Muehlenberg Again!

Bill Muehlenberg’s blog has provoked me to the word processor again! In a triumphant piece on the French presidential elections entitled Conservatives 1, Socialists 0, he berates the progressive political groups again. So I gave him the following reply

And what if the Socialists win the next election? Success and the proper way are transitory this side of glory. Whatever is the shape of the great eschatological event, sin will continually dominate all human affairs. The divine counter balance is in John 3:16; Christ came because God love the whole world. My interpretation is that means Christians and everyone else.

One silly question, when has a good society be determined by its economic performance alone. Why is the Stefan Bergheim of Deutsche Bank Research economic centric approach to the good society the ultimate measure for any Christian? Luke’s Gospel and Acts seems to disagree Wilkinson assertion that “welfare handouts, lower levels of inequality, and bigger government have little or no positive effect” on happiness. How does that equate with the common purse of Acts 4 and 5 or the parable of the dishonest servant of Luke 16?

The layout of the last paragraph is questionable but, I think, one understands the general is idea.