Let’s break it on down. It has been said, “Everyone has a right to decent medical care.”
No. You cannot posit a positive right. Rights, by definition, are granted by God. Our world is fallen, and God has commanded certain things as restrictions on human behavior to prevent injustice. Justice does not permit one person any claim on whatever God has granted to another. About the best way to word this is “zero aggression.” If you aggress, the other has the right to defend. There are plenty of statements of principle in Scripture, numerous concrete examples and anecdotes, so there’s no excuse for not understanding this. Yes, it is contextual, and requires a discerning mind of justice arising from God’s revelation.
We could go on at length, but let’s pull out the unspoken assumptions here so we can see what was meant by the original statement above:
“We assume if you have any material prosperity at all, you cannot have gotten it without being unjust. Therefore, you are obliged to surrender your property to the comfort of others. Since we don’t trust you to do it justly, we will direct this equitable redistribution on your behalf. We will collect from you, by force, however much we decide is just, and distribute as we see fit. You have no say in the matter, and attempts to have your say will be treated as open rebellion and treason. A primary objective is to fund an equitable distribution of medical services, according to our conceptions of what is equitable. Naturally, we will exempt ourselves from all this, because we are better than you.”
Let me explain something so everyone can understand it. God has given each man the right to resist such massive government theft. It is no sin to take up arms and resist the intentions of such a government. Now, granted, we do have a serious problem with how most people in the US gain their wealth, but that’s a separate matter, and absolutely a sin for any government to attempt to settle unless such government happens to be related to all the governed by blood or marriage. Fixing that problem will go a long way to gaining God’s approval.
