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To: MrB
My post was mainly oriented at those lurkers who were not very familiar with the Bible. Rather than refer them to the 613 points in Torah, some of which do not directly apply in the culture wars we face at the moment, I settled on using the Ten Commands as the succinct summary of the values that God directed Moses to record in the Pentateuch.

The issue with respect to Victoria Jackson pertains to a culture that has rejected even the most basic points of God's Law. Even as the left yearns for “social justice”, and writes volumes on it, and conducts countless street protests on the topic, it would find peace and prosperity if it only observed the Ten Commands.

But, and in reference to your point, the Commands against coveting and theft are not the whole expression of God's thoughts on property. If anyone is yearning for “social justice”, I would ask them to read Leviticus 19 where God also requires Israel to appoint righteous judges who will studiously treat all parties the same: to not favor the rich or discriminate against the poor in a dispute.

However, Lev 19 requires the farmer to reserve a portion of his field to allow the poor to glean food. I suspect that an advocate of “social justice” would dismiss this because the portion is fixed; the farmer does not have to worry that next year the “corner” will be enlarged because of “urgent and unfunded needs”. The corner is always just the corner.

It appears to me that advocates of “social justice” are looking for excuses to play Robin Hood- to take from anyone who has and give to favored people who claim to have not. All manner of lies are told to the public to justify the coveting that leads to this theft.

Because God, in the full Law, prohibits lies, coveting, and theft, all this socialization is in violation of 1 John 3:4.

37 posted on 09/05/2008 1:55:02 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

The advocates of “social justice” are just practicing, as Sowell puts it, the “Politics of Self-Congratulation”. They’re doing it for their own self aggrandizement, and for their own power to determine who gets what.

I don’t know how anyone can claim to be a Christian and push class warfare and envy. Clearly a violation of, and an encouragement of others to violate, “thou shall not covet”. And it SPECIFICALLY SAYS “your neighbor’s house”!

And just last week the dhimmirats main talking point was about how many houses McCain owns.


39 posted on 09/05/2008 2:02:37 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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