Was Jesus a Progressive Socialist?
By offering Baptism to the people, both Jesus and the Baptist were giving cleansing and redemption for nothing, thus cutting off the vast flow of money in the the Temple and also to the greedy citizens around Jerusalem who even overcharged Temple visitors for shelter in outhouses, sheds and so forth.
By redacting so many rules and laws Jesus was giving the people an opportunity to Progress out of the old corrupted and hypocritical regime.
By promoting the sharing of wealth Jesus did not accept the situation of a few very wealthy people in a land with so many poor.
Progressive Socialist?
But members may have verses which show that Jesus was neither one nor t'other of these?
Mark {10:21} Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor,
Matthew {9:13} But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew {12:7} But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew {23:25} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
By offering Baptism to the people, both Jesus and the Baptist were giving cleansing and redemption for nothing, thus cutting off the vast flow of money in the the Temple and also to the greedy citizens around Jerusalem who even overcharged Temple visitors for shelter in outhouses, sheds and so forth.
By redacting so many rules and laws Jesus was giving the people an opportunity to Progress out of the old corrupted and hypocritical regime.
By promoting the sharing of wealth Jesus did not accept the situation of a few very wealthy people in a land with so many poor.
Progressive Socialist?
But members may have verses which show that Jesus was neither one nor t'other of these?
Mark {10:21} Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor,
Matthew {9:13} But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew {12:7} But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew {23:25} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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