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🚨 Christianity doesn’t just “allow” Capitalism.

📖 It commands it.

From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture affirms private property, stewardship, and profitability on the Master’s investment.

Here’s why that truth horrifies the Left 👇

2/ The 8th Commandment bans theft.

The 10th bans coveting—even thinking about theft.

1 Sam. 8 bans taxes of 10% or more.

That’s the Bible drawing a hard line against envy and redistribution.

Socialism? Dead on arrival.

3/ Christian economics doesn’t start with scarcity like your college class.

It starts with ownership.

➡️ God owns everything, including you.
➡️ He delegates property to specific stewards.
➡️ He demands that we improve it.
➡️ He judges our faithfulness with it

4/ We don't all start, or finish, with the same gifts.

Some people's gifts aren't even material at all. And God trusts people with different starting points.

That offends the Socialists. But I don't want the same things as my artsy daughter. God lets us both live as we wish.

5/ This is why the Founding Fathers didn't use Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property" and instead went with "the pursuit of happiness".

We all have different gifts, and we should get to express them differently.

The outcomes can't possibly be the same.

rodmartin.org/p/are-life-lib…

6/ The Parable of the Talents certainly isn’t about “fairness.”

It’s about profitability.

The stewards who multiplied the Master’s wealth were rewarded.

The one who buried his talent? Condemned.

God requires increase, not stagnation, both spiritual and material.

7/ But even there, the master didn't give his servants equal starting points. He gave them what he thought they could handle successfully.

I'm good at being the CEO of Martin Capital. I wouldn't be good at being quarterback of the Cowboys.

Nor should I want to be.

8/ Paul teaches that the Body of Christ has many parts: brains, hearts, hands. They all work together.

This is the foundation of the Division of Labor.

That Biblical truth made possible the Industrial Revolution…and the greatest escape from poverty in human history.

9/ In 1800, 94% of humanity lived in extreme poverty.

Today, thanks to Capitalism, it’s less than 9%.

That’s not “greed.”

That’s God’s design—stewards using their Lord's gifts to creatively solve each other's problems and push back the Curse.

10/ Socialism does the opposite.

• At every point it violates God’s law.
• It deifies the State.
• It centralizes power in Nimrods, Pharaohs, Caesars and Stalins.

It’s theft with a government seal. And the Bible calls it oppression.

11/ Nor is it "charitable" or "compassionate".

A soulless bureaucracy, confiscating your property to give it to its supporters, is not exercising "charity".

Charity is impossible if it's not voluntary.

Compulsion is just theft. And majorities can steal. Ask the slaves.

12/ Capitalism, by contrast, forces even the greedy to serve others:

✅ No man profits without solving someone else’s problem.
✅ Competition makes service cheaper and better.
✅ Persuasion replaces force.

It’s the Golden Rule in action.

rodmartin.org/p/why-the-gold…

13/ Don’t pretend Christ is silent on economics.

He authored Scripture.
He delegated stewardship.
He demands profitability.

📖 Christianity doesn’t just allow Capitalism—
➡️ It commands it.

See my full essay:

rodmartin.org/p/sunday-essay…

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