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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand August 9, 1973 The UTAH Independent Page 5 Faith and Works JEAN STODDARD COLUMN What is Socialism? Granting that there is no Jean Stoddard in" thing today The political philosophy is a often referred to as socialism. It is fashionable, but completely foreign to the traditional concept of Americanism. It is the opposite of free enterprise, Under socialism everything would be owned and controlled by the state. Now, whenever a law is passed that takes away a right of the people to have absolute ownership and control of their property that is a step toward total socialism. Socialism is not new. It is as old as Cain. The founding fathers of our country were well acquainted with it. They rejected the Virginia Plan that proposed the U.S. Congress be given the power to legislate in all causes in which the separate states were incompetent." And before that the pilgrims tried socialism, having all things in common, Many starved. The colony was all but lost before they adopted the philosophy of private property. Immediately prosper. they began to Socialism is full of flaws and errors, proven by its countless failures. Probably the greatest error of all is that the end justifies the means". Socialists believe it is all right to take the money of those who work in large or small) to place a tax gun" at the head of the minority and force from them money to finance projects they believe to be good" Some justify socialism on the grounds that it is Christian, but forcing people to give is not Christian. When Christians allow themselves to follow socialistic ideals they find they are going in the opposite direction from which they intended, Both the Constitution and the teachings of Christ put value on the individual. To Socialists the individual means nothing, Neither the Constitution nor the Ten Commandments guarantee security to anyone, except that which one can obtain by his own efforts, Because a majority or a minority demand something does not mean it is the right thing. A majority crucified Christ. A majority permitted the reign of terror in the French Revolution. A majority voted Hitler into power. Majorities are not necessarily right. That is why some actions are forbidden to the majority by the U.S. Constitution. Under the just and known principles of the U.S. Constitution, America became the envy of the world. We took in order that they might the sick, the tired and the poor of accomplish their goal of an ideal Europe. We gave them freedom society, where everyones to work, to try, to succeed, or fail, problems would be solved by and we became a great nation, extremely well paid planners. Shall we trade our heritage for a Those who are currently being mess of pottage? gored by OSHA or County Planning, Zoning or some of the other multitude of illegal bureaucratic schemes, will agree that government planning has created hundreds of problems where there were none before. Imagine yourself without ownership of anything nothing you could really call your own. No land. No car. No house. No furniture. No money. It would all belong to the state. would be completely You dependent on the state for everything. The ideal kind of society found under socialism, is the same society a prisoner finds who is fed, clothed, cared for and told what he must do. Under socialism there is a so-call- MARILYN MANION ed salvation in the affirmative. My reasons are as follows: (1) Jesus said, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him Whom He hath sent. (John 6:29) Previous to this, He had been asked, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? While the work is of God it is also, of necessity, of man. 1 John 3:23 states, And this is His That we commandment, should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ. How can we faithfully keep His commandments if we fail to. do the works of God including the work of faith? Heb. 11:6 reads, But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. This implies a working faith. Without it we can never be pleasing to God. (2) Paul mentions in Gal. 5:6 a faith which worketh by love. He bears out that in Christ the matter of circumcision doesn't mean a thing; but, the thing that matters is a working faith your question the part of one that Galatians the on worked by love. That they needed this is evident. Some were removed by love. That they needed this is evident. Some were removed from Him that had called them (1:6); others were fallen from grace (5:4). Additionally James tells us that faith, apart from works, is dead. (James 2:17,20,26). LACK OF ENERGY twenty to forty miles per Doctors tell us that its better to walk than ride. Pretty soon, we may have no choice in the matter. Whether dollar is gas worth gallon will be academic if the stations are closed. To get a feel of the future, try setting out on a Sunday drive when your tank is nearly empty. You might have to walk home. It is a rather interesting that the gasoline shortage should occur at the same time that new cars, complying with the pollution-contro- l laws, are designed to eat up twice as much fuel as the models of yesteryear. (Obviously I am no chemist, because I cant figure out the logic of it all: My old car burns half as much gas and emits twice as much pollution per gallon, while a new one uses double the amount of fuel the pollution per at one-ha- lf gallon, while a new one uses double the amount of fuel the f one-hal- rate, it seems to me that it all adds up to the same thing, except that I'll be paying twice as much for gasoline. Maybe the whole point is to make it too expensive to drive a car at all, which would certainly put a stop to those nasty emissions altogether.) Richard P. Runyon and Lawrence Rocks, writing in National Review (The Lights are Going Out, July .6, 1973), suggest that What we really need is to discard the philosophy that led to the Clean Air Act of 1970 and substitute one that could lead to an y act. This autos us good for might give pollution-emissio- n fuel Reducing will also reduce pollution itself. The requirements so-call- consumer ed advocates who call for pollution abatement at any cost are really pricing the a coincidence at gallon. a auto-efficienc- (3) Writing to Christians in the city of Thessalonica, Paul penned these words: Remembering security" but no freedom. It is wrong for one man to steal what belongs to another. It is also wrong for a majority (whether without believing in Jesus Christ, is believing a work? And whose work is it? Because the Bible states that believing is a work, 1 am constrained to answer out consumer - " of the transportation market, and indirectly out of his home. long as fuel is scarce and expensive, we will be As constrained fuel-efficie- to accept systems: nt Instead of houses, well be forced into apartments; instead of autos, well need buses; instead of suburban living, well be compacted along the arteries of mass transit. The whole dilemma has been brought upon us by the same people who help produce brownouts and blackouts -- the - environmentalists. They aggravatedthe fuel shortage by forbidding have drilling, the Alaska pipeline, and research on the development of new sources of energy. Surely there must be a way of preserving the earth while still allowing us to live on it! off-sho- re Observes Stanton M. of Our Evans in the May 26 issue Human Events : primitive untended with its worship of its cult ecological . nature, tor fish over preference people, suggests an interior malaise - expressed as a kind of death wish for Western man and his society. If the energy crisis is allowed to run on much longer, that wish could very possibly be fulfilled. American War Features without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our A A A & A A A A AAAAAAcAA"AA A A A A A A AAAg LISTEN TO LARRY WILCOX Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Thess. 1:3) Father. (1 Here, the self-eviden- t! faith truth is The work of that of the was Thessalonian Christians. these From accounts I three can draw no While it is the work of God it is also required to be one lof the works of man. (3) A faith void of works is valueless. Victor Knowles Eugene. Oregon Always A JingsijL Our prices are lowest for: fold, SltftaqsL SALE Lnmber Hardware Plumbing 4c other conclusion than this: (1) Faith is a work. (2) CHOICE MEATS We are far the Do-It-Yoursel- The Handyman The Professional x 2.92-72- 71 Local or Toll.Free, 2-5360 AAAAAAAAAAAAA A AA AAAAAAAAAA ehetcmujimps Salt Lake Ogd INDIVIDUAL LOCKERS 470 South Main Bountiful 84010 (801)295-161- 1 |