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To: vladimir998
Then I guess you PRACTICE this that was TAUGHT?

44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. *

257 posted on 06/26/2009 5:26:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

You wrote:

“Then I guess you PRACTICE this that was TAUGHT?
44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.”

No, because that is not mandatory. St. Paul, for example, kept the money he earned as a tent maker to support himself. I am sure he was still generous with what he had, but he clearly was not living communally with his income. As Acts 5:4 makes plain, we are free to own private property and use it for own support. What we cannot do is be greedy or, if we decide to give up our property, deceitfully hold some of it back. In Acts 11:29 we see that the early Christians still - and this is during the reign of Claudius so it was in the forties or fifties of the first century - were in control of their own property.

Thus, Acts 2:44 is completely voluntary and there is no blame on a man who chooses not to follow suit. I choose not to and the Church - and scripture - would find no fault with me on that score.

It’s always amazing how poorly Protestants understand the Bible while at the same time pushing, ironically, sola scriptura.


258 posted on 06/26/2009 5:47:18 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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