitant amount of influence over the laws that are passed, it is time to do something about it.
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