VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time ]


[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 05:32:26 02/27/03 Thu
Author: walt
Subject: Re: "Follow me"
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Re: "Follow me"" on 10:41:54 02/20/03 Thu

>Walt, you wrote, in part: >>> What did Christ mean
>when he was here on earth and said "follow me?" <<<
>..... For a clue read Acts 2:44-47 and Acts 4:32-37.
>The Kingdom of God was a separate community whose (men
>only) members were pledged to obey God always, not to
>sin again, to be poor (they didn't need any money, and
>they were called "the Poor" by outsiders), and chaste.
>See also the many descriptions by Jesus related to the
>Kingdom of God.
>..... As I see it, only those who ignore the many
>changes that were made after the crucifixion of Jesus
>and who live a communal life in a similar community
>are entitled to call themselves "Christians".

There is no mention of any "believers" living outside of the Jerusalem community who practiced the communal living. Indeed Paul took up a collection from the predominantly gentile assemblies for the poor saints at jerusalem(romans 15:26, galatians 2:10, I corinthians 16:1-3).
The saints at jerusalem were also keeping the law.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]


Replies:


Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]


Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.