Pastor Emeritus Tim Keller says many needful things:
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"The Bible teaches that sin is pervasive
and universal. We are each members of a race or nationality that contains much
unique common grace to contribute to the world. But every culture also comes with
particular sinful idolatries. No race or people group is inherently more sinful
than others. But in this postmodern view of justice groups are assigned higher
or lower moral value depending on their power, and some groups are denied any
redeeming characteristics at all. To see whole races as more sinful and evil
than other races leads to things like the Holocaust." https://www.christianpost.com/news/critical-theory-is-not-biblical-justice-it-locates-evil-in-the-wrong-place-tim-keller-explains.html
However, in the same article, Keller puts forth some
dangerous and unbiblical ideas:
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"To treat all of your profits and assets as
individualistically yours is mistaken. Because God owns all your wealth (you
are just a steward of it), THE COMMUNITY HAS SOME CLAIM ON IT (emphasis mine).
Nevertheless, it is not to be confiscated. You are to acknowledge the claim and
voluntarily be radically generous. This view of property does not fit well with
either a capitalist or a socialist economy,"
While it is true that we belong to our Savior and so too our
wealth, there is nothing in the Bible that states that the community can also
lay claim to it. If our wealth belongs to God, then the community has no right
to confiscate what belongs to God.
Yes, we are to be “radically generous.” However, if the
community has a right to our wealth, then generosity is no longer generosity but
obligation. Despite Keller’s warning that individual holdings should not be
confiscated, he has justified confiscation, even muggings, home invasions, and other
forms of criminality to reclaim what they “deserve.”
Keller correctly notes, “To see whole races as more sinful
and evil than other races leads to things like the Holocaust." However, it
seems like he fails to see the dangers inherent in teaching that “the community
has some claim on” the possessions of others.
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