JULY 11, 2016

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What Does the Bible
Teach in Regards to
Property Rights?

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HE BIBLE IS PRO-PRIVATE PROPERTY
RIGHTS. There are many passages that support
this. Accordingly, all Governments — throughout
the world, nationally, and locally — should protect private
property rights. God knows that personal ownership of
private property is fundamental to every individual’s ability
to express his best possible self as a reflection of his being
created in God’s image (I will unpack that idea in this
study). In addition, private property rights are fundamental
to personal and national fruitfulness (we will see examples
of this in what follows also). So read on, my friend, and
learn more about how you can justify such beliefs based
upon what God has said in His Word.

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 What Does the Bible Teach in Regards to Property Rights?
Thomas Jefferson described his vision
for what government could do in this
arena: “[I see] equality of rights maintained, and that state of property,
equal or unequal, which results to every
man from his own industry, or that of
his fathers.”
— T  homas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address
(March 4, 1805).

It is one thing to say you are
“anti-communist” but can you
reason why from Scripture?

John Adams, our second President and
one of our greatest Founding Fathers,
explicitly referenced the importance of
the Eighth and Tenth Commandments
to property, and the significance of
both to a free society: “The moment
the idea is admitted into society that
property is not as sacred as the laws of
God, and that there is not a force of law
and public justice to protect it, anarchy
and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt
not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’
were not commandments of Heaven,
they must be made inviolable precepts
in every society before it can be civilized
or made free.”
—  George A. Peek Jr., ed., The Political Writings
of John Adams (New York: Liberal Arts Press,
1954), 148. [From John Adams’ “Defense of
the Constitutions of Government of the United States,” published in 1787]

I. INTRODUCTION
The biblically-based political ideology of
private property ownership stands in absolute and distinct contradiction to the
political ideology of Communism. As
Karl Marx said in his Communist Manifesto, “the theory of the Communists
may be summed up in a single sentence:
the abolition of private property.” If the
ideology of private property rights is the
main difference between Capitalism and
Communism, how can you rest assured,
and form deep convictions for the former
from Scripture? What passages come to
mind so as to substantiate that God is pro
private property? Another way to look at
this is the opposite: It is one thing to say
you are “anti-communist” but can you reason why from Scripture?
It follows that you should be able to give a
basis for being pro private property rights
(and therein Capitalism in general) via
the use of God’s Word. This study is designed to aid you in that quest and help
you to form personal and political convictions that are riveted upon God’s guidance
as explicated in and from His Revelation.
Before building a scriptural case for private property and Capitalism, let us first
begin by investigating the precedent that
God is the ultimate owner of everything.
II.  PASSAGE ON GOD’S
ULTIMATE OWNERSHIP OF
ALL PROPERTY
Scripture teaches that God is the ultimate
owner of the earth and all that is therein —
not communist Governments — and that
He desires individuals to be His stewards
of it. Note this first point in Psalm 24:1
and Deuteronomy 10:14 respectively:
The earth is the Lord’s and all it contains,
the world, and those who dwell in it.
“Behold, to the LORD your God belong

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heaven and the highest heavens, the earth
and all that is in it.”
In granting man stewardship responsibilities of that which He ultimately owns, He
has specifically entrusted the managerial
responsibilities of that which He owns to
the top of His creative order: Man, whom
He created in His image, unlike all other
aspects of His creation. This fundamental
idea is conveyed in Genesis 1:26-28:
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our
image, according to Our likeness; and let
them rule over the fish of the sea and over
the birds of the sky and over the cattle and
over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of
God He created him; male and female He
created them. God blessed them; and God
said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply,
and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule
over the fish of the sea and over the birds
of the sky and over every living thing that
moves on the earth.”
Incumbent in man’s stewardship role
over all of creation, God uses the descriptive word subdue (kabash) to encompass
what he specifically desires for man to
do: This Hebrew word, kabash, specifically means, “to bring into servitude.” In
Numbers 32:22-29, and Joshua 18:1 this
same word is used in a parallel contextual meaning: Israel is to subdue the land of
Canaan so that the land would serve Israel. Importantly, the contextual usage of
kabash as used here in Genesis 1 pertains
to God instructing those in His creation
who are made in His image to discover,
understand, develop, utilize and enjoy all
the earth’s over-abundant resources. Importantly and implied in God’s command
to man is this: Man is to carry out His
God-appointed stewardship responsibilities with respect and thanksgiving to Him.
Having first established this principle of
God’s ultimate ownership, the following
point need now be made: Even though

