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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
I bring this up because a major evangelical blog today had an interesting discussion on its forum from Christians who believed the mandate to care for the poor is exclusive to the faith community and not unbelievers.
They do well picking up the primary mandate, but as a mature church with a realized eschatology, I think there's plenty in the words of Jesus to justify a mandate that extends beyond discriminating acts of generosity to only believers.
Curious what others on here think.
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Well, if your eschatology is truly realized then I'd think that pretty much everything else will have taken care of itself including poverty. Problem solved.