So what? JESUS was there! All the more proving that contrary to what you're saying, there's no such requirement/stipulation to sell everything and put everything in a common fund for re-distribution! Where do you think Christianity came from?
Yeah ... There was no organization ... by that logic we can say homosexuality wasn't a sin since Jesus didn't talk about it, or we shouldn't have churches since Jesus didn't start them, it's total nonsense, there was no church at that point.
1. You're talking about ONE verse, and ignoring the rest, where it says they held all things in common, no one owned anthing they possessed, they all held everything in common.
2. You're making a false dictomy between forced and voluntary .... deciding to have a public park vrs a private park isn't a choice between force and voluntary .... How is the question of public heathcare vrs private heathcare a question of "forced vrs voluntary," it isn't, this is simply a strawman,
its a question of social wellbeing over private profit, it's a question of people over property ... and guess what the bible is for social well being and people over profit and property EVERY SINGLE TIME.
No one is talking about forced philanrhopy here ... and AGAIN CHAIRTY IS NOT PHILANTHROPY ... Look up the word agape ...
But you're promoting falsehoods and corrupting the Scriptures when you post messages like this:
Where am I wrong there? I can point to the times where the rich oppress the poor and so on, point me to the verse where it says the opposite?
It's not the Bible that I mock....but the hypocrisy of those who give lectures and castigate others. Those who do the talk but don't do the walk.
You go on about the greed of capitalism and corporations - yet you perhaps partake of the goods they sell you, and thus you support them in their greed. You paint everyone with the same brush - from the wealthy to small business-owners and large corporations.
If all you like-minded individuals want to make a big impact with your statement - then, don't buy!
If you think having a commune is the best way - I don't think there's any law in our part of the world stopping you. There's been many communes formed in the name of "Christianity" - but they all ended up being nothing more but cults, and led by nothing more than self-proclaimed dictators. Remember Jim Jones?
1. I do walk the walk.
2. Everyone partakes of the goods, because we live in a system dominated by them, even Paul ate meat from the temples, because that's where a lot of it came from, that doesn't mean he supports the temple system.
3. Not buying, doen'st change anything, ever.
4. I never argued to make a commune, I argued to approach socio-economics the way the apostles would have, Jesus would have, and the prophets and OT people DID ....
Also very cute with you're Jim Jones thing, I can bring up right wing lunatic christians all day as well, but I don't because it's a childish argument.
As for your doing good - GOOD FOR YOU! At least you're doing something in your own way, you are a political activist I assume - and your interest and/or studies/experience/talent is in politics, or with this kind of stuff. But don't knock down Christians - and make them to be lesser Christians - for not doing the same that you do.
I'm not knocking christians that are not political activists, another strawman.
I'm knocking people that leave all the christian principles at the door when they deal with politics and economics .... (other than dislike of homosexuals and so on), If you're not going to deal with politics, thats fine, if you are, and you're a christian, then christian principles would apply.
Romans 12
Serve God with Spiritual Gifts
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
yeah .... I never said otherwise ... Point out where I said EVERY christian nees to be a social justice activist?
