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What does being "in" the world but not "of" the world look like?
There was the concept of free men under God and yoke of bondage.
God gave a man the choice to be Wise and wicked, faithful and foolish. The Church was part of the kingdom of God which was in the world but not of the world, secular being from the Latin for world. The Church is God's government, all be it, a peculiar people.
Distinctions of good and evil
Seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness includes the return to Eden where you eat of the tree of life and have the dominion God endowed you with and are happy.
The Globalist promises us that "we will own nothing and we will be happy." What the offer us is Mystery Babylon.
Jesus tells us to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and every thing will be added to us.
A year ago we did a Q & A about the kingdom of God and His righteousness on an X Space.
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Q & A about the Kingdom or press play
See topic notes:[1]
Knowing what is good and what is evil and the means and method by which we know is key to man's pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
"You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right."—Lyndon B. Johnson
While I have never been a big fan of Lyndon Baines Johnson what he says is not untrue.
Besides Adam and Eve's challenging diet in the pusuit of the knowledge of good and evil by eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil we also have Pontius Pilate asking the question "What is the truth?"[2] But the truth is spiritual.[3]
Economic systems
Socialism is an economic system but also a political system.[4]
Many will phrase that definition of socialism stating that the "means of production, distribution, and exchange belong to the workers."
The workers does not own nor hold the means of production, the power to distribute, nor the right to exchange in their hands but it is held by the collective.
Being a political system which by definition would include "the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs."
The means of production
The only economic system that allows the individual workers to own the means of production, the power to distribute, nor the right to exchange is capitalism because socialism and Communism or even fascism are systems that depend on the coveting of those things their neighbor produces.
Poltics of power
All those systems depend on political force to compel and regulate what some call sharing.
That political power always degenerates the leader into tyrants and the masses into "perfect savages". See https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Perfect_savages
Not Political
Capitalism is an economic system where the individual has a right to the value he or she produces.
That right must be properly recognized and defended by the brave elements of society as a "property right" for capitalism to function.
Almost all the real problems attributed to what is called capitalism today is in fact the result of "creeping socialism", which can be identified as the "covetous practices" or the politics of coveting.
Those political[5] practices become legal when the people consent while they are greedy for gain and develop an appetite for benefits even at the expense of others and depend for their livelihood on the property of others which is immoral.
If the bondage of Egypt required a portion of your labor to go to the government and the Corban of Herod and the Pharisees did the same then when Jesus came to set the captive free both Moses and Jesus would return every man to his family and to his possession.
If Jesus sets the captive free[6] because Jesus was not a socialist but a capitalist.[7]
Policy creep
As socialist policies creep into your economy and politics it always feeds an enmity between the richer and the less rich, dividing and conquering those who are jealous, envious and covet. http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Socialism
If you desire benefits from those in government who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority as rulers of the people you are in opposition to Christ.
Thomas Sowell interview
Thomas Sowell was asked why did he create the website facts against rhetoric org
Thomas Sowell answered:
"I thought of it as enabling students to get education despite going to college."
Is capitalism humane
Milton Friedman addresses the question, is capitalism humane? (5:52) At the beginning of capitaliom the individual still owns the "means of production, distribution, and exchange" as an individual.
But also Milton Friedman stated:
"... the great virtue of a market capitalist society is that by preventing a concentration of power, it prevents people from doing the kind of harm which only concentrated power can do."
"So that I conclude that capitalism per se is not humane nor inhumane. Socialism per se is not humane nor inhumane."
Systems of rights
Which one of these two systems (socialism vs capitalism) preserves the right to choose and which one grants the original right (private[8], primal[9], primary[10]) to own the "means of production, distribution, and exchange" to another.
Rights granted by "due process" (consent) to the political state[11] become (public rights.[12]
Friedman also stated:
"But capitalism tends to give free reign, much freer reign to the more humane values of human beings. It tends to develop a climate which is more favorable to the development, on the one hand, of a higher moral atmosphere of responsibility and on the other, to greater achievements in every realm of human understanding."
