Christianity and Society: Part 1

Benefit to the individuals composing the population

 

Welcome back to my blog. I do appreciate you visiting. 

 

In recent blogs we have been exploring the exciting topic of how biblical truth enhances personal wellbeing. However, Christianity offers advantages not only to the individual, but to society as a whole. This has been an understudied and unappreciated benefit of Christianity to the world especially where it has been implemented in what became first world countries.

 

Academics who hate Christ want to dismiss Christianity frequently based on humanism, the inquisition, and the crusades. However, the overwhelming evidence is that there exists a general benefit to society of Christianity based: on economics, relief for the poor, education, medical care and freedoms. Let’s explore Christianity’s benefit to whole populations and associated Teleios research.

 

Christianity and society

 

• Bible based Christianity and society – We emphasize the term ‘biblical Christianity,’ as opposed to the organized hierarchical church, because the two have different goals and are based on a different set of beliefs. Biblically based Christianity promotes an organized society, based in the individual that encourages Christians to:
• Work and provide for their family (2 Thessalonians 3:10-12)
• Obey the government and pay their taxes (Romans 13:1-7)
• Maintain a good reputation in their work (1 Timothy 3:7)
• Be non-violent (1 Timothy 3:2)
• Raise responsible children (1 Timothy 3:4-5),
• Be honest (Ephesians 5:9)
• Do good to all men (Galatians 6:10)
• Biblical Christianity’s effect on society – These biblical exhortations to individual Christians work then to profit society on two broad levels: first, at the governmental level; and second, in the local and national societal levels.
• Local communities and governments – These institutions typically benefit from biblical Christianity working at the individual and church levels because they promote a community and organizations that help each other, assist the poor, benefit the general wellbeing of the community, and support the local government.
• Federal government – The national government benefits from a society based in biblical Christianity because the Bible promotes honest, hardworking individuals who minimize the need for government action to maintain order. Christianity helps build a population of individuals with strong character to serve in the bureaucracy, work hard to progress the economy, be responsible for family and friends, serve in the armed forces and bureaucracy and promote order in society.
• The importance of the historical hierarchal church – This form of the church generally is grounded in certain man-made institutions that often distort, or add to, the Bible. Nonetheless, the hierarchical church has performed many important functions historically, especially in the Middle Ages when the governments themselves were often weak:
• The maintenance of important historical documents for future generations
• Provision of an organized government and society
• The promotion of education, elderly care, and healthcare
• Secure living arrangements and employment for both men and women
• Organization of community defense arrangements
• Providing for societal order that allowed for families providing for themselves in honest labor and ultimately the expansion of commerce

 

However, the hierarchical church’s departure from biblical Christianity from the late Middle Ages onward, helped cause, in combination with increasingly despotic humanistic kings, several unhealthy societal trends such as war, oppression, corruption and totalitarianism based in political opportunism, wealth and power. Its forceful influence was from a non-biblical top-down perspective.

 

OK, let's stop there for today. Next time let's explore what our response should be as Christians of these benefits that our religion provides to society. That is the key question as Christians often are reticent to speak up and defend their religion versus a government and educational institutions that dislike and mock us. Ultimately, we will explore some of the research that Teleios has performed showing the benefits of Christianity in society. The results are striking! 

 

Thanks again for joining me today I will look for you next time. 

 

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William C. Stewart, MD

 

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