It Is Not a Famine of Food, But of Truth

If Absolute Truth standards were applied across the board, people would be accountable. If people were held accountable, they would either be more responsible or fail. Failure is an option. More importantly, failure is a necessity. This is called stewardship. Every man must be responsible to God for the investment of his own resources. When the government tries to be the savior of men, it messes life up for everyone. When the bureaucrats decide the prices for business you will always have excess and waste in some areas, and famines in other areas.

When famine hits the land because we have refused God's law, we will not learn. "A rod for the fool's back," says the scripture. The scriptures [Absolute Truth] say that having children are a blessing, and debt is a curse. We reject blessings, and apply for curses. Absolute Truth standards (Bible) have been written to show us the laws of the universe... both the ethical, and the metaphysical. We would rather have man's laws and famine. We hate the thought of submission. We love our autonomy.

Although God says that the role of government is to punish evil (Romans 13.1-7), the Bible does not tell the government to punish greed. While civil government must punish crime (theft), it must not seek to punish sin of the heart (greed). While the government must ensure justice in the markets (punish coercion, etc.), it must not set prices. It is the individual that God holds accountable as a steward of his own resources. It is not necessarily greed that causes him to seek the highest amount for his goods and services. It is good stewardship to get the most that you can for your products.

It is not a capitalist system that bails out corporations, and then steals back corprate head's bonuses. Again, we see the difficulty of trying to sail a ship with no rudder.

We as Christians have led the world astray by spurning God's laws. When economic hard times come, we spiritualize our hardsip and say, "The Lord is teaching me patience," or "This is just a trial that God wants me to grow through." While these are true, we ought to also be asking, "In what ways might I be violating God's laws?" If God says that the debtor is the lender's slave (Proverb 22.7), then should I not blame myself for my imposing mountain of debt? It wasn't God who sold me into 30 years of mortgage slavery. It wasn't God who ran up a credit card. This is happening on a national level. We are now a nation of slaves.

Because God is gracious and His judgments sometimes take years to be doled out, we think that we are fine. Judgment is here. With each bailout the nation confesses Obama (and big government) as the savior. God will not be mocked. If we go against God's ways (big government usurping authority... assuming responsibilities that God assigned to individuals) we will pay a dear price for generations to come... well... I guess that has already been decided... The judgement is the bailout. We just heaped on a whole lotta' judgment...