This tending to give free reign which may be a much freer reign that may produce a climate which is more favorable to the development of positive human values is not automatic.
Evidently other elements must act upon or within society to prevent man from becoming less free.
Mankind has both a history of becoming less than free with the institutions he creates for himself. Becoming mere Human resources with restricted and regulated public rights[12] as subjects under the law of the state over its subjects has been a pattern repeated in every age and corner of the world.
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." [13]
History tells us that certain elements and practices in society alters the coarse of society.
The cause is not always direct nor obvious.
As an example the shrinking of muscles in a polio victim is primarily due to injury to the motor nerves that control those muscles. The injury to the nerves leads to muscle atrophy from lack of use. The poliovirus, or any thing that damages and ruins the connectivity of healthy motor neurons within the body will result in reduced muscle activity and subsequent muscle shrinkage.
The same is true for low gravity condition that astronauts would experience on a long journey to Mars. Their body would adjust so that returning to earth would be almost impossible.
Seeds of confusion and chaos
City states, nations and empires have risen to greatness only to be ruined by the enemy within as from and invassion of a foreign actor.
We may read the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley that describes where "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert" symbolizing the decayed grandeur ironically emphasized with the inscription of its maker.
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Only his arrogance is memorialezed by the absence of his ruined grandeur and the contrast as "the lone and level sands stretch far away."
While, it is true that "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered." [13] the decay and ruin of the grandeurof yor once great citadel began long before.
The once great Roman republic had alredy begun its historical decline and fall as early Christians strove to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Mischief crept secretly
The early Church was already being persecuted by the Romans when Plutarch, aRoman citizen, Greek historian, biographer, and essayist professed those elements of society and government that first ruined Rome.
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)[14]
Hate not Curse not
Much of what we believe ails today's society are the symptoms of a social disease rather than the cause. To curse the discomfort does not cure the cough nor relieve the cold.
"A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man." [13]
Hating what you imagine to be the source of your present or future calamity does not relieve the cause of your nation's ruin nor alieviate the coming of your own ruin.
The cure
"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”[13]
Because socialism is a political system it requires you become a member which is a person and therefore an instrument of the collective as a human resource and literally become 'merchandise.”
The collective pit
The Socialist State is the city that is a cauldron and the way of One purse where you own nothing and are supposed to be happy. See Globalism, Babylon.
Once the citizens becomes accustomed to living at the expense of others he or she will begin a process of degeneration. This process may be very slow for some been human nature is fixed. The only thing that changes is our values or vision of them. If we ignore the inevitable changes that will occur our ability to see may also degenerate until our conscience is seared.[15]
Cracker culture
In Thomas Sowel's Book Black rednecks and white liberals. Blacks inherited some of the culture brought to the south from Europe.
In Elizabethan England the root of the word cracker derives from the verb crack (meaning to boast) and the noun craker, Elizabethan Roots: The word derives from the verb crack (meaning to boast) and the noun craker, which William Shakespeare used in his 1590s play King John to describe an obnoxious gascon or boaster.
By 1760s, British and American colonists applied the term to Scots-Irish and Celtic immigrants who settled the lawless southern backcountries of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
There was a fierce independence among both the blacks and whites. Most black were not slaves on large plantations but worked together with there masters for mutual survival in a difficult time.
Discrimination and Disparities
At the end of slavery they knew what it took to survive for the understood what was needed to be succesfull as an individual and family.
"The plain fact is that the black poverty rate declined from 87% in 1940 to 47% in 1960, prior to the great expansion of the welfare state that began in the 1960s under the Johnson administration. And as late as 1969, two-thirds of all black children were living with both parents."
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered." [13]
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In the case of blacks, I would pick the period from, say, 1940 to 1960.
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In 1940, 82% of black children
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were raised with two parents. After the 60s, and all the social things
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that happened, that fell to 17%. And so you destroyed one of the key institutions of any society,
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the family and its influence and that's the consequence. Similarly, with things like violence,
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the homicide rate among black males fell during the 1940s by 18%.
