Somehow, I KNEW you supported Leftist-Idealism which of course includes Communist theory.
no i go with the evidence, bible says the 12 kept things in common, DSS says the Essenes (John B) did the same. thats communism.
BRETHREN IN CHRIST JESUS:
Ex-FBI agent Cleon Skousen's 1958 book The Naked Communist ought to be mandatory reading in every Christian household, especially in today's time, because World Communism certainly is not dead.
US government is owned by wealthy elite, sharing one iota of wealth to help someone starving is their worst nightmare, so yeah it makes sense a government agent agree with their agenda
What those like John the Baptist and Christ's Apostles practiced certainly was NOT Communism. A commune of people living together and sharing doth not Communism make.
keeping goods in common is communism. if you dont like that bible passage just say you dont agree with it or think its an error
A real Historical Example of what Communist-Socialism is:
Communism does not believe in 'property rights'.
what does one have to do with the other? communism is about making sure everyone has a bed, food and roof over their head. i dont think you get what things were like in eastern europe back in the old days of monarchy, people were starving, sleeping in ditches, mass poverty, incarcerations while the ruling elite held 90% of the wealth, sound familiar?
God does. Apostle Paul even taught we each are to do our own work, and those who will not work should not eat (2 Thess.3:10; Gal.6:4).
off topic but i agree
At the Jamestown settlement in early America, at first everything was held in common. The effect of that was that some worked harder while others didn't, but all received the same. That first winter many starved for lack of food. Then the policy was changed to the Biblical Principle, that if you didn't work you didn't eat. And what extra you produced you could trade or sell (i.e., property rights).
bad example, new world, shortage of labor and the state was giving away land to the people which is an act of socialism.
That year there was an ABUNDANCE, and no one starved. I'm not making that up. That was real history at the early Jamestown settlement.
i think native americans and the slaves would disagree
Communism is still different than a commune though, because it does NOT recognize individual property rights. Nor does Communism recognize ANY natural God-given rights. Instead, Communism claims only the state... can give an individual rights. That is how Communist Russia's leaders like Stalin, Khrushchev, etc., murdered millions of their own peoples in Ukraine when they starved them by their state-run farm programs, which no longer produced enough food for the people.
Stalin was a puppet that fought against communism, he went after all communist and socialist leaders and had them killed, he undid everything they fought for.
they were against all forms of nobility that oppressed the common people, the church was part of that system, people were free to worship.
the US government forbids handing out bibles in school but under communist russia back in the old days you were free to hand out bibles in their schools all you wanted.
Thus those who TRY to compare Communism with communal sharing per God's Word are just full of Leftist-Socialist hot air. Get the book! Progressive is the NEW WORD today for Communism.
nothing to compare, keeping things in common is communism.
how we doing on the witch examples? did you give up on that?