Christian Economics

Christian Economics and the Christian Worldview. My friends at Summit Ministries in Colorado continue their video series laying out a comprehensive Biblical Christian Worldview. Part 9 of 11

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[Jay McFarland]

Fuck "christian" prosperity gospelers. Jesus would throw up.

[Ben Beckett]

One type of property encouraged by the Bible they conveniently forget to mention: slaves.

[Ws Wa]

Islam only accept money that have intrinsic value eg gold and silver. Fiat money or paper money that exist today have been a vehicle to the bankers (zionist) in manipulating other people and other nation. The enslavement that happen today partly is the result of paper money. This world economy will never improved if we still

adopted the same policy. I believe Christian also have solution to this problem. Anybody want to share Christian view on economy with me?

[Ws Wa]

Usury / interest / riba is forbidden in Islam which is now widely practiced by banking system. It is because the usury is the way the rich became richer and the poor become poorer which is the reality happen today. Islam also promote fair and free market. Ceiling price, sanction in trade and minimum wages which is man made have interfere with the natural and free market and it only leads to oppression to another party. The best way is to let the demand and supply run naturally.

[Ws Wa]

I agree with the video but the failure of the economy today because lots of people do not practice their religion. In Islam, which share the same root as Christian and Jews , have a rule for the believer in order to maintain the stable economy which include all believer is obligated to pay 2.5 of their wealth to 7 category of people include the poor and people who cannot paid their debt. It is called zakat / zakah. The create a better distribution of wealth among the community.

[StPeteDada]

It's to bad most Americans either think an economic system is either between free-market capitalism or state socialism because this paradigm doesn't take into account worker's self-management and because American Christians might find support with mutualism and anarcho-syndicalism since they reject state central planning and the wage system by having workers own and manage the workplace themselves.

[StPeteDada]

The issue is not private property vs common property but rather if that property is being maintained through coercion and exploitation or if it is being maintained through free voluntary action. The Bible doesn't condemn common ownership if the individuals voluntarily agree to it. Acts 4:32-35 describes believers having possessions in common being distributed according to need.

[StPeteDada]

Capitalism would only work if everybody were capitalists. If everybody were capitalists there would be no wage system because people would actually get paid according to what they work: If you work more, you get paid more. Our economic system is not Biblical primarily because people who work more are actually paid less while those who work the least reap most of the benefits of those who work more. Also the Bible condemns usury while our economy is almost entirely based around usury.

[GnosisMan50]

This guy has no idea what he is talking about. He lives in a Bible Bubble hence his awareness as to what constitutes reality is as far removed as the planets.That he would ever read Riane Eisler, Richard Wilkinson, or Mat Gabor. If he did, his statement that the Bible gives us the right to own property would have never been said. Of what good is it to own property if you can't afford it? Capitalism is corrupt, we are in debt up to our ass and this guy talks about how great it is. so sad.

[Scott Mullings]

A free market economy only exists to a significant degree in the third world where they are forced to adopt it.But at the point at which real industrialisation occurs,there is going to be natural pressure on the state to intervene to support these industries and undermine perfect competition which doesn't even really exist in these third world nations.The Overall democratization of industry and commerce and of the state will allow for overall progress in the modern industrial world

[Scott Mullings]

It is interesting that the claim is made that individuals ought to be rewarded according to their work.So it implies that if u don't work u ought not to be rewarded.Under Private Ownership of critical resources,that is not the case, the workers get only a part of the benefits of their effort but the owners gets most of it while not working themselves.So then corporatism or just classical capitalism is opposite to what this video presents.And socialism is more consistent

with it

[Scott Mullings]

So the claim that God made humans stewards of earth is completely consistent with socialism not a few,or the majority but all so all are entitled to their fair share of the world's resources.