/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

>>855013

Sir, communism, like the popery, is of the devil. Both ideologies have killed christians. Both communism and the popish institution have destroyed many lives. Go ask the population of USSR or Cuba or China.

Communism is not that everyone is equal, it is that the state is God and owns everything. Ownership taken by force from the people.

But I should not be surprised, of course a devilish institution would speak well of a devilish ideology. After all, they both have blood on their hands…

the problem you have with Franky, is that he's a Universalist

this means he presumes that whether you are a fully orthodox Roman Catholic having received the sacraments, a Muslim who denies the divinity of Christ, a Hindu who worships a pantheon, a Buddhist who seeks to release innate divinity, a wackjob Word Of Faith television preacher plundering the houses of widows, or a Wiccan… you're on a spiritual path of equal worth with every other, so technically you're a 'christian'

this extends to his expectation that all spiritual people can and must meet the moral standard of Christ Jesus, and like the early Church depicted in Acts, 'share a common purse'

putting aside his erroneous theology which dismisses the exclusivity of Christ as the only Way, we need to address the historical context where the early church were helping out their new family who shared an adoption into The Father – and this was a family going through an incredibly tumultuous and often horrifying world where for 300 years the government which ran the known world was attempting to stamp them out through State-Sponsored terror

the Pope though, against all evidence and even Scriptural attestation to there being those of Christ's sheep, and those who are of the world; thinks we could all just get along as long as we have faith… and so he simply demands that everyone be good

and what he thinks is 'good' is borne from the marriage of Marxian thought with Jesuit zeal, making for 'Liberation Theology' which is basically just communism for folk who still like lighting candles in church

… and the boys in the EO can tell you how great that kinda thinking worked out for sincere believers in Soviet Russia

Acts 4:

³² And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

³³ And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

³⁴ Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

³⁵ And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

>>855248

Were people forced to join or was membership voluntary?

>And the multitude of them that believed

Aha, it says here it was only them that believed that did this.

>which he possessed

So it looks like they still believed in possessions, but that they willingly waived their own possessions as donations. It also does not say that the group forcefully took away their possessions. So how is this communist?

>>855248

If they sell everything, what land do they work

Is that for going around traveling evangelizing