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To: Kevin Curry
But Marxism and atheism go together like tea and biscuits.

Didn't Jesus and his Apostles practice a form of communism, holding all property in common, divesting themselves of most of their worldly possessions? Didn't Jesus preach against the accumulation of wealth in this life? One could make the claim that Jesus preached communism -- indeed an entire communist movement in Latin America was based upon just this supposition.

309 posted on 05/21/2002 6:55:46 AM PDT by Junior
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To: Junior
Didn't Jesus and his Apostles practice a form of communism, holding all property in common,

No.

Mat 26:6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Mat 26:7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat [at meat].

Mat 26:8 But when his disciples saw [it], they had indignation, saying, To what purpose [is] this waste?

Mat 26:9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

Mat 26:10 When Jesus understood [it], he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

Mat 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

Mat 26:12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial.

Mat 26:13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, [there] shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.


312 posted on 05/21/2002 7:13:07 AM PDT by AndrewC
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