Our freedom comes from God, and from being created in His image and likeness. The evidence for this is our free thought. No one, not even God can control your mind. Because we think freely, we have the "right" to express our thoughts with speech and behavior, such as spoken and written words, music, dance, sculpture, buildings, gardens, inventions, innovations, roads, bridges, homes, cars, etc etc. We have the "right" to own the fruit of our labor- As God said to Adam after he placed him in the garden to work, "you may eat (partake) of any tree in the garden", as a reward for his labor. God made the world, and gave it to mankind, and said that as we work in it, we have the right to keep or manage what our work produces.
Soon mankind realized that he could not provide everything his\her mind was capable of, completely on his own. So he enlisted workers and paid them so he could produce more. Others realized that their talents were valuable for making things that others needed, so they began to make them and trade what they had in exchange for the things other people made or had, that they needed. And POOF!
Free Enterprise was born!
With Israel ascension into the promise land, God gave us insight into how these exchanges were to be conducted. In the Law and in places like Proverbs he gave strict instruction about how we should treat each other in trade, and this included the poor.
God provided a moral "context" for our trading and buying and selling.
He gave us the Ten Laws, and then Torah, and then summed them all up with TWO.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.....and Love your neighbor as (in the same manner) you love yourself.
He also gave us a principle that is particularly helpful in all ways in business, education and government-
Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you... This is a practical instruction of the second Great Commandment.
These three powerful principles:
1. Love God
2. Love your Neighbor
3. The Golden Rule.....
together are the foundation for what I call "Righteous, Free Enterprise."
jeff@righteousfreeenterprise.net
www.facebook.com/righteousenterprise
twitter.com/godswork123
http://www.linkedin.com/in/godsworkinprogress
Soon mankind realized that he could not provide everything his\her mind was capable of, completely on his own. So he enlisted workers and paid them so he could produce more. Others realized that their talents were valuable for making things that others needed, so they began to make them and trade what they had in exchange for the things other people made or had, that they needed. And POOF!
Free Enterprise was born!
With Israel ascension into the promise land, God gave us insight into how these exchanges were to be conducted. In the Law and in places like Proverbs he gave strict instruction about how we should treat each other in trade, and this included the poor.
God provided a moral "context" for our trading and buying and selling.
He gave us the Ten Laws, and then Torah, and then summed them all up with TWO.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.....and Love your neighbor as (in the same manner) you love yourself.
He also gave us a principle that is particularly helpful in all ways in business, education and government-
Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you... This is a practical instruction of the second Great Commandment.
These three powerful principles:
1. Love God
2. Love your Neighbor
3. The Golden Rule.....
together are the foundation for what I call "Righteous, Free Enterprise."
jeff@righteousfreeenterprise.net
www.facebook.com/righteousenterprise
twitter.com/godswork123
http://www.linkedin.com/in/godsworkinprogress
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