No, Jesus Was Not A Socialist: A Biblical Response to a Modern Lie

No, Jesus Was Not A Socialist: A Biblical Response to a Modern Lie (c) 2025 Tribe of Christians

Recently, a viewer commented on one of my videos claiming that “Jesus was a socialist.” That single comment is what pushed me to sit down and write this. Not because I’m offended, but because this idea has become one of the most significant symptoms of biblical illiteracy taking hold in America.

We are watching socialism creep its way into our cities, our schools, and even into the language of Christians who should know better.

So let me be absolutely clear:

Jesus was not a socialist. 

He is the Son of God — the King of Kings — the Author of freedom, not the propagator of political bondage.

His Kingdom is built on righteousness, stewardship, and truth, not coercion, control, or forced equality. To claim otherwise is to rewrite the Bible, ignore Scripture, and craft a Jesus made in the image of man-made ideology.

Here are 10 reasons that prove Jesus was not a socialist:

1. Dominion and Stewardship — The Genesis of Ownership

From the very beginning, God established the framework for individual responsibility and private ownership. In Genesis 1:28, the Word says, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion…” 

The Hebrew term radah means to rule, manage, govern, oversee, and steward. God was not building a collectivist system. He gave the earth to mankind in the form of delegated responsibility, not government supervision.

Adam was placed in the Garden “to tend it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15), meaning his labor, his care, and his fruitfulness were directly tied to his personal stewardship. Even the restriction concerning the forbidden tree established clear boundaries of ownership, which belonged to God; what was entrusted to Adam remained Adam’s. That single boundary line was the divine blueprint for private property. Socialism removes those boundaries. God established them.

2. The Ten Commandments Presuppose Ownership

The concept of ownership is not a political theory; it is embedded in God’s moral law. When God commanded, “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15), and “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house… or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Exodus 20:17), He affirmed that what someone owns is theirs by right.

These commandments do not apply in a socialist system, because socialism asserts that everything belongs to the collective or the state. God disagrees. The moment He says “your neighbor’s,” He affirms personal property, personal responsibility, and the sinfulness of taking what does not belong to you.

Theft, covetousness, and state-forced redistribution all violate God’s design for stewardship. The fact that God condemns these behaviors proves He recognizes individual ownership and expects mankind to respect it.

3. God Grants the Power to Produce Wealth

Deuteronomy 8:18 states plainly, “It is He who gives you power to get wealth.” Wealth creation is not a product of government. It is a gift from God, a divine empowerment.

Scripture consistently honors diligence, hard work, entrepreneurship, and the ability to build generational blessings. Proverbs teaches repeatedly that lazy hands produce poverty while diligent hands bring wealth (Proverbs 10:4).

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children (Proverbs 13:22). You cannot leave an inheritance if you do not own anything. You cannot build a legacy if everything belongs to the state. God created an economic system built on opportunity, not dependency.

On responsibility, not redistribution. On covenant blessing, not government control. Socialism undermines the very principles God established for prosperity.

4. Jesus Taught Stewardship, Not Socialism

When Jesus taught about money, labor, and responsibility, He never endorsed collectivism or economic equality. Instead, He taught stewardship, accountability, and reward according to faithfulness.

In the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30), the Master entrusts his wealth to individual servants, each responsible for increasing what they were given. The ones who worked were rewarded. The one who refused to labor was condemned. And the Master took from the unfaithful and gave more to the faithful, a divine redistribution upward, based on responsibility, not equality.

In Luke 19:13, Jesus commands, “Occupy till I come,” where the Greek pragmateuomai means to trade, invest, and conduct business. Even in Acts 5:4, Peter affirms that believers owned their property and had complete control over it.

The early church practiced voluntary generosity, not forced redistribution. Charity is holy. Coercion is not.

5. Jezebel and Naboth — God’s Judgment Against Government Seizure

The story of Naboth’s vineyard in 1 Kings 21 is one of the most explicit biblical condemnations of state-enabled theft.

Ahab wanted Naboth’s vineyard simply because it was close to his palace. Naboth refused because it was his God-given inheritance. Jezebel then used political power, false witnesses, and government authority to seize what did not belong to her. God’s response was immediate and severe.

