In the Parable of the Talents, Jesus
acknowledges that differences in an individual’s skill and work ethic means
they are treated differently:
“[The
master] called his [three] servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one, He gave five bags of gold, to another
two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability” (Matthew 25:14-15).
When the master later checked on the three, he found one had produced an additional five portions; the second, two more portions; but the third had done absolutely nothing. He rewarded the three based on what each had individually done. [This is a core practice of the free-market system.]
Jesus then complained: “A system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of America where people are impoverished just isn’t right.”
Oh wait— those weren’t the words of Jesus; they are the words of our socialist governmental officials. Their socialist beliefs reject the free-market approach set forth by Jesus.
In Jesus’ parable, there was neither a bottom nor a top wage; each individual was rewarded “according to his own ability.” As Jesus affirmed: “For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them” (Matthew 25:29).
This economic principle articulated by Jesus has proven to be sound across the ages. In fact, almost two millennia later, Thomas Jefferson expressed Jesus’ principle in these words:
“To
take from one because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers
has acquired too much, in order to spare [give] to others, who (or whose
fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily
the first principle of association: the guarantee to everyone the free exercise
of his industry [hard work] and the fruits acquired by it.”
Both history and common sense prove that the economic teachings of Jesus are much sounder than those of socialist elected officials.
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