I.(Deut. 28:5,7) There is a positive relationship
between a nation’s economic prosperity and it’s obedience to Biblical Law. Could the real problem concerning lack of
economic growth in backward nations be spiritual instead of economic?
II.(Gen. 1:26) Man, being a creaturely reflection of God, is capable of free choice. Is the system of voluntary exchange in a free market economy morally superior to the involuntary exchange of socialist economies?
III.(Gen. 1:28) Man is the LORD’S steward, who is the be in economic control of the LORD’S creation. He is to subdue so as to multiply. And he is to replenish (preserve) its natural resources.
IV.(Gen. 1:31) The physical aspects of God’s creation are positively good. This means that material wealth is good. See the first and last chapters of Job. The disparaging of material things is evil.
V.(Gen. 2:15) Even before the fall, man was faced with the necessity of working for a living and of facing the economic necessity of choice between “scarce” resources. He was called to choose between “available alternatives with the purpose of maximizing his welfare.”-Ross
VI. (Gen. 3:17-19) The basic economic problem, since the fall, is dire scarcity, i.e., man does not have unlimited means of choice at his disposal.
VII. (Gen. 3:17f; 11:1f) “The curse of the earth is the means of forcing men to cooperate with each other if they wish to increase their wealth; the division of labor increases productivity in a world that has limited resources.”-Gary North
VIII. (Gen. 13:2) The accumulation of material wealth is a positive good, and a blessing of God upon faithfulness.
IX. (Exodus 8:1) Freedom is not an end in and of itself. God has fiven his people freedom that they might serve Him according to His laws. Therefore “the more wealth man has under his control, the greater is his stewardship responsibility for using his wealth constructively in God’s service.”-Rose
X. (Deut. 19:14) Man has a moral right to have exclusive control of and access to his own property.
XI. (Ecc. 5:9) “The citizens of a nation have a rightful claim on what their land produces. National land policies that deprive large masses of humanity from ready access to land, so that they are inhibited from exerting their labor to produce a ‘profit’, go directly against the clear word of God.”-Tim Rose
(Deuteronomy commentary, Joe morecraft, p.82)
II.(Gen. 1:26) Man, being a creaturely reflection of God, is capable of free choice. Is the system of voluntary exchange in a free market economy morally superior to the involuntary exchange of socialist economies?
III.(Gen. 1:28) Man is the LORD’S steward, who is the be in economic control of the LORD’S creation. He is to subdue so as to multiply. And he is to replenish (preserve) its natural resources.
IV.(Gen. 1:31) The physical aspects of God’s creation are positively good. This means that material wealth is good. See the first and last chapters of Job. The disparaging of material things is evil.
V.(Gen. 2:15) Even before the fall, man was faced with the necessity of working for a living and of facing the economic necessity of choice between “scarce” resources. He was called to choose between “available alternatives with the purpose of maximizing his welfare.”-Ross
VI. (Gen. 3:17-19) The basic economic problem, since the fall, is dire scarcity, i.e., man does not have unlimited means of choice at his disposal.
VII. (Gen. 3:17f; 11:1f) “The curse of the earth is the means of forcing men to cooperate with each other if they wish to increase their wealth; the division of labor increases productivity in a world that has limited resources.”-Gary North
VIII. (Gen. 13:2) The accumulation of material wealth is a positive good, and a blessing of God upon faithfulness.
IX. (Exodus 8:1) Freedom is not an end in and of itself. God has fiven his people freedom that they might serve Him according to His laws. Therefore “the more wealth man has under his control, the greater is his stewardship responsibility for using his wealth constructively in God’s service.”-Rose
X. (Deut. 19:14) Man has a moral right to have exclusive control of and access to his own property.
XI. (Ecc. 5:9) “The citizens of a nation have a rightful claim on what their land produces. National land policies that deprive large masses of humanity from ready access to land, so that they are inhibited from exerting their labor to produce a ‘profit’, go directly against the clear word of God.”-Tim Rose
(Deuteronomy commentary, Joe morecraft, p.82)