Through Elijah, God declared judgment on both Ahab and Jezebel, promising that dogs would lick Ahab’s blood and eat Jezebel’s flesh, fulfilled exactly as spoken.

This narrative is not just about a vineyard. It is a divine warning to any government, ruler, or system that steals, seizes, or confiscates property. God personally defends the inheritance of the righteous. Socialism repeats Jezebel’s sin on a national scale.

6. The Sacredness of Boundaries and Inheritance

God treats land boundaries as sacred — boundaries established not by governments, but by covenant and inheritance. Deuteronomy 19:14 commands Israel not to remove their neighbor’s landmark.

Proverbs 22:28 repeats the warning.

These laws exist because God honors generational inheritance.

Isaiah 5:8 pronounces woe on those who consolidate houses and fields “until there is no place left,” describing centralization of ownership under the hands of the elite or the state.

Socialism is built on the belief that the government should own, control, or redistribute land and property. God explicitly condemns such systems. The Kingdom of God distributes inheritance, authority, and blessing through covenantal stewardship, rather than through political power or state control.

7. God’s Warning to Nations That Divide His Land

What God applies to individual inheritance applies tenfold to Israel’s national inheritance. God calls the land of Israel “My land” and “My heritage.” In Joel 3:1–2, He declares judgment on all nations that divide His land.

Every nation pushing for a two-state solution, partitioning Jerusalem, or carving up Israel is repeating the sin of Jezebel by attempting to seize what belongs to God alone.

Zechariah 2:8 warns that anyone who touches Israel touches the apple of God’s eye.

This is not a political debate; it is a covenant issue. When nations divide what God calls His inheritance, they place themselves under divine judgment. What God gives as an inheritance is not open for negotiation.

8. God Condemns Forced Redistribution and Government Theft

The prophet Micah condemns systems that devise plans to seize land, control resources, and dispossess families of their homes (Micah 2:1–2).

He describes leaders who wake up early “to practice it because it is in their hands.” This is socialism summarized: the political ability to take from one and give to another under the guise of “justice.”

But the Bible calls it oppression.

God never equates forced redistribution with righteousness. True biblical justice defends the oppressed; false justice uses government to oppress the righteous. When leaders seize wealth or property by force, Scripture calls it evil, no matter what label society puts on it.

9. God Blesses Free Labor and Honest Exchange

Deuteronomy 28:8 says God will bless everything to which you set your hand. Not the state’s hand. Not the collective’s hand. Your hand. 

The biblical model is initiative, labor, enterprise, and freedom under God.

Paul reinforces this repeatedly: believers are instructed to “work with your own hands” (1 Thessalonians 4:11), and that “each person must bear his own load” (Galatians 6:5).

God designed mankind to be creators, workers, and builders, not dependents of the state. Dependency produces bondage. Diligence produces freedom. Socialism thrives on dependency. The Kingdom thrives on stewardship.

10. The Kingdom Pattern — Freedom, Stewardship, and Reward

God’s economic pattern never changes. It is built on three pillars:

Freedom — the right to labor, produce, and own what you create (Genesis 1:28).

Stewardship — accountability before God to manage what you’ve been entrusted with (Matthew 25:21).

Reward — blessing, increase, and inheritance for faithfulness (Deuteronomy 28:1–12).

The Final Call

Socialism replaces these pillars with control, dependency, and punishment for success. It seeks equality of outcome through force instead of equality before God through righteousness. It is the opposite of the Kingdom of God and directly contradicts the principles the Bible teaches from Genesis to Revelation.

We are watching an ideological battle unfold in America. Systems built on deception, false compassion, and human control are collapsing under their own weight. People are looking for political saviors while rejecting the only Savior who can bring true freedom. Socialism is not compassion — it is bondage disguised as justice. And Jesus Christ did not come to endorse bondage; He came to set captives free.

Our hope is not in political reform. Our hope is in the Kingdom of God — a Kingdom rooted in truth, stewardship, righteousness, and divine inheritance. The rising tide of socialism in cities like New York is not just a political shift; it is a spiritual battle over truth itself.

To New York, and to every nation listening, the Lord is calling:

Repent. Return. Remember your inheritance.

“For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” – 2 Corinthians 3:17