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To: HiTech RedNeck
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.

323 posted on 09/01/2005 8:34:40 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel
IF they'd said, "Howdy Peter, we sold our house, and here's half the money," they'd have been just fine.

At the very most logical extreme you do not have any proof of that. I see Peter pointing out their participation in the transaction, not their "oh, I think I can choose any old thing and God is still pleased" right.

327 posted on 09/01/2005 8:37:26 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Shalom Israel
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?

It's impossible for God to covet when He owns it all already.

329 posted on 09/01/2005 8:39:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Shalom Israel

Hate to tell you this, but arguing with him, well, let me use another Biblical reference, is Onanism.


330 posted on 09/01/2005 8:39:30 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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