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God is the ultimate owner of everything,
Scripture repeatedly communicates — it
is said — that the property belongs to His
stewards: individuals.
Notice the word individuals. This is in
opposition to the idea of God conveying
property ownership to government, society or a nation as a whole. This conveyance
of ownership by God to man in specificity
is evidenced in the following passages:
III.  PASSAGES ON PERSONAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS
There are a myriad of passages that evidence God’s expectation of personal
ownership of His property — versus implications of governmental or societal
ownership of His property. Here are some
of those.
 

A.  THE EIGHTH
COMMANDMENT

“You shall not steal.”
Exodus 20:15 presumes that people own
something that can be stolen. For instance, I cannot take my neighbor’s donkey because it belongs to my neighbor. Or
as a modern example you cannot search
through my email files and give them to
whomever you choose unbeknownst to
me; to do so is to steal another’s property.
 

B.  THE TENTH
COMMANDMENT

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s
house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s
wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything
that belongs to your neighbor.”
Exodus 20:17 above, addresses the heart.
Covet (chamad) in this Hebrew passage
and epithumeo in Greek (cf. Rom. 7:7)
means “a strong desire; wantonness.” As
used in this context, it is the desire to take

from another what rightfully belongs to
him. Note specifically that the passage
does not say those things belong to the
community or the government; three
times the passage uses the word neighbor
(rea) meaning “a person, friend or fellow.”
Again, the passage reveals that the ox or
donkey is not owned by a government,
but by a person, friend or fellow: that is to
whom God says it belongs.
 

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C.  IRRESPONSIBLE
OWNERSHIP

“If, however, an ox was previously in the
habit of goring and its owner has been
warned, yet he does not confine it and it
kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be
stoned and its owner also shall be put to
death.”
Exodus 21:29 above, uses the word owner (baal) in relation to (in this case, being
an irresponsible owner) the bad behaving
ox. Further and important, this passage
reveals that to own something means you
are legally connected to it, to the extent
that one can be found personally liable for
damages caused by something he owns.
Such laws today, stemming from the Torah
— the first five books of the Bible, Genesis
Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy
— and its assumption of personal property rights, prove to be very motivational to
owners: they lead to being a good manager! Such laws breed personal asset management skills and its upside: the creation
of excellent value-added products. Such
ensuing motivations for creating excellent
products and services are not achieved in
communist nations where personal property rights and personal property liability
do not exist. Just this past week I toured
my friend’s value-added fresh corn packaging facility. Every night a crew comes
in to sterilize the plant to eliminate e.coli
and other possible bacterial contaminates
— all of which could harm a consumer. I
wager to say he would not be so motivated
if he did not himself own the corn, nor ulFor past studies or additional copies go to www.capmin.org

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HEN PASTOR Dale Walker began
ministering to the elected Public
Servants and Constitutional Officers of
the New York Legislature two years ago,
he knew of only three Christians.

Eager to begin his discipleship Bible studies, Pastor Walker selected challenging
topics such as, “Do Government Leaders
need God?” Not many Public Servants attended, so he began visiting offices, starting with a Public Servant whom God had
put on his heart. After a friendly 45 minute talk, Pastor Walker asked if the Public
Servant knew what it meant to be born
again. The Legislator said he wasn’t sure,
so Pastor Walker explained the Gospel.
“The next thing I knew I was asking him if
he wanted to ask Christ to come into his
heart and he reached over and closed the
door and accepted Christ.”
Over the next 18 months as Ministry
Leader in the New York Capitol, Pastor
Walker has visited numerous offices. He
has seen 13 Legislators and 1 Legislative
Director come to Christ, and is now in the
process of discipling them.
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Personal property ownership
is not a perfect cure-all in a
fallen world but nonetheless
is a better basis for economic
prosperity than all other
alternatives.

timately be liable for the product’s safety.
 

