Anonymous
10/10/2025, 4:50:34 PM
No.82760919
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>>82760896
>>82760905
There are many other instances of private ownership in the Bible not being condemned, among the most damning is of course the continued maintenance of the system of capital within the empire. Besides the clergy, apostles, those sorts, who held Church funds in common, the laymen were under the expectation of continuing to labor under the same system of exploitation, giving "a sum of money" to the church. This is by no means communist, but a case could be made that it reflects a bourgeois socialist reform. This would also mean labelling certain governments that you likely do not want to leftist, like the USA and Nazi Germany, as both are full of charitable reforms made through extraction of a certain percentage of income according to ability, and the use of a large percentage of those funds to support the indigent population according to their needs.
Now we are come to this quote from Luke 18, of the rich man:
>And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
>And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
>Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Jesus tells him all that is necessary here. The rich man, just as the Pharisee in verse 11, "exalteth himself," considering himself a Christian yet refuses when confronted with Christ commanding him to abandon his wealth. The quotation is not to say that it is a commandment that one should be poor, but an example of a hypocrite who would not listen even if God stood before him.
>>82760896
>>82760905
There are many other instances of private ownership in the Bible not being condemned, among the most damning is of course the continued maintenance of the system of capital within the empire. Besides the clergy, apostles, those sorts, who held Church funds in common, the laymen were under the expectation of continuing to labor under the same system of exploitation, giving "a sum of money" to the church. This is by no means communist, but a case could be made that it reflects a bourgeois socialist reform. This would also mean labelling certain governments that you likely do not want to leftist, like the USA and Nazi Germany, as both are full of charitable reforms made through extraction of a certain percentage of income according to ability, and the use of a large percentage of those funds to support the indigent population according to their needs.
Now we are come to this quote from Luke 18, of the rich man:
>And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
>And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
>Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Jesus tells him all that is necessary here. The rich man, just as the Pharisee in verse 11, "exalteth himself," considering himself a Christian yet refuses when confronted with Christ commanding him to abandon his wealth. The quotation is not to say that it is a commandment that one should be poor, but an example of a hypocrite who would not listen even if God stood before him.