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Originally Posted by Jay
Further, God commanded that the Israelites do this, because He was their King. You do not find him authorizing the Davidic dynasty to confiscate food, land, or property from the rich to give to the poor. It remained a command for the people to obey willingly without oppressive policies from the rulers.
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Actually you're wrong. God sent prophets to rebuke the entire nation for neglecting these precepts all the way up to the time of Amos and Malachi. Duh. Amos clearly draws out that leaders and land owners were in collusion to deny the poor their rights... just as God repeatedly rebuked the nation for usury. Study up.
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Further, it this nation, the people are the rulers, not our elected officials in our state and federal capitals. We often lose sight of this fact, but that was what our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Articles of Confederation were based on.
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I know. I'm simply saying that when GOD crafted a nation... HE chose a distributist model.
If we are to have a righteous Christian society... we do well to look at how God defined national righteousness and social justice.
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