D.    MOVING A LANDMARK

“You shall not move your neighbor’s
boundary mark, which the ancestors have
set . . . .”
Deuteronomy 19:14 above, speaks to the
sin of moving the boundaries of land.
What infraction is there if it is not owned
by another person? Proverbs 23:10 adds in
this regard:
Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless.
Each of the two stanzas of this Proverb
serves to give insight into the meaning
of the other. Private ownership is in view
here: It is wrong to attempt to steal another person’s property because you figure
that person is unable to defend what is
rightfully his.
 

Churchill once quipped,
“Democracy is the worst form of
Government, except all the others!”

One of God’s fundamental
principles for Government
is that it is to grant private
ownership rights to
individuals.

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E.  THE YEAR OF THE
JUBILEE

Now our subject of study becomes increasingly interesting. Even Capitalism
and personal property ownership is not
a perfect national economic system in a
fallen world: Always keep in mind that
no economic system is perfect in a fallen
world! Churchill once quipped, “Democracy is the worst form of Government, except all the others!” It is only when Christ
returns and sets up His rule as the King of
Kings that there will be a perfect government on the earth.
The OT Book of Leviticus informs us that
every 50 years Israel’s people were to hit
the restart button on their personal property/capitalistic-based economy. Akin to
playing Monopoly today wherein one or
two players in time will monopolize all the
properties, in a fallen world some people
inevitably become economic juggernauts
while others less gifted or competitive

can and will fall to the wayside. Some are
not as strong or able as others and cannot
compete or gain wealth even though they
live in a personal-property-based culture.
Personal property ownership is not a perfect cure-all in a fallen world but nonetheless is a better basis for economic prosperity than all other alternatives. Relative to
this week’s study, the point to be underscored from Leviticus 25:10 is not how
this should or should not apply in America today, but this: “each of you shall return
to his own property.” As in the other aforementioned passages, God’s endorsement
of his own property (even with its faults)
is in view here.
 

F.  SUMMARY OF PASSAGES
ON PERSONAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS

The Bible speaks repeatedly regarding the
economic creation and well-being of a nation, and how that best occurs in what will
always be until Christ returns, an unfair,
disproportionately talented, fallen world.
The best system, says God’s Word is via a
Government being based upon and allowing personal private property rights. With
the caveat of the Year of the Jubilee, it is
safe to say that God is a Capitalist not a
Communist. The aforementioned five
passages illustrate and affirm that one of
God’s fundamental principles for Government is that it is to grant private ownership rights to individuals.
The economic principle that stems from
the Torah is this: necessary for achieving a
proper functioning, fruitful and prosperous nation in a material sense is personal
property ownership (The Bible does not
deem material things as evil; such thinking is a faulty dualism and the subject of
other studies). To violate God’s principle of private ownership, that is, to enact
some form or level of Communism in
a state is patently unbiblical and will ultimately lead to the demise of a nation’s

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motivation, economic engine, growth and
overall material well being of its people.
IV.  THE NATURAL TENDENCY
OF GOVERNMENT TO
OVERREACH
In a greater-than-just-material-concerns
sense, God has ordained four other separate institutions that He intends to function simultaneously and independently
of Government in order to best achieve
His purposes and herald the riches of His
grace (cf. Eph. 2:7) in a fallen world prior to His Second Coming. Government
is only one of five co-equal institutions.
And within that five institution spectrum
of each institution’s God-given respective
responsibilities, Government does what it
does better than the other institutions: in
two words, what Government does best
is to suppress evil. But keep in mind the
other four institutions, Marriage, Family,
Commerce and the Church, do what they
do better than Government! Government
cannot accomplish for a nation what the
other four can and do achieve much more
expeditiously and efficiently: Marriage
promulgates; the Family cultivates; Commerce invigorates; and the Church translates. Those theological pillars of institutional understanding are fundamental to
a biblical worldview and serve to qualify
the role of Government. What is also in
view, given this contextualization and the
focus of this study is this: The Institution
of Government is always on the prowl
desiring to play in the sandbox of every
other institution. But it makes a mess of
things whenever it does! Left to roam, it
soon wanders outside its God-designed
purpose: it perverts Marriage; it stymies
the Family; it encroaches on the Church;
and left to its self-centered ways it begins
to overstep Commerce — by eroding or
attacking private property rights! Government, it seems, finds the physique of Jabba
The Hutt to be attractive! Left unchecked,
Government will eclipse God’s separate
Institution of Commerce, which must

