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Question Were the early Christians communists? A look at Acts 2:44-46 - 12-04-2019, 01:25 AM

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Acts 2:44-46 describes property sharing among the early Christian communities. Some people have concluded that they were communists, or running some sort of communes.

Of course, the early Christians did all sorts of weird things, just look at all the rebuking Paul does in his letters. For example, the Christian community in Corinth was infested by literal motherf*ckers, until Paul rebuked them: 1 Corinthians 5:1

Anyway, if these property sharing experiments were real, they seem to have quietly fizzled out, because nobody spoke of them again. As if they were embarrassed. That's the pattern most communes follow.
What was going on before the fizzle? Well, sharing tends to cause trouble after a while, or sooner during normal times. But during times of emergency and high excitement people can often set aside their normal selfishness and work together. And those early days of foundings and persecution would have been a very exciting time. In fact, people thought they were living in the final days!

This mistake happens a lot in history, with people thinking the endtimes would come in their lifetimes, rather than ours, which the Bible is clear about: Mt.16:28, Mt.23:36, Mt.24:34, Mt.26:64, Mk.9:1, Mk.13:30, Lk.9:27, Lk.21:32, Phil.4:5, Heb.1:2, Rev.22:20.

As we speculate on how they did things, the communistic features of the early communities should not be exaggerated.

The most detailed blueprint for their economic system is in Acts 4:34-36. It's a straightforward charity. People donate money to the Apostles, who decide what to do with it. So it's not "From each according to ability, to each according to need". It's "from each according to generosity, to each according to what the Apostle thinks is a good idea." With the Apostles there to bail you out, it would have been easier to follow advice like Matthew 6:34, and Matthew 6.25. That's also not "From each according to ability".


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The feasting table looks almost empty: maybe they were communists after all?


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