Forming A Christian Left

It is possible to create an economy based on Christian Fundamentalism, which does not use money, which is not based on greed, which eliminates most financial crime and does not need a state to protect it in the way capitalism does. This is a system based on the free market and the protection of private property rights.

Economics is fundamental to the way God created the universe. If you consider the fact that God is all-powerful everything He does He does because He willed it; He is free of all compulsion.

God created the universe out of choice. Choices always reflect our values. Since God created the universe its creation was something He wanted to see exist. His other option was to do nothing. God called His creation good because His creation reflected His Will. It was as He wished it to be.

God created mankind and since this was another choice God choose to make we can be assured that we were a creation that God desired to come about. He choose us over all other created things because we were of greater value to Him. The thing that one values above all other things is said to be the thing one loves. Love is a measure of how deeply a thing is valued vis-vis all else.

God created us out of choice, by choice from choice and because of the way we were created we have choice. Choice is the fundamental constituent of the universe. Some people say the universe is made out of energy, but what is energy? Some say energy is the capacity for doing work as when we say: 'That person has a lot of energy'. But work is what a subject does, not what it is.

We are made out of choice and this is why we have choice as a house has bricks because this is what it is made out of. We see choice as the real things of the world. We are able to value these things God created because choice is about the expression of our values. A choice has structure. Choices have costs. A choice is not about choosing which breakfast cereal to buy; the choice is not made until the purchase is paid for. A choice has costs and if these costs are not met then the choice is not completed.

A choice is a transaction in that it always has a buyer and a seller. A transaction cannot be completed unless both buyer and seller concur with the terms of the transaction. In a transaction both the buyer and the seller gain because both buyer and seller obtain something they value more than what they gave, to fulfill the terms of the transaction.

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