Marx Problem Of Poverty

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Communism or God? In “The problem of Poverty” Kuyper has the view that we all need God in our lives. We cannot survive on our own. In contrast, in “The Communist Manifesto” Marx believes that socialism is the fix for our problem. He thinks that we should all have equal authority and power of our own lives. We should not trust anyone but ourselves to solve the problem. Throughout this paper, we are going to analyze the solutions that Kuyper and Marx suggest to fix our society. First we will look at them separately and then see where they agree and disagree. Both have strong opinions on how to fix the social crisis. Kuyper states that our social crisis is that we are all fallen human beings and we let that affect the way we treat our earth. …show more content…

Should we tackle large communities first, or do we start with the communities we are currently in? The way to answer these questions is to look at our history. We learn history to learn from our mistakes. Kuyper asks us to look at our past and determine if there is anything that has taught us something knew about our faith, as well as how would it help us today. When it comes to Christians trying to make a difference there are many possible ways to try. Two of the most prevalent ways throughout our history would be; going into a large crowd and speaking their mind and hoping that they will support their idea. Others would slowly make their idea known. In today 's society the best way to go about fixing our social crisis is by slowly working our way up to more and more people. The first place to start is in the church. Many of us live our lives without thinking of how we could glorify God in everything we do. For fellow believers, it takes self-control to live a life that is glorifying to our creator. As Christians, we should be willing to get up and leave everything behind to follow Him. Most of the time we do not trust that our God will have our back. We need to take a risk and trust in Him. Once we have given our lives to Him, he will use us to spread the goodness of his Word. Therefore, our plan must be to give up everything and trust in our Lord. He will take it from …show more content…

By giving our lives to him we will be free from the evil in our society. This is where the problem lies within our religion. Because we are all sinners, we think that we can do it all on our own. We would rather be with our friends than glorifying our God. Christians in today 's society have become extremely self-centered. If it does not help us in any way, then we don’t want to do it. Because of our self-centeredness we think that we can fix the social problem by ourselves. If we try to convince people that they need God in their lives, but we don’t even think we need him; how well is that going to work? Not very well. Kuyper says that as Christians, before we help any of our fellow brothers and sisters in need that we need to make sure that we are doing it for the right reasons. As we serve, we should also find ways to show God 's’ glory through what we are doing instead of what we are

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