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Humanism makes either society or the individual sovereign, subordinating the
one to the other. In economics this means government control or libertarianism. The former's goal is to
redistribute wealth to the state; the latter's, personal freedom. Redistribution kills productivity. Without virtue, freedom dies. The first brings want; the second, anarchy. Both are suicidal.
Government control promises humanistic security, an oxymoron, a rejection of divine sovereignty, of God's Word, of Jesus Christ. For such apostasy
the Bible predicts insecurity – dwindling
property rights, debased money, oppressive taxation – as sovereign rulers shift wealth and
power to themselves, persuasive proof of the non-humanistic origin of Scripture.
Libertarians often agree with specific Biblical economic principles. Yet they err in thinking these deny only government sovereignty over property, taxation, money. In fact these
deny all sovereignty
to any human entity. They maximize happiness because thus saith the Lord,
not because they
promote individual
freedom (although
they do that).
In the Trinity, unity
and plurality are
equally ultimate and
neither subordinate. The Godhead is not inferior to the three Persons, nor they to the Godhead. The Word of God being
both a divine Person (Christ) and divine Truth (Scripture), human unity and individuality are also equally ultimate and neither subordinate when man obeys Biblical principles.
The same specific Biblical economic principles bind human government today as absolutely as Jesus Christ is God's only-
longer apply, the Word of God Himself can evolve and we may have new Christs, other Saviors, a Trinity in flux. The finality of God's written and Personal Word stands or falls together.
