As erudite as David Gernhard’s post is he already knows that in a perfect world communism would not even be a consideration.

Private property or private ownership is a by product of sanctification. Sanctification, essentially means set apart. So, whomever or whatever is set apart; is set apart for the specific purposes of whom and for whom they are sanctified.

However, private ownership is not the end all and be all of God’s purposes in creation. This is