Christ on Economics

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Why Should Christians Care About Economics?

http://blog.tifwe.org/why-should-christians-care-about-economics/

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Five Reasons Why Christians Should Care About Economics
1. The Bible Deals with Economic Issues [hundreds of times]
2. Economics Helps Us Understand the Public Square [see #5 below]
3. Economics Expands Our Model of Discipleship
4. Economics Enhances Our Theology of Work
5. Economics Illuminates the Theological Implications of Politics [with which the Bible also deals often]

https://blog.acton.org/archives/75744-5-reasons-christians-care-economics.html

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12 theses for a Christian understanding of economics

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/12-theses-for-a-christian-understanding-of-economi/

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[Dr.] Walter Williams [and  Dr. Thomas Sowell ] explains why capitalism is moral in 5 minutes

http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/walter-williams-explains-why-capitalism-is-moral-in-5-minutes/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Both Drs., btw, are  black American heroes .]

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Shelving the ‘Greed Myth’ and other economic illusions

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/shelving-the-greed-myth-and-other-economic-illusio/

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Freedom is key to creating wealth, prosperity

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/freedom-is-key-to-creating-wealth-prosperity/

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Defending the free market

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/defending-the-free-market/

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Bible doesn’t command wealth redistribution, presenters say at theological meeting

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=39349

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“Is there such a thing as a distinctively Christian economics?  Yes…
Throughout the book of Proverbs a strong emphasis is placed on the validity of honest labor and its many rewards. “A slack hand causes poverty,but the hand of the diligent makes rich.” (10:4).  Even more emphatically, “He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.” (18:9)…
Why, then, should wealth be [redistributed socialistically] to the ungodly [‘slackers‘ who refuse to work]?…
[Throughout the Old Testament, m]en are [also] warned against envying the prosperity of the [wealthy], for the end of such prosperity is destruction [Ps. 73;  Prov 24: 19-20;  Ezek. 16:49.].
[In the New Testament,] Jesus claimed that he was engaged in the fulfilling of the law of the Old Testament (Matt. 5: 17)…  He assumed that the Old Testament provisions are valid in practice…  Jesus [therefore was] not a social reformer with a social message. The message he had was… within the traditional framework of the Old Testament [capitalistic] economy.  Any systematic teaching by Jesus on economic matters is limited almost exclusively to the economic framework of his spiritual parables.  These are generally conservative in their outline: first, private property is affirmed in them; second, men are encouraged to add to their wealth.“

http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/pdf/intro_to_christian_economics.pdf

Christian Economics [Audio]

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/i8554gdz/ChristianEconomics__Pt_1_.html
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http://www.4shared.com/mp3/V5np3B4O/ChristianEconomics__Pt_2_.html

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