Doing the Lord's Work with Biblical Economics – "Charity" Masks Systemic Injustice – Stop Condoning Usury – Creating Miracles: Prosperity for All!

Source: Liberty Revival

Educate Ministries on Biblical Economics

July 4, 2012 by Keith Gardner

While I hear evidence that black churches in Georgia are doing the Lord’s work of educating their flocks on the economics of the Bible, that the profit of the earth is for all and your toil is your own, that one should pay a redemption for the private ownership of land, that you should lease the land from the public, because the land in your possession is God’s land... I do not see such evidence in white churches in Georgia. White churchgoers seem ignorant of economic teachings of the Bible, with the exception that one should title 10% of your earnings to the church.

I also see a lack of understanding of usury. Christianity, like all 5 major religions, condemns usury, especially upon money. The Bible condemns banking and insurance. Even Jesus lost his temper at the moneychangers. The Bible promotes a debt jubilee, where debts are erased every 50 years. However, Christians today seem to condemn debtors and the poor – and worship the usurers. Banks themselves tower in city skies like giant temples, and are found with lavish buildings on every street corner, as if they were Baptist churches in the Bible Belt.

Many churches do fund things like homeless shelters. They seem to follow the scripture that one should give bread to the poor, in their mission statements in helping the homeless. However, they miss the point that Thomas Jefferson made, that when there are homeless and unemployed poor, property rights have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The Christian ministries seem to miss that providing to the homeless is not charity – but justice for the violation of their natural rights given to them by God. The homeless have been denied God’s land and the fruits of their own toil by temples of mammon, the rentier class, the usurers, and those taxing their labor. The homeless are not squatters. Those who hold land in their possession and deny the homeless land are the squatters of God’s land. They are in violation of the Lockean proviso that your land is only your own when there is enough left for others. The wealthy are causing the poor harm with policies which create a labor surplus and an affordable housing and credit shortage.

While many today go to churches to network and socialize rather than actually study the Bible, and many churches are in the religion business to make money, it would still be in the best interest of such churches to educate their flocks on the importance of Biblical economics. Biblical economics promotes development and efficient use of land. Implementation of a land value tax in a local community would cause a development and economic boom. Land speculators would have to develop the land they hold possession of – or lose the value of the land, in the public collection of land rents.

If churches take it a step further and promote public usury-free greenbacks, churchgoers would no longer have to pay taxes on their toil to holders of national debt. The holders of national debt would also have to put their savings to work in the investment of real capital, if they wanted to earn a return. They would have to develop land, create jobs, and put people to work – rather than collect interest from the taxpayer. There would be more earnings to tithe.

Population would grow and become wealthy and fully productive in communites which tax the value of the land rather than the development of land. The church pews and collection plates would be filled as the land becomes filled and productive. The golf courses would become filled. The government coffers would be filled. The people who go to church to network and make deals would see good times because biblical economics is good for business, labor, and real capital, as it is good for the whole community.

If the churches want to fill their pews and collection plates, do good for the community, do the Lord’s work, and create jobs, financially robust families, and development for their community, the best and most effective thing they can do is stop preaching about how one should give 10% of their earnings in tithings to the church; and start preaching the real economics of the Bible so the community, especially those who network and are influential, will be able to demand policy which would create an economic boom and prosperity for all: a boom which would also help the churches, answer prayers, and create miracles out of the Lord’s work.


Responses

KPRyan

Isn’t it amazing???

“… all 5 major religions condemn usury, especially upon money.”

Yet, here in the US (a majority Christian nation), the average churchgoer will make a variety of excuses for usury to be used against themselves, their family members, their fellow churchmembers and Americans in general. Anything from: “Well, that was then and this is now” to “Well, it is business and we can’t put our beliefs ahead of business” to “Anti-interest is a Communist plot!”

Usury has been accepted worldwide, which means this immoral activity has over-ruled the teachings of ALL 5 MAJOR WORLDWIDE RELIGIONS! An amazing feat!!

Similar to: “Well, yeah, a Commandment states: ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ – but that really applies to those who want to murder their neighbors, not those serving in our military against our enemies.”

How easily human beings are led against their best interests (with interest!) !!


Keith Gardner

The church could be a powerful force, which could exponentially grow the movement to the point of enacting policy. The church was instrumental in bringing monetary and banking reform to Canada, New Zealand, and Iceland during the Great Depression. Now is the time to do that outreach again: this is probably the only viable means to form solid support in communities for such policy.

Some of the Muslim nations still have a public banking system – as Christian nations of Canada, Iceland, and New Zealand had public banking systems after the Great Depression, until the 1970s.

It was the Canadian Catholic Church that helped bring about the public banking system of Canada, with the leadership of one concerned minister, Louis Even, who was educated on biblical economics and taught how to best help the people during the Great Depression and do the Lord’s work: reform the monetary and banking system.

We technically still want private banking. We want a public monetary system and private banking system. We just want the government to originate the money and spend it into circulation, rather than loan it as credit to individuals. [Social credit advocates that the treasury, commerce department, or local social credit office, originate the money and issue it regularly to households as a national dividend check – instead of having government as first spender, financing big projects that employ politically connected contractors, in a recipe for conflicts of interest. With national household credit, individuals and families get to vote via referendum on where and how their tax money is allocated to public projects – instead of having government ministers paternalistically make huge financial decisions with minimal public input and a general lack of transparency. Instead of putting up with the status quo – keeping families working so hard just to make ends meet and paying exorbitant taxes to fatten a rentier-financier overclass – we can choose instead to let families have more leisure time and get more involved in their communities and public life – and hold public servants accountable.] Private banks can still exist, to loan existing money from private individuals to other private individuals [with a 100% reserve requirement – not fractional reserve].

Christian churches have fixed this problem in the past, as the Catholic Church worked in Canada to bring about a public banking system; and they can fix it now. It is a modern David and Goliath story. They will just have to become concerned enough and faithful enough to preach the economics of the Bible to fix the problem.


See also:

More Time for Leisure – National Dividend: Cultural Inheritance of Society – C.H. Douglas's "Practical Christianity" – Individual Creative Freedom

Henry George's land value tax – Phony laissez-faire libertarianism – Land title monopoly – Rentier aristocracy – State property vs. common property