possess personal property rights in order
to flourish institutionally and materially
invigorate a nation.
The preponderance of Government is
nothing new. The Prophet Samuel spoke to
Israel about the increasing pervasive nature
of Civil Administrations when Israel first
mentioned the idea to him that they wanted their own King. Notice his sage response
to the nation Israel in 1Samuel 8:10-18:
So Samuel spoke all the words of the
LORD to the people who had asked of him
a king. He said, “This will be the procedure
of the king who will reign over you: he will
take your sons and place them for himself
in his chariots and among his horsemen
and they will run before his chariots. He
will appoint for himself commanders of
thousands and of fifties, and some to do
his plowing and to reap his harvest and to
make his weapons of war and equipment
for his chariots. He will also take your
daughters for perfumers and cooks and
bakers. He will take the best of your fields
and your vineyards and your olive groves
and give them to his servants. He will take
a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards
and give to his officers and to his servants.
He will also take your male servants and
your female servants and your best young
men and your donkeys and use them for
his work. He will take a tenth of your
flocks, and you yourselves will become his
servants. Then you will cry out in that day
because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not
answer you in that day.”
When Government goes unchecked it
begins to take from the people, confiscating more and more for itself. The word
take appears six times in this passage! Be
on guard: Runaway Government is normative in a fallen world! Therefore, as
exegetically substantiated in the previous
point . . . . It is God’s blueprint for a nation’s people — not its Government — to
possess the bulk of property and wealth of
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♥ VERSE OF THE WEEK

Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains,
The world, and those who dwell in it.

God is the ultimate owner of
the earth and all that is therein.
He desires individuals to be His
good stewards of it.
James Madison, the “Father of the
Constitution,” asserted that “Government is instituted to protect property
of every sort . . . This being the end of
government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to
every man whatever is his own . . . If
the United States mean to obtain or deserve the full praise due to wise and just
governments, they will equally respect
the rights of property, and the property
in rights.”
— J  ack N. Rakove, ed., Madison: Writings (New
York: Library of America, 1999), 515-16.
[James Madison, “Property” (March 29, 1792)]

It is God’s blueprint for a
nation’s people — not its
Government — to possess the
bulk of property and wealth of
the nation.

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When Government begins to
step outside of its biblically
specific purposes it becomes
vast, ghastly and monstrously
inefficient, resulting in the
eventual if not immediate
eclipse of its citizenry and their
liberties, thereby lessening
their personal abilities and
resourcefulness to reflect the
attributes of God to others.

the nation. It follows that Government —
according to the Bible — must be kept in
check lest it begin to think it can achieve
for its people tasks that are better suited
for fulfillment by God’s other ordained
institutions.

with no ability to gain working capital due
to a lack of collateral from property ownership, one cannot enter the capital market and germinate a product or service.
Desoto’s team attempted to build a house
in Peru. Here is what they went through:

The role of Government is limited to and
most efficient when rewarding those who
do good (i.e. in part those who provide
jobs for others due to their giftedness
should be rewarded and not penalized so
as to encourage them to create more jobs
and wealth for the nation) and punish
those who do evil (provide a strong judicial system internally and a strong military
force externally) (cf. Romans 13:1-8; 1Peter 2:13-14).

To obtain legal authorization to
build a house on state-owned land
took six years and eleven months
requiring 207 administrative steps
in 52 government offices . . . . To
obtain a legal title for that piece of
land took 728 [additional] steps.

When Government begins to step outside
of its biblically specific purposes it becomes vast, ghastly and monstrously inefficient, resulting in the eventual if not immediate eclipse of its citizenry and their
liberties, thereby lessening their personal
abilities and resourcefulness to reflect the
attributes of God to others.
V. P
  ERU, PRIVATE PROPERTY
AND POVERTY

The brilliant work of Peruvian
economist Hernando de Soto serves
to substantiate the aforementioned
biblical principle of private
property, and its absence being the
root cause of poverty.

