Christian concept of stewardship.

Christianity is based on the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. The Bible states that everything on this Earth belongs to God and we are His stewards. We are responsible to God for our stewardship of the resources God puts at our disposal and we are to see to it that those resources are used profitably and in line with the teachings we received from the beginning through the teachings of Christ and His emissaries: the Apostles. We are explicitly forbidden in the Ten Commandments to commit acts of theft and we are also forbidden to covet resources that do not belong to us. Lest anyone thinks that this is an invitation toward selfishness, let me remind them that the Second Great Commandment instructs us to love our neighbor as much as we love ourselves. And the teachings of Christ made it clear that we are to engage in helping those in need. I am not going into details here, though Christ defined the "neighbor" in his parable of the Good Samaritan, so there is no excuse that we do not know. The Christian model fit all manners of economic systems: slavery, feudalism and capitalism.

The Collectivist (Communist, communist, Socialist and American Liberal) believes that all resources belong to the Collective as represented by the State. It is ultimately the State that determines how much economic growth there is to be, in what area of human endeavor and how the fruits of labor are to be distributed. Collectivists publicly champion 'fairness' in ownership and earnings, though in private their leaders favor themselves and visit most of the hardships that collectivism brings on the shoulders of the common people. Only socialism fits the collectivist model of ownership and socialism can have various levels of government ownership and government control.

Obviously, a Christian can not be a Socialist be definition. For a Christian to become a Socialist, he/she must violate both Great Commandments, and the Commandments against stealing and coveting.