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It fell again by 22% between 40 and 50. Now in the 1960s, which is when all progress is assumed
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to have begun, the Supreme Court began creating new
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constitutional rights for prisoners and criminals.
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And almost immediately beginning in the 1960s,
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the homicide rate doubled. And it doubled after three consecutive decades of
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falling homicide rates for the whole country.
>> Peter Robinson: So, Tom, again, let me quote, if I may, from discrimination and disparities this is you writing in that book.
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There was a far more modest decline in the poverty rate among blacks after the Johnson administration's massive war on poverty programs began.
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And by 1995, only a third of black children were living with both parents, among black families in poverty,
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85% of the children had no father present Close quote. All right, this brings us to a very important question,
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which is did the Great Society, did these? We have government programs, civil rights, you've already said those were essential,
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simply as a matter of justice. At roughly the same time, we get welfare programs, a massive increase in government spending, the so called war on poverty.
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And we also get cultural upheaval, shifting or erosion of certain cultural norms and
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your argument is civil rights is the civil rights legislation.
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Equality before the law was just and necessary and overdue we're happy that that happened, it needed to happen.
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But your argument is also that federal money, that the rise of the welfare state and the erosion of cultural norms
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took progress among black Americans, stopped it and reversed it.
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In other words, that they actually did harm or that they were merely irrelevant.
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>> Thomas Sowell: They did harm across the society, not just among racial minorities.
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You have people who've had meaning taken out of their lives.
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People, for example, I see in California, especially people
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who have young people with cars will go into some street area and
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then do all kinds of crazy driving with a car in order to attract a crowd.
21 min social programs took meaning out of the lives of blacks by altering the culture generating a mental and emotional malaise and apathy
malaise an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness
22:01 And that's what they get. But people who have meaning in their lives from what they're doing, 22:09 if you have having a family to support, having a child to raise, 22:14 things like that, that puts meaning in their lives. But when all of that is taken out of their lives by the government, and especially when the government is paying people when they have no husband present and not paying if there is a husband present. 22:35 You are subsidizing a social change that is doing far more harm than whatever incidental good you are doing just by handing out some money.
He produced two main findings in his book Charter School's and their Enemies.
the first, he found that charter school students, especially black and
Hispanic students, outperformed the public school students. 24:13 And the second measure- >> Thomas Sowell: In the same building. >> Peter Robinson: In the same building. You've got, in one example, 24:18 only 7% of the kids in one public school passed a math proficiency exam. Among the charter school kids on the other side of the wall, 24:25 being taught in the same building, the figure was 100%. So let's pause with that finding, how can that be?
Thomas Sowell got less respect the more he accomplised
"One of the ironies that I experienced in my own career was that I received more automatic respect when I first began teaching in 1962 as an inexperienced young man with no PhD. And few publications than I did later in the 1970s after accumulating a more substantial record."
In Carlo Collodi's <born on November 24, 1826>classic story in the original 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet transitions from a character defined by major vices to one who embodies core virtues.
Pinocchio, was a puppet
He lied
Slothfully neglected his duty
Disobeyed his maker and his conscience.
self-centered, thankless, and easily led into temptations.
To become human he must
Face the painful consequences Accept the light of Honesty and Truthfulness Bravily risk all for others sacrificing comfort for sake of Selfless Love and Devotion abandoning his idle, stubborn ways for hard work, caring for his father and attending school diligently. Disney made the puppet Innocent, naive, and impressionable. Carlos made.
Him Cruel, petulant, and rebellious. Pinocchio immediately kicks Geppetto, and wilfully runs away and even kills the Talking Cricket with a hammer. It is a Dark, violent satire. A world of starvation, murderers, systemic corruption, and severe physical trauma used as a cautionary tale witr Brutal consequences. Pinocchio burns his feet off, gets trapped in a dead donkey, and is nearly fried by a green ogre.
Underlying Message "Don't pull my strings." A political and educational critique emphasizing that we must acquire knowledge and understañding to escape societal manipulation.
