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Many passages of Scripture have underlying themes or truths. These themes and the principles tied to them are not the primary messages of those passages of Scripture, but they typically are important and are just as valid as primary principles. Secondary principles also usually have very important points of application for us in daily living.
Consider these 12 parables of Jesus. Underlying Jesus’ main points about the kingdom of God are economic themes carrying ideas about personal responsibility. Many offer principles of broad application…
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Last time we began to explore specific ways the free enterprise system set the “virtuous wife” (v. 10) of Proverbs 31 free to benefit her husband and her entire household. All those things that social justice crusaders have told you about capitalism are wrong. I speak of the capitalist system under which the wife and mother in Proverbs 31 operates. This is capitalism, or the free market, as it was meant to operate.
Acting responsibly and to benefit, not just herself, but her loved ones as well, the noble wife works hard, invests wisely, makes a satisfying profit, and manages her assets well. She has not acted out of greed, but out of duty — but the reader can tell this woman finds both her work and its results intensely satisfying.…
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