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Originally Posted by Reader
All believers everywhere during that time did not have "all things in common" so to teach this was a standard for all & today we need to do likewise is incorrect. It was among those in Jerusalem. This would have ended with the persecution in Jerusalem which scattered the believers.
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Really? Perhaps at a certain point baptism in Jesus name ceased? After all we know a great majority never practiced it after a while. Same with baptism in the Spirit with tongues. It gets hard to find historically.
Does that mean its no longer in Gods design, because men dont do it?
I believe it was universally practiced by the early Church.
Here is the example.
13For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack. 2 Cor. 8:13-15
Acts 4:32 tells us they said nothing they had was their own. That is how it works.
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