Jesus is not a liberal

He isn’t a conservative, either.
The fact is that Jesus Christ is so far above worldly politics that to assign a political philosophy to him is like saying God favors Toyotas over Hondas. It is absurd.
And yet, I have lost count the number of times a left-wing progressive has tried to pick an argument with me—a Christian conservative—by stating that Jesus was a liberal.
No, he was not. He is not. And he isn’t going to be, either.
Leftist progressives have tried to argue that because Jesus treated people equally regardless of their gender or skin color; because he advocated giving to the poor and selling one’s worldly possessions; and because he was the epitome of human compassion that somehow makes him more like a liberal.
No, that makes him God.
To say that Jesus is a liberal is to make him of the world, a palpable figure whose values are in harmony with ours.
But to do that is a mistake, not to mention completely inappropriate.
Jesus Christ is not concerned with a person’s politics. He is concerned about a person’s heart and spirit.
During his time here on earth, Jesus gave to the needy, denied himself material possessions, took pity on the sick and sinful, and treated everyone with equal love and compassion because he is the Savior, the Messiah, the Christ and God in the flesh; not for political reasons.
He modeled the kind of behavior that God expects of all of us: liberal, conservative, progressive, right and left-wing.
The principles that Jesus lived by as a man are not exclusive to any particular political philosophy. Rather, they are the principles and values of holiness and righteousness.
A progressive isn’t more compassionate than a conservative. Neither is a progressive more fair, just or equal than a conservative, nor left more charitable than right.
To suggest as some progressives do that their philosophy more closely reflects the teachings of Jesus Christ is pure arrogance.
I’m no expert on God’s Word, but I’ve never read in the Bible where Jesus advocates compassion and charity at the point of a sword; i.e., compulsory giving via taxation and government policy. From what I’ve read, Jesus never advocated government-run charity, welfare, health care or any another publicly funded service.
Rather, he left it up to man to govern himself in the world. “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and render unto God what is God’s.” (Matthew 22:20-22)
To support government run compassion as progressives do does not make them more compassionate than conservatives, who believe that compassion can neither be defined, nor determined nor measured by how much government spends. It is measured by the charity within men’s hearts.
As I recall, state sponsored and funded compassion has been tried throughout human history. And throughout history, compassion has been the one lacking element in these endeavors.
The Roman Republic and later Empire took from the individual the responsibility of caring for the needy. Roman citizens paid taxes to provide for those who could not help themselves. As such, private charity within the republic and later empire was rare if non-existent. In fact, it was generally discouraged.
Citizens saw no point in additional giving when their taxes supposedly took care of the problem. They saw no value in showing more compassion or giving more charity when they already paid taxes for these purposes.
Likewise, fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ classic novel “A Christmas Carol” summed up what government compassion can do to a person who becomes complacent in his charity: “Are there no prisons? …And the union workhouses…? ... I help to support the establishments I have named; those who are badly off must go there.”
Scrooge was so detached from suffering through paying his taxes that he had forgotten what real compassion of the heart was.
It is this desensitization that is risked when the people let the government be their compassion and their charity.
This is not the compassion that Jesus Christ advocated.
But oddly enough, it is the kind of compassion that progressives advocate for; the same progressives that say Jesus was a liberal.