Posted on 11/06/2017 5:34:46 AM PST by NorseViking
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
No. Extend love and charity, but Jesus also said that if you don’t work, you don’t eat.
Why link only?
If thou shalt not work, thou shalt not eat.
Doesn’t sound like communism to me.
I think that Acts clearly PERMITS Christians to live in quasi-communist communal arrangements, presumably voluntarily.
Couldn’t copy any text from there for some reason.
Any time the libs ask a question, stupidity follows.
The author doesn’t understand communists or the bible....
What to make of this...?
I guess the NYT is attempting to normalize communism by making it equal to being “Christian” or asking the ridiculous question: is it Christian?
Very confusing, lacking all historical perspective and even slightly demented.
But whatever, let the liberals move to the left. They’re so daft they’ll go all the way to down the dead end known as communism, see it for what it’s worth and become full-blown marxist apologists. It only benefits us.
I think you are right. Another goal is to degrade Christians.
It’s really stunning to me how any supposedly educated person could look at the history of Communism and conclude its anything but a failed and dangerous ideology. Ditto for Socialism. Yet these cheerleaders for Communism are not unintelligent people. Which leads me to believe they are motivated by evil and a lust for power.
That was Paul, not Jesus........
I have had that problem on my Kindle. Not sure why.
Mat 22:29 Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.
Christians lived communally early in the book of acts to help avoid persecution, having their property confiscated by the state for violating local customs. They figured it was better to sell it all and live out of a common pot for a while.
However, it wasn’t long before they ran out of money. Thanks to the work of the evanjelists Paul, Barnabas, Silas et al, there were other churches that could contribute of their largesse to help the Christians in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, NONE of this was by compulsion.
Not the living communally, nor the giving of money to help the poor and sick.
Paul the Apostle said in his second letter to the Corinthians, chapter 9 and verse 7, “As every man purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
Communism might work with a moral and religious people as well, but Communists hate religion and morality, so it wouldn't.
Paul wouldn’t say anything if not moved by the Holy Spirit to do so.
I believe it was Thomas Sowell who once said that socialists are people who never expect to pay a price for their failures ... which is why you find a lot of them in education and the media.
Communism, which is envy that demands theft from others, is not Christian.
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