Ruling Class: A Biblical View

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. (Pro 22:7)

The problem is not that we have a ruling class. A ruling elite is present (and necessary) in every society. (Not a popular view among Christians who subscribe to a belief in "democratic" ideals)

The problem goes back to a time when Christians ceded rule to Enlightenment humanists. They [we] have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage.

The Great Commission (Matthew 28:17-20) clearly shows that the King intends for His people to exercise dominion over the nations for the purpose of subduing them to His reign. Significantly, the methods He taught His disciples in order to accomplish this are not primarily political.

Christians take dominion through a Redemptive Message and obedience to the Royal Law. I call this two-pronged approach Gospel words backed up by Gospel deeds.

About 1660, Christians began to lose sight of their mission's primary objective: to lead the nations into obedience to Christ. They began to interpret the faith in primarily personal terms: soul-saving and pietism. They forgot that evangelism and pious living are means to an end, not ends in themselves.

But when Christians began to think of their faith in strictly personal terms, dominion over society became an unnecessary -- even repugnant -- idea.


To be continued