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You miss the context of the call by the Holy Spirit, the ultimate Government. God (gasp) WANTS Christians to have communal values. A & S were claiming that they had fulfilled the call that was upon them, when in fact they hadn't. The responsibility for what they had done with their property had been theirs; they could not pin the responsibility on anybody else. They didn't do with the property what God had wanted and yet (which was worse than the actual shortfall) claimed that they had. Go to a more literal translation for the facts.

You miss the context of the call by the Holy Spirit, the ultimate Government. God (gasp) WANTS Christians to have communal values.

You're trying to say that God is confused, then? He's the one, IIRC, that said, "Thou shalt not steal" and even "thou shalt not covet". You mean he was confused? When Paul said that covetousness was idolatry, he was mistaken?

I don't think so. Where you go wrong is that the Bible commands me to look out for my fellow man--but nowhere does it authorize my fellow man to barge into my house and take what he (thinks he) needs.

They didn't do with the property what God had wanted and yet (which was worse than the actual shortfall) claimed that they had.

Reread it. The problem was that they lied. Peter is specifically telling them that (1) they were not required to sell their house, and (2) having sold it, they were not required to turn over every penny. What offended God was their decision to lie about their decision. IF they'd said, "Howdy Peter, we sold our house, and here's half the money," they'd have been just fine.