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Originally Posted by redeemedcynic84
that's not true...
the early church wasn't that poor, they were just underground, there is a difference...
There is direct evidence that as early as Paul's ministry people who were mayors and very wealthy land-owners were converts...
Look at Philemon... Ananias & Saphiris... you can't sell property if you don't own property and you don't own property if you aren't wealthy in the ancient world...
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You are forgetting the land was given to them.