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It appears lost on many in the Church that ideas and their systems are rooted in comprehensive view of the universe and are by nature moral or immoral. No system of ideas is simply morally neutral but exists in and is born from the human heart. Either it is built on the word of the all-knowing, perfectly wise and morally impeccable God or it is wrought from the twisted and sinful heart of a morally dead creature we call man. Systems are not intellectually rooted only, neither is it merely about what works. Rather most ideas are rooted in the broken will of a sinful creature, who will go to no ends to couch it’s damnable desires as light rather than darkness. The fall of man in Genesis 3 was on the promise to “Know (determine for yourself) good and evil,” man has been doing so ever since and called his own evil good.

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.  For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:4-5

This explains the world Jesus entered into. When you separate yourself from God, you will self-justify your rebellion and try to get as far away from him as possible. That includes being as different in your thought and practice from God as you can be.

¹⁹ And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. ²¹ But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

John 3:19-21

The argument socialists make rests on disorder and confusion, namely is that rights are really entitlements. Aside from the idea of communal ownership (i.e. no private property), in socialism rights are not restrictions on others (you can’t limit my free speech, seize my wife etc.) but things owed you to the point of provision. One such argument is that people have the “right to food/water.” The “right to water/food argument” makes demand disconnect from supply, separating work from eating.

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.  For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.  For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.

2 Thessalonians 3:9-11

It ought to be evident on both counts that God demands labor for production and eating, and how someone would claim this “right” to undo God’s natural order which Paul indicates here. You may hear that this does not speak to property. While I disagree there is a simple indicator that God established property.

¹⁵ “You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:15

Simple and to the point. If property did not exist, stealing would not either which is the central goal of socialists. If you don’t have a right to your property alone but I have a claim to it too, I can take what I want and not be a thief. If I can put on the good Christian/good person face, then all the better. This is a manipulation tactic known as DARV (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) that makes me the good guy for stealing and you the sinner for holding to your property.

The bible has a system of economics because it has a system of morality, and a view of human nature.

Don’t think it odd that coveting is forbidden.

¹⁷ “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Exodus 20:17

One thing that becomes obvious when you study socialists is they spend an inordinate amount of time wanting what other people have, often having never worked a day in their lives. Bernie Sanders was kicked out of a commune for not working. Karl Marx spent his life mooching off of Friederich Engels and his in-laws. Mao Zedong was no better, neither was Lenin or Trotsky who also refused to work only making a living as revolutionaries seizing the property of others.

How does this tie to their Socialism? Well, what would someone who refuses to work gain from Socialism? Both their own moral justification and the possessions of others, as well as many followers trailing their pied piper. The Devil cannot be expected to announce himself as such, he parades as an angel of light.

⁴ But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, ⁵ “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii^[a] and given to the poor?” ⁶ He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

John 12:4-6

Notice how similar this is to challenging someone by saying everyone has a right to water, food, healthcare etc.

God established property, and a means of helping the poor, it’s called the diaconate. That wicked men supplant this, or like Judas simply cloth themselves in a veneer of righteousness ought to be obvious.

This needs to stop surprising so many of you.

Without the property rights of individuals, the cultural mandate becomes impossible. Individuals can’t manage their own possessions, and the head (so speak) of the body takes on the functions of the whole.

This is more than how we should organize ourselves, it’s about how God has organized the universe. If you believe in a Holy, separate God you believe in distinction which demands a laissez fair, property-based system because we have distinction in possession, individuals from society and society from the government, any of these from the family or anything else.

The alternative is that all is truly one, which is a fundamental aspect of socialist thought. Socialism obliterates the individual legally, subsumes the society to the state (in practice even when not in theory) and makes the state the determiner of right and wrong, who has enough and who has too much. The state becomes the provider regulating the economy, which is just a measure of human behavior. The state then has to regulate human behavior, all of it. People therefore are owned by the state. In short, the state is the God of socialism. Claims to the contrary ignore natural law and are intentional gaslighting.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Benito Mussolini

It bears mentioning as well that Communism is a religion. It has it’s own creator/God (history), a destination at the end of history (communist utopia), a meaning and purpose (participation in the revolution), and The Communist Manifesto was originally to be titled “The Communist Confession of Faith.”

This explains the messianic nature in socialism in practice

Scripture attests to this reality.

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Romans 1:25

I hate this translation, and I hate all poor translations. The word for “creature” is better rendered “creation.” This is why Paul continues on to note that they worship the creatures, because they have divinity in this other view of the universe. Socialism only works if the creation is divine, and all is an ultimate unity, and it assumes as such.

This is key and important for you to recognize, so follow me closely when I say that the central act of creating is making distinctions. When we make distinctions that God does not, we pretend to create, and we follow the serpent. When we collapse the distinctions in creation, we undo creation in thought but not reality leading to Socialism’s failures in all it’s forms. Socialism collapses all distinction by making the individual, family, state, economy etc. all one entity to be controlled by the gods we call bureaucrats or politicians who get to say who can have what.

Scripture leans into economic distinctions. The daughters of Zelophehad inherited, Ananias and Saphira were free to use their property as they wished. King Ahab was unable to take the property of Naboth, beyond his greed Ahab had no claim to righteous Naboth’s property which Naboth held righteously because it was his inheritance.

When God had the opportunity to create a welfare system in Israel or call for one in the New Testament from Rome, he did not. Rome did have social welfare systems like the grain dole, but these are not what the Apostles point to. In fact the final stage of empires begins with the creation of government systems, and the centralizing of the economy in a socialist manner.

Scripture establishes an economic system, including a means to help the poor. None of it involves the destruction of property. Socialism makes theft moral. Ultimately socialism is a declaration that we are more righteous than God.

The problem for Christians is that they think in parts.

Francis Schaeffer

Christians need to regain the idea that ideologies treat the world in wholes, and as such to recognize the battle we are in. Most I have seen have no problem calling ideas like “Christian Nationalism” (best described as a catch all and slur meant to marginalize Christians) evil and sinful but are increasingly defensive of outright demonic ideology.

I leave you with this thought.

Jesus doesn’t distribute gifts identically, even among his own people. Jesus is the richest man in the universe, and he is no sinner.