Tones,
Jesus is God and he doesn't care what economic system you like. All He cares about is that you obey the 10 Commandments. Do that and the world would prosper and there would be peace.
STEVE RAY HERE:
Girard, wouldn’t that be nice if everyone would just love each other and love God and obey the commandments. However, that’s not gonna happen because we live in a fallen world full of sinners and therefore we need governments and justice” in prisons and we do have to pick a governmental system that best protect human life and freedom.
If that’s all it took them the Bible would just be promoting no government and people are being the Commandments but even among the Jews there was a very strict governmental form and punishment for those who broke the laws. We cannot be naïve and we live in the real world.
The only place where socialism has worked is at the monastery that makes and sells Christmas fruitcakes and even there they have to adhere to the laws of classical economics or they will go broke.
One of Jesus’ greatest Commandments to His followers is to love Him through caring for the poor! If they do not, Jesus says He will burn them in hell! I figure that God’s Commanded tithe on our 2 billion Christians of today, would be about a trillion dollars a year. I think a trillion dollars a year from Christ’s Church on earth would abolish poverty in the world today. I estimate our 2 billion Christians only give about 10 or 20 billion dollars a year to help the poor on earth. I estimate that our 2 billion Christians on earth today, genocide tens of millions of poor Lazerus’s a year through lack of proper Christian tithing (LUKE 16:19 The Rich Man and Lazarus).
Note:
Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29) American Taxpayers donate a trillion dollars to our domestic poor and 48 billion to foreign aid, per year.
MATTHEW 25:41
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink…
…’Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’ And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.’
STEVE RAY HERE: I appreciate your reading my blog and contributing your thoughts. I agree with you completely that we as a church should be caring for the poor. However, I also know that Catholics and conservatives contribute more to the poor than any other category of people.
I also know that the government has attempted to take over the care of everyone and whereas we used to have more money before the taxation increased so much, Christians had much more money to contribute to the poor — and they did.
But since the government now claimed responsibility for caring for the poor and disadvantaged and they raid our bank accounts through excessive taxation, it is now more difficult for folks to contribute.
You and I are complete agreement that our money in the United States should not be going to other countries, promoting abortion and all kinds of other “humanitarian efforts“ which often times are destructive.
I agree hour donations and tithing and generosity should be given to those truly in need and be given locally and not to any anti-life agenda.
I also think taxes should be much lower and generosity and care for the poor should be done through the private sector and on a local level.
When Jesus says to give to the poor, he wasn’t suggesting we do it through inefficient bureaucratic government agencies, but through the church with our own individual generosity.
Thanks again for writing God bless you and a happy new year!
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Steve didn't you know that Jesus was a socialist.
STEVE RAY HERE: Good joke!
Tones,
Jesus is God and he doesn't care what economic system you like. All He cares about is that you obey the 10 Commandments. Do that and the world would prosper and there would be peace.
STEVE RAY HERE:
Girard, wouldn’t that be nice if everyone would just love each other and love God and obey the commandments. However, that’s not gonna happen because we live in a fallen world full of sinners and therefore we need governments and justice” in prisons and we do have to pick a governmental system that best protect human life and freedom.
If that’s all it took them the Bible would just be promoting no government and people are being the Commandments but even among the Jews there was a very strict governmental form and punishment for those who broke the laws. We cannot be naïve and we live in the real world.
The only place where socialism has worked is at the monastery that makes and sells Christmas fruitcakes and even there they have to adhere to the laws of classical economics or they will go broke.
I am Pro-Life Catholic,
One of Jesus’ greatest Commandments to His followers is to love Him through caring for the poor! If they do not, Jesus says He will burn them in hell! I figure that God’s Commanded tithe on our 2 billion Christians of today, would be about a trillion dollars a year. I think a trillion dollars a year from Christ’s Church on earth would abolish poverty in the world today. I estimate our 2 billion Christians only give about 10 or 20 billion dollars a year to help the poor on earth. I estimate that our 2 billion Christians on earth today, genocide tens of millions of poor Lazerus’s a year through lack of proper Christian tithing (LUKE 16:19 The Rich Man and Lazarus).
Note:
Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29) American Taxpayers donate a trillion dollars to our domestic poor and 48 billion to foreign aid, per year.
MATTHEW 25:41
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink…
…’Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’ And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.’
STEVE RAY HERE: I appreciate your reading my blog and contributing your thoughts. I agree with you completely that we as a church should be caring for the poor. However, I also know that Catholics and conservatives contribute more to the poor than any other category of people.
I also know that the government has attempted to take over the care of everyone and whereas we used to have more money before the taxation increased so much, Christians had much more money to contribute to the poor — and they did.
But since the government now claimed responsibility for caring for the poor and disadvantaged and they raid our bank accounts through excessive taxation, it is now more difficult for folks to contribute.
You and I are complete agreement that our money in the United States should not be going to other countries, promoting abortion and all kinds of other “humanitarian efforts“ which often times are destructive.
I agree hour donations and tithing and generosity should be given to those truly in need and be given locally and not to any anti-life agenda.
I also think taxes should be much lower and generosity and care for the poor should be done through the private sector and on a local level.
When Jesus says to give to the poor, he wasn’t suggesting we do it through inefficient bureaucratic government agencies, but through the church with our own individual generosity.
Thanks again for writing God bless you and a happy new year!
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