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Peru is a good example of how the violation of private property principles entraps
a nation in poverty. The denial of private
property rights does not always rest on
the shoulders of communist ideology;
sometimes it results in supposed capitalist
countries such as Peru (what I call CINO
countries: “Capitalist In Name Only”).
The brilliant work of Peruvian economist
Hernando de Soto serves to substantiate
the aforementioned biblical principle of
private property, and its absence being
the root cause of poverty. When Governments hoard private property by making
their attainment next to impossible, they
stymie the creation of wealth in their own
nation. Such policies are extremely short
sighted. The root cause of poverty is this:

States Grudem regarding DeSoto’s similar attempt to obtain a permit to build a
small garment workshop on the outskirts
of Lima:
They worked at the registration
process six hours a day and it took
them 289 days! The cost was the
equivalent of $1,231 US dollars, or
thirty one times the monthly minimum wage equivalent (approximately three years salary) for the
ordinary person living in Peru.
Desoto has documented similar roadblocks in the countries of Egypt, Philippines and Haiti. Property ownership is
next to impossible in many third world
countries, thereby trapping its citizenry in
poverty! It is as if these country’s citizens
are living in a communist country. This
is not God’s design for Government! Such
backward, biblically negligent manifest
governmental ideology serves to illustrate
the wisdom of God’s ways. As with the
American Government land giveaway of
1889, as the individuals prosper from private property rights, so does the whole of
the nation and its administration.
Unfortunately however, as America jettisons its trust in the Torah, it follows that
there would be and are increasing threats
to, and the erosion of private property
ownership:

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VI.  A MERICAN
ENVIRONMENTALISM,
PRIVATE PROPERTY
AND POVERTY
After taking ten years to develop and after
only 25 years of operation, the San Onofre
nuclear power plant in San Clemente,
California closed due to incessant
lawsuits and subsequent delays caused by
environmental groups. The executive of
Southern California Edison, the utility
company championing the project,
concluded that would be their utility’s
last sortie into the nuclear power arena.
As a result, the utility has not attempted
to build another power plant on its own
private property.
When Environmentalist and their choking,
imbalanced regulations descended on the
logging industry in the Northwest, claiming
the Spotted Owl was an endangered species
(an owl that is a facsimile to the California
Spotted Owl which is in abundant supply),
they greatly diminished the industry;
50,000 jobs later, owners can no longer
harvest lumber at will.
In Santa Cruz, California, environmental
policies make it impossible to trim the
trees on one’s own private property even
when their overgrowth becomes a serious
fire threat.
These three cameos serve to illustrate
the encroachment of Government on
private property. In California, where our
family has resided for three generations,
there has been a huge stagnation in
development (especially compared to
Texas) since the adoption and requirement
of Environmental Impact Reports. The
bottom line is that even though private
property rights exists in the United States,
the economic benefits God intends from
private property ownership have been
greatly diminished — similar to those
of Peru. Viewed through the lens of the
ability to develop one’s private property,

it is the Government that in essence has
become the owner of the land! What a huge
philosophical about-face from the days of
the Great Oklahoma Land Rush wherein
the American Government gifted land to
its citizenry! The present overly regulatory
policies of our nation’s government,
biblically speaking, are and represent the
recipe for the road to poverty.
Additional erosion of private property
rights occurred under President Clinton
when during his tenure he issued executive
order 13061 whereby 10 additional rivers
per year will become federal property
even if they flow through private land.
Both Presidents Clinton and Obama have
enacted orders that confiscate millions of
acres of private land that will be effectively
removed from private use forever.
In summary of this point, it is the private
ownership of land that best serves the
continuing prosperity of any nation! One
only need study or visit regressive Russia
or inalterable India, both being lands of
plentiful natural resources but yet stuck in
the plight of poverty due to the fact that
their cultures are not informed by what
the Torah teaches concerning private
property rights! Therein lies the difference between nations of similar resources.
No wonder Thomas Jefferson said that the
United States would be different, stating
“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen
in his person and property, and in their
management.”1
It is hard to imagine that our nation would
ever even contemplate changing horses
after having ridden an Old Testament
stallion for so long — and having
experienced the absolute incomparable
thrill of riding it for so many years!

