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To: NorseViking

I think that Acts clearly PERMITS Christians to live in quasi-communist communal arrangements, presumably voluntarily.


5 posted on 11/06/2017 5:39:58 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: Jim Noble

Some monasteries traditionally worked on a “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” basis. It worked to a degree, in as much as they had taken vows of poverty...but even in such cases, I believe there was some barter commerce or outside sales of goods and services to surrounding communities. Also, such systems worked because they were God-centered, which is the antithesis of Marxist communism.


21 posted on 11/06/2017 5:54:38 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Jim Noble
God's humility in allowing us Free Will allows much - with the apostles caveat that if a man will not work, he should not eat...

I knew some folks who decided to live in communes in the '60s - they discovered that too few did all the work and the rest leeched off them...came away a bit disillusioned about their precious Communism...

55 posted on 11/06/2017 7:14:54 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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