no.
capitalist.
Jesus live under the corrupt rule of Rome. He certainly didn’t expect Rome to take care of the poor.
More: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122608/posts
Whenever some socialist tells me that I need to advocate a socialist takeover of the government because Jesus was a communist I tell them that ... if they really wish to do that ... takeover the government with socialism because Jesus was a socialist ... then EVERY PERSON IN POWER HAS TO BE A CHRISTIAN AND HAS TO BE DEVOUTLY SO AND TESTED FOR IT EVERY MONTH.
That shuts them up pretty quickly.
No Jesus was not a socialist.
These trite associations are offensive to the spirit.
nope. probably the oldest lie in church age.
NO and we “are not” our brothers keeper.
"Thou shalt not steal" is an affirmation of property rights, which socialism denies, iirc.
NO!
Neither shall you covet your neighbour’s wife.
Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.
Jesus Christ taught people to turn to God as their sufficiency, not some government.
I guess the left needs some lessons in Proverbs . . . the ant, the Virtuous Woman . . .
Part of socialism/marxism is to disseminate inflammatory rhetoric specifically designed to agitate and demoralize. Making the claim that Christian philosophy somehow parallels Marx & Engels, or Mao’s little red book is ludicrous, yet people will get all bent out of shape and try to counter it with rational argument. It’s a game of whack-a-mole with the left. It’s supposed to get you all hot and tilting at windmills.
Jesus was a Torah believing Jew, and Torah endorses private property rights. Jesus was not a socialist.
Ask your socialist friends, "when Jesus returns and rules from His throne in the Holy of Holies, in the Temple, on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, in Israel, will he establish a socialistic democracy? Or will He establish His kingdom?" Since none of them believe He will return, they won't be able to answer.
The “socialism” he points out involves voluntary, willful selling of property to willing buyers, and charitable giving of the proceeds to the poor and to the church...that free flow of goods is capitalism, not socialism - the government did not force them to do it and then confiscate the cash through taxation. The living in a community was also voluntary and not done by the point of a sword from a government official or through confiscation through taxation.
The main argument that Jesus was a communist is that both during the ministry of Jesus, and in the early life od the Church after the Resurrection, the diciples lived communally and shared all their assets. However, there is no evidence that early Christianity preached that this should be forced on people. This lifestyle would eventually be centered in the monastic life, where even today monks and nuns share all their assets and live a communal life. It has worked in Catholicism for about 1500 years, but it only works in monasteries, not in the whole population. It works when there is a shared degree of faith, and that God is central to their lives. Replacing that with a materialist atheist communism enforced among the whole population doesn’t work.
Although Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesar’s”, He never said that folks shouldn’t work for a living.
Joseph worked as a carpenter. Jesus didn’t condemn him for working for a living. To the contrary, if anything Jesus benefited from hard labor and a meager living on what his earthly father could provide for him and Mary.
Jesus did say it would be harder for a rich man to enter heaven, than it would be for him to enter through the eye of a needle. Even that could be interpreted several ways, because there was an entry way into Jerusalem (or some city in the area) know as the needle.
I have always thought that he was trying to say that the temptations for people of means, was very strong.
When it came to the poor, and the tradition of allowing the poor to reap the chaff, or leftovers in the field, Jesus never said that the poor should get everything.
The left loves to screw with religious concepts. They don’t respect religion, and it’s fair game to them. They don’t worry about judgment day nearly as much as they should.
Hardly any of us do, but I try to be respectful about religious matters. They don’t. They would use Jesus to jaundice people about good values. Shame on them.
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s; render unto God that which is God’s.
Not so much when one bounds what Jesus said with Torah.