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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
You twisted things to your own point of view, not to a biblical point of view.
So the way you frame things shows your deep extreme radical leftist bias.
Stop drinking the Kool-aid.  |
In the OT the economic structure of the nation was a form of agrarian socialism. You had the poor tithe to provide for the poor, you had gleaning rights for the poor placed on every land owner, you had laws against usury (the charging of interest), laws governing collateral, every Jubilee all debts were forgiven, and every 50 years mortgaged lands were returned to the family line of the original owners, etc. The land belonged to the LORD and was given to God's people in accordance to covenant, so the land and its resources belonged to the people of God. The authorities at large were responsible for using the resources of the land to better the entire people and guarantee that none were totally destitute. When the people neglected these provisions (through bribes) and turned away the poor at the gates of their fields, ignored the poor tithe, and charged usury, God sent prophets to sternly rebuke them and warn of judgment. We see many of these rebukes in the Lesser Prophets. Yes, ancient Israel would be classified as an ancient agrarian socialist state built upon distributist economics.
This is why rabbinical scholars and Zionists even drafted modern Israel as a socialist state.
So, I challenge the notion that my view isn't biblical and assert that perhaps it is you who has partaken in the anarcho-capitalist coolaid.
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