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“I found something awesome in knowing
God and I want everyone to know Him,”
he said.
One surprise for Pastor Walker was the
compassion he felt for Public Servants.
“One of the unexpected things that happened to me is, I went into this not expecting to love these people and not
expecting that God would give me the
passion for them that he has. It just blows
me away.”
When the Legislature is not in session,
Pastor Walker makes appointments and
travels the state of New York to visit Public
Servants in their district offices.
“One thing I have learned is that God
makes divine appointments and He can
cause me to meet anyone He wants me to
meet,” Pastor Walker said. “I think that is
because God wants people to know Him
and I am a Gospel on wheels.” cm

The bottom line is that even
though private property rights
exists in the United States,
the economic benefits God
intends from private property
ownership have been greatly
diminished — similar
to those of Peru.

VII.  BIG GOVERNMENT,
PERSONAL LIBERTY AND
REFLECTING THE IMAGE
OF GOD
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✔ ENDORSEMENT

“W

HAT CAPITOL MINISTRIES IS DOING is vitally
important.
Ultimately, if there is
anything Capitol
Ministries is about,
it is about disseminating the Truth to
the most influential
people in America,
and that my friends,
is the way to see that Truth is ultimately
disseminated to the whole nation.”
—Congressman Trent Franks
Arizona 8th District

As Government grows it eclipses personal liberty which in
part includes private property ownership. And as personal
liberties diminish, so does an individual’s ability to reflect the
glory of God to others. What do I mean by this? One example
is personal wealth. When an individual prospers he has more
to share with others: He has the opportunity to reflect, in
this case, the grace of God by giving to the needs of others
who are less fortunate, reflecting God’s attribute of care and
compassion. Often such expressions of love lead to the gospel
and another’s salvation! This is in juxtaposition to Government
taxing the wealth of individuals thereby denuding them of
their personal resourcefulness with the belief that it can meet
the needs of others more effectively. But in truth, God did
not ordain Government to play this role, and it is woefully
wasteful, impersonal and inefficient when it attempts to meet
the real needs of individual citizens — especially their spiritual
needs for regeneration, new life and victory over sin in Christ!
When Government sticks to its God-ordained job description
it achieves what other institutions cannot, and it simultaneously
empowers its citizens with individual liberty to reflect the glory
of God to other people.

Capitol Ministries is a ministry
organization that provides Bible studies,
evangelism and discipleship to political
leaders. Capitol Ministries was founded
in 1996 and has started ministries in
40 state capitols and dozens of foreign
federal capitols. cm

Mark Meadows, H: NC
Jeff Miller, H: FL
Randy Neugebauer, H: TX
Gary Palmer, H: AL
Steve Pearce, H: NM
Mike Pence, G: IN
David Perdue, S: GA
Robert Pittenger, H: NC
Mike Pompeo, H: KS
Bill Posey, H: FL
Tom Price, H: GA
Reid Ribble, H: WI
Cathy McMorris Rogers, H: WA
Cliff Rosenberger, H: OH
Mike Rounds, S: SD
Austin Scott, H: GA
Tim Scott, S: SC

VIII. SUMMARY

Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
in the Political Arena
Throughout the World

Bible Study Sponsors
Continued from page 1

The right to personal property, also known as Free Enterprise or
Capitalism, is the governmental economic system supported by
Scripture. Scripture does not support Communism. Whereas
the former leads to a prosperous nation, the latter leads to a
poverty stricken nation. Historic America serves as a wonderful
illustration of this biblical axiom. Accordingly, as lawmakers, do
not make an ideological shift at this point in our history. Do
not jettison our prosperous past that has been so beautifully
informed, and made possible by adherence to the Mosaic Law
contained in the Torah regarding personal property rights! cm

Jeff Sessionss, S: AL
Lamar Smith, H: TX
Marlin Stutzman, H: IN
Glenn Thompson, H: PA
John Thune, S: SD
Scott Tipton, H: CO
Tim Walberg, H: MI
Jackie Walorski, H: IN
Randy Weber, H: TX
Daniel Webster, H: FL
Lynn Westmorland, H: GA
Roger Williams, H: TX

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Merrill D. Peterson, Jefferson: Writings (New York: Library of America, 1984),
1398. [Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval ( July 12, 1816)]

Joe Wilson, H: SC
Rob Wittman, H: VA
Steve Womack, H: AR

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