What consequence shall you face?
If you send your children to public school you are grooming them for socialism and demoalizing them to accept covetous practices, depending oni. The property of others to get free things is covetous. And covetousness is Idalotry. https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Democratic_socialism
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Judeo-Christian
The early church and Christians were a well organized voluntary society who were persecuted by the elite for not joining in the welfare systems of the Pharisees and the Romans run through their government temples. The social safety net provided through what was called public religion was considered a covetous practice because it provided benefits through contribution compelled by men who exercised authority. Modern Christians love these "dainties of rulers" these "wages of unrighteousness" and those benefits of the socialist welfare State.
http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Socialism
A regime is a system of rules, norms, and procedures that determines how a government is organized, how people access political power, and how public decisions are made. Christ regime?
Datarepublican
"A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort.
The group includes about 10 current and former officials with experience in the Defense Department, some of whom have previously focused on countering authoritarianism abroad."
Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET), shown here, in addition to being NSL4A founder and leading the United Democracy Alliance under the Horizons Project "Big Tent" initiative... also leads Horizons Project's Insurrection Act Working Group. Others on the Horizons Project:
Erica Chenoweth Nada Zohdy, is at Horizons Project which is the resistance. She was the past director of the Open Government partnerships hub, was also the Obama Foundations global network lead, and was at Rhize which was founded by Erin Mazursky
Julia Roig a “weaver” and founder started at partners global.
Democratic insurrection.
https://x.com/JoinTAB_USA/status/2112826056189128950
- ↑ Ignorance?; Greek term "Unmoved mover" for God?; Patterns of righteousness; (and Unrighteousness); Kingdom - of God; Trees of life and of knowledge; Seek, persevere and stive for the kingdom; Abraham's journey; Ur?; Presenting evidence; Social safety net; "Leaven"; Q from Mark: Parrhesia call-out; A: Sects with different doctrines; Jesus exposing them; Q: Parrhesia - do we follow biblical Jesus; A: Follow the Logos, anointed by Holy Spirit; Spiritual revelation of truth; Commonality in our walk; "Sechem" = consent; Words with multiple meanings; Jacob's ladder dream; Freedom to choose; Kingdom composed of individuals; Letting go of vanity; Bible as a tool; Your choice; Q Mark: Interpreting what Parrhesia thinks; Ruling over other people - shin-resh-resh; Understanding Jacob; "Abimelech"; "Ideology"; Right reason made flesh; Repentance; Wanting a commander-in-chief; Q - from Parrhesia: Is the bible the word of God?; Logos?; Just books; Translators?; Q: Where do we get the message of God? Revelation? How to know who has correct revelation?; Only way to know is by divine revelation; Spiritual confirmation; Bible is witness, word of God is written on men's hearts and minds; Q: from Slutty Rollex Bugatti: "Revelation"?; Animal sacrifice?; A: The original Israel were not killing animal on piles of stones; Explaining "Altars"; Mark: What Jesus was teaching re: Abraham and Moses; Jeremiah? Same problem with altars; Parrhesia: revealed true nature to him. Sharing with the group.; Q From Kristie: Bible divinely inspired - famine of the end times? = Truth; Opportunities to preach the gospel; Engage with real people asking real questions; Constantine and the Catholic church; Divine revelation belongs to everyone who will receive it; Language is subject to interpretation; Q from Slutty: Why did Jesus see Moses as a hero?; A: Because Moses was doing something different than what the pharisees thought he was doing; Idolatry = covetousness; Exposing your situation today; Coveting benefits taken from your neighbor; War with Israel; "Corban"; New testament "Religion" (James); "World" - which one?; Individualism?; "Socialism"; vs "Family"; Ties that bound ancient Israel?; Definitions of "Socialism", even before Marx; Jesus WAS king; Socialist collectives; Exercising authority?; Antithetical to the bible; Biting your neighbor; Truth-lovers; Moral social welfare; Freewill offerings; Q from Raffi: Seeking God's kingdom; Something wrong with present situation?; Right to choose - exercise responsibility; God wants you to be free; Being sureties for debt; Set your neighbor free.
