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Re: What Is Biblical Prosperity ?
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Originally Posted by jaamez
I don't even know where to start looking for a "biblical" definition of "prosperity." I believe the concept was foreign to the first century church - they had everything common and distributed to whomever had a need. We horde unto ourselves.
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Yeah, but that "all things in common" business didn't work out for them, and it didn't work out for Captain John Smith and the colonists.
In fact, it hasn't worked anywere that it has been tried.
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