It also gets an honorable mention in the book of Acts.
This is true. But as I’m reading the most recent edition (that I could afford) on the commentary of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there were some sects that were decidedly anti-God.
So. Happy Friday Eve, in spite of the communists!
Crikey. No wonder I’m tired. I’ve done all the work for today that I’m going to do, I think, because I jus’ plumb wore mah silly se’f owt! ;o]
“It also gets an honorable mention in the book of Acts.”
Yes, in a vague-ish waving off sort of way like, “If you’re going to bother, do it this way.”
So we see the giving and sharing was out of voluntary generosity absent any punishment-connected dictae as to who gave what and how much. Note the dialog surrounding the deception of Ananias and Saphira. There’s no indication there’d have been a problem them holding back some of the proceeds; it was strictly their deception that got them the Zot.
This discussion is a well-traveled route, but the lack of a top-down “thou shalt” with associated punishments and a cadre of enforcers removes it from the realm of our miserable human governmental “-isms.”