The Choice Is Yours

 

Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world and not after CHRIST.”

 

“Men pour themselves into creeds and GOD has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to JESUS CHRIST.” Oswald Chambers

 

While Chambers is speaking of non-Christian verses CHRIST’s views on living life this also applies to today’s events in America.

 

Our nations is divided not by a lot of differences of opinion about how to do everything and how to live our lives. It is divided by three competing philosophies: Christianity, capitalism and socialism. To their proponents they offer the only true way life should be lived.

 

The United States of America has proved that Christianity and capitalism work well together; The People’s Republic of China has proved that socialism and capitalism can work together.

 

Capitalism is not the problem it is the process where citizens can live profitable lives while the government can control their citizens and make lots of money to fund what they care about (mostly themselves).

 

Christianity is based on the Laws of GOD as given in the Bible on how to live before GOD and to serve our fellow humans.

 

Socialism which says that everyone is equal and should have the same amount of stuff, no matter what! The government is the one that determines what that is and how it is applied. Every socialist government has become a communist dictatorship where the government keeps appointing it’s members as the ruling class.

 

What we have in America today is the war between who is going to govern the results of capitalism and determine how capitalism will be practiced going forward! The choice is between Christianity which teaches that we should obey GOD’s moral laws, do not lie, cheat or steal, remain sexually pure, love your neighbor as you love yourself and love your enemy. Or socialism who demands that you keep whatever laws they make, that you report your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers for any infraction of those laws so that you can improve your social standing with the government.

 

The choice is each of ours of how we are going to live our life!

 

My household has chosen to live a Christian lifestyle in a capitalist nation, The United States of America.