“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
So much for confiscation and redistribution of “the other guy’s stuff” being in ANY way biblical.
Those who stir up such feelings of greed and envy and class war among the “have nots” are sinners.
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Here is a list of the Bible verses they have gotten right:
Usually they seem to rely a lot on “judge not lest ye be judged.” I’ve seen the others referenced in the article, but that one has to comprise 80-90% of the leftist quotes to scripture.
Notably they take that quote out of context all the time too.
I do not believe any listing of scriptures murdered by the left would not be complete without including, “Thou shalt not kill”. The best source I have found for discussing this scripture is C.S. Lewis, who’s life journey besides his intellect eminently qualifies him discuss the topic. He abandoned a scholarship to Oxford in 1916 to serve in the British army as an officer with the Somerset Light Infantry. He was wounded at the Battle of Arras, mustered out, and suffered depression during his convalescence. The quote comes from Mere Christianity, which was fleshed out from radio broadcasts he made during WW II.
“Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment - even to death. If one has committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is therefore in my opinion, perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian soldier to kill an enemy, I always thought so, ever since I became a Christian, and long before the war, and still think so now that we are a peace. It is no good quoting, “Thou shalt not kill.” There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and the word to murder. And when Christ quotes that commandment He uses the murder one in all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And I am told there is the same distinction in Hebrew. All killing is not murder any more that all sexual intercourse is adultery. When soldiers came to St. John the Baptist asking what to do, he never remotely suggested that they ought to leave the army: nor did Christ when he met a Roman sergeant-major - what they called a centurion. The idea of the knight - the Christian in arms for defense of a good cause - is one of the great Christian ideas.”
The distinction in Hebrew is ratsach in the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”, which corresponds to our understanding for most cases of first degree murder. In military and other settings the words muwth, harag, shamad, charam and shachath are used, with King James translations of kill, slay or destroy. Sorry about missing all the accent points, but Word has its limitations.