Economics 101 in 7 great quotes (6 min)
David Bahnsen’s company manages more than $3.5 billion in client assets but, in Reformed circles, he might be best known as the son of presuppositional apologist Greg Bahnsen. Here he gives a fantastic primer on economics using seven key quotes. (For more check out his book There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths.)
Why a seven-day week?
Years come from the rotation of the Earth around the Sun, and months come from the lunar cycle, so where does the week come from? Christians know it springs from the Creation Week, of course. The world has tried to tinker with seven days, trying from 5 to 10 day “weeks” but 7 keeps winning.
How well are we fulfilling God’s original command?
ARPA Canada asks, how well are Canadians doing with God’s “be fruitful and multiply” command (Gen. 1:28)? Their answer? Not so good – were it not for immigration, our population might be shrinking! Their solution? We need to better foster an appreciation for children, which includes not aborting 75,000+ of them each year. That’s a very good suggestion
But another is less clearly so. While acknowledging “changing the cultural conversation about children isn’t primarily the task of the government” they do suggest government child benefit cash transfers and more generous parental leaves. But were parental leaves first put in place to enable families to prosper, or to encourage women to get out of the home? These leaves increases the tax burden, making them one more reason it’s difficult for families to get by on a single income. The secular world demands cradle-to-grave care from their government, turning to it as a stand-in for the God they deny, but Christians who know the government to be limited, fallible, and flawed, should ask for much less. So yes, to pressing for protection of the unborn, but let’s say no to more government programs aimed at “supporting” the family.
This Texas teen wanted an abortion. She now has twins. (10-min read)
Something to celebrate: Texas has passed one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country and the Washington Post just shared the story of a teen couple the law prevented from aborting their twins. They didn’t mean to share a pro-life story. However, when they contrast what these two gave up, with the two living babies and a pro-choice mom who is grateful for them and wondering what would have happened to them but for this new law, it is pro-life indeed.
The CRC takes a stand on sexuality
More to celebrate: “Last week, the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s 2022 Synod overwhelmingly voted to uphold its historic confessional position that the Bible permits sexual activity only within a marriage between one man and one woman. ….This move came as a surprise to many outside the denomination, though a very welcome one…. [U]p to a third of the professors at Calvin University opposed the decision. By contrast, the vote at Synod was not close. The motion carried 123 to 53.”
How to greet the end of Roe vs. Wade
49 years after the Roe vs. Wade US Supreme court decision made abortion legal in the US, it has been overturned. It’s a moment to thank God… and get to work. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade doesn’t make abortion illegal but simply makes it possible to do so.
New restrictions will mean more living babies and a need for more adoptions and more crisis intervention to enable these children to stay with the mothers who do want them. So there will be a need for more generosity from God’s people. Click on the link above for what the Church can do. Watch the video below to see just how demonic the opposition is outing itself to be. If they can’t murder babies, they’re going to turn to violence and vasectomies! A word of warning about language – specifically f-bombs – that are mostly but not entirely bleeped.