- ↑ Innocense of Jesus.
- John 18:38 “38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.”
- John 18:37 "Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
- John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
- John 8:31 "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
- John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."
- Luke 23:4 "Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man."
- Luke 23:14–15 "Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him."
- John 19:4, 6 "Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. 5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! 6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. 7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
- 1 Peter 2:22 "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:"
- Matthew 27:18–19 "For he knew that for envy they had delivered him. 19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife, sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
- ↑ Law is spiritual
- Zechariah 7:12 "Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts."
- Luke 2:27 "And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,"
- Romans 7:6 "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter."
- Romans 7:14 "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Romans 8:2 "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."'
- Galatians 3:2 "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"'
- Galatians 5:18 "But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law."
- ↑ The term "socialism" generally is said to be "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production[1], distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."
- ↑ The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs.
- ↑ Setting the Captive free
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- Luke 4:18
- 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
- Psalms 146:7
- Psalms 107:14
- Leviticus 25:10 (the Year of Jubilee)
- John 8:36 (“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”
- Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”
- ↑ Kingdom Capitalism
- Genesis 1:28 — "And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'"
- Genesis 34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
- Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family... 13 ... ye shall return every man unto his possession... 27 ... that he may return unto his possession. 28 ... and he shall return unto his possession.
- Obadiah 1:17 "But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions."
- Exodus 20:15 — "You shall not steal."
- Exodus 20:17 — "You shall not covet your neighbor's house... or anything that is your neighbor's."
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10 — "For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat."
- Matthew 25:14-30 "14 For [the kingdom of heaven is] as a man travelling into a far country, [who] called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made [them] other five talents. 17 And likewise he that [had received] two, he also gained other two. 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord s money. 19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. 20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. 21 His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. 23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, [there] thou hast [that is] thine. 26 His lord answered and said unto him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury'. 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give [it] unto him which hath ten talents. 29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Proverbs 10:22 — "The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it."
- Proverbs 13:22 — "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children..." (implying accumulation and passing on of wealth).
- Proverbs 28:8 "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor."(critiquing exploitative interest but noting honest profit can benefit the generous) and
- Ephesians 4:28 "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth."—combining work, ownership, and voluntary charity).
- 1 Timothy 6:6 "But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness."
- Acts 4:32 "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any [of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common."
- ↑ "Private property rights" refer to the legal rights of individuals or entities to own, use, manage, and transfer property, which can include real estate, buildings, and intellectual property. These rights are essential for economic growth and individual freedom, allowing owners to benefit from their investments."A private right of action" allows individuals to go to court to enforce their legal rights, meaning they can sue another party for violations of the law, even if the law does not explicitly provide for such a right. This concept is important because it enables private parties to seek justice when government enforcement may be lacking.
- ↑ "Primal rights" refer to fundamental rights that are inherent to all individuals simply by being human. These rights are often associated with the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and are considered universal and inalienable.
- ↑ Primary rights refer to the basic rights that individuals have, particularly the right to be free from unlawful conduct. These rights are fundamental to ensuring individual liberty and protection under the law.
- ↑ A political state is a recognized entity that holds sovereignty over a defined territory, allowing it to govern and enforce laws independently. It typically includes a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to engage in international relations.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 The meaning of PUBLIC RIGHTS is the rights under law of the state over the subject and of the subject against the state.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ Alternate translation. "For it has been well said that he first breaks down the power of the people who first feasts and bribes them. But at Rome the mischief seems to have crept in stealthily and gradually, and not to have been noticed at once." Life of Coriolanus, Sec. 14
- ↑ A conscience seared
- 1 Timothy 4:1 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;...12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
- Jeremiah 5:21 "Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:"
- Matthew 7:15 ¶ "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
- Matthew 24:24 "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect."
- 2 Peter 2:1 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. :
- 2 Timothy 3:1 "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
- Ephesians 4:17 "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;