[PEN-L:33241] RE: Christian Economics, 2

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:33235] Christian Economics, 2

the Mormons also started as with a very communistic/egalitarian bent. In fact, it seems that a major reason why Mormon representatives in the US Senate and House oppose welfare-state programs is that the Mormon church already provides many such benefits to its members. Similarly, the early Christian communities excluded non-Christians, didn't they?

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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> Acts 4:32 to 4:35 --
>
> "The whole body of believers was united in heart and soul.
> Not a man of them claimed any of his possessions as his own,
> but everything was held in common, while the apostles fore
> witness with great power to the resurrection of the Lord
> Jesus. They were all held in high esteem; for they had never
> a needy person among them, because all who had property in
> land or houses sold it, brought the proceeds of the sale, and
> laid the money at the feet of the apostles; it was then
> distributed to any who stood in need."
>
> The leader of the pack mentioned above was none other than
> the apostle Peter, the "rock" on which the new Christian
> church was to be built. This communial economic system (which
> depended, of course, on the external economic systems of the
> Holy Land, Roman slavery, petty production, etc) was
> therefore not created by some outsider to the Christian discourse.
>
>
> Eric
> .
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