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Ananias & Sapphira: was it a crime or not?
There are several imponderables in the episode.
And to call that “Inspired Scripture” is perhaps the worst! What moral lesson is the church supposed to teach from this incident? Stewardship? FEAR?!... Acts 5:1-11. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...1&version=KJV; |
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08-31-2009, 01:48 AM
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Look at the heroes of the story :
Don Peter Corleone, the godfather, his "young men", Ananias and Sapphira, all belong to the Jerusalem group. Paul is not involved. Why should a gentile join this Peter ? Go with Paul... |
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08-31-2009, 01:58 AM
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Peter seems happy that the "holy spirit" struck the pair dead in front of him. He had been forgiven six weeks earlier of a gross sin of denying the revolutionary & militant christ he had been with for three years; denial he put our ugly enough with uninspired expletives in front of ladies [revealing that being next to god on earth for that long didn't help a thing to reform his bad language!]. Paul was not in the picture at that time [still in Tarsus learning a trade to hand make tents], but later he also becomes an aggressive bigot - Galatians 1:7. |
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08-31-2009, 06:22 AM
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INTEGRITY. |
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Do you mean integrity in GIVING what one proposes in his heart to give? Or do you mean integrity from Peter to confess his crime? |
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08-31-2009, 01:07 PM
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I should think it was a better explanation that A & S specifically set out to deceive men and NOT God.
Earliest example in Church history of leaders arrogating to themselves God's position? |
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08-31-2009, 01:45 PM
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He knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good, for goodness sake....
It's really no more profound than that. |
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Hi Julio,
Communism or death! Warmly, Philosopher Jay Quote:
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