Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Jordon (jordonr@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 15:26:11 JST Jordon

   • royal

   @royal This seems to imply or rely on the thought that there isn't a second coming of Jesus Christ.

   • Embed this notice
     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 15:26:10 JST fu

     in reply to
     only that it's not happening in the next 8,000 years.
   • Embed this notice
     Jordon (jordonr@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 02:11:19 JST Jordon

     in reply to

     • fu
     • royal
     • Charismatic Batman

     @CharismaticBatman @fu @royal I agree there, no man knows the day or the hour. I guess it comes off more humanistic to me... not so much my first comment. Jesus didn't come for social-economic reform, He came to save the lost from God's wrath, for His glory. This earth will burn away and there will be a new heaven's and new earth. But until then we should expect His return and be good stewards of this earth.

   • Embed this notice
     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 02:11:19 JST fu

     in reply to

     @jordonr
     

     But until then we should expect His return and be good stewards of this earth.

     
     I would hope you agree that part of that stewardship is social-economic reform. Jesus told the rich man that to follow him he must sell what he has and give to the poor. The early Christians lived in community and shared everything leaving nothing to themselves.

   • Embed this notice
     Charismatic Batman (charismaticbatman@theres.life)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 02:11:21 JST Charismatic Batman

     in reply to

     • fu
     • royal

     @fu @jordonr @royal

     I mean, didn't most of the Apostles expect His return in their lifetimes?

     I don't like the thought of His return being that far off, but it's far more palatable to me than the Hal Lindsey "Prophecy Watch" insanity that just keeps going and going and going.......

   • Embed this notice
     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 03:39:17 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     in reply to

     • fu
     @fu And--important to note--this was a voluntary choice. There was no doctrine or practice that required it.
     
     https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%205:1-11&version=NIV
     
     It seems to have been brief and exceptional even in the "early Church" context. Though I think the early Christians remained more willing to share with one another than their surrounding society, there doesn't seem to be much support for belief that they held a widespread and long lasting socialism.