To Kelly my niece by marriage who asked a question because of a quiz I took on Facebook about presidents.  She wanted to know why I disliked Carter.  Knowing he was a Christian I did not understand some of the things he did as they did not seem right to me so I set about finding out about why he thinks the way he does.  So below is the answer to her question.

Social liberalism, a reformulation of classical liberalism, rests on the view that unrestrained capitalism is a hindrance to true freedom. Instead of the negative freedom of classical liberalism, social liberals offered positive freedom that would allow individuals to prosper with public assistance in health, education and welfare. This later included government intervention in the economy to provide full employment and protection of human rights. These policies were widely adopted and implemented in European and Western democracies, particularly following the Second World War.  Social liberal ideas and parties tend to be considered centrist centre-left.My belief is that when you allow socialistic ideas to interact with your belief’s you lose your God given freedom, you learn to depend on government, not God.  Depending on government hinders your thinking, changes your desire to grow, your ideas to create new business and new art and what and how you can write..  The government tells you how to run your business, how we should think and even who and what we should give our money to.  It is happening now in our country.  Socialism never worked before and it will not work now. 

My major in college was philosophy, and I found it interesting, but I was so well founded in the Bible that I always looked to what God said and not mans ideas.  The thing that gives me hope is that I understand that God’s word never changes, but man’s ideas have and do change continually about how we should then live. Now men can get caught in the teachings of others and it affects the way they see the Bible. That is why it is also important to pray that the spirit gives you understanding.  There are passages in the Bible that are hard to understand and I have prayed for understanding and still do not quite understand, usually because there are two thoughts on the passage, but I find the more I study the more I grow in understanding.

I have also read the great preachers of the church and their thinking and found that they make sense. Even those that are hundreds of years old stay true to the Bible, but philosophy changes from man to man and year to year.

Many cults have started by men who captured the ideas of a certain philosophers and mix them with the Bible and what they teach become heresy.  I hope you don’t wish you  never asked the question. It is never about what man thinks, but about what God says.

John  8: 32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.