Tag: Acts 4
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Living Simply in Abundance (10)
What does the non-gospel portion of the New Testament have to say about wealth and abundance? In most ways, it is consistent with what we have seen in the rest of Scripture. But we need to go no further than Chapter 2 in Acts before we come across one of the more controversial passages concerning…
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Economic Fallacies: “Biblical Redistribution”
The Biblical Redistribution fallacy identifies wealth equalization as the primary economic concern of the Bible; the Jubilee Code of Leviticus 25 is the most exemplary passage. Based on this perspective, public policies ranging from tax rates to debt cancellation for developing nations are advocated. These policies may be worthy and appropriate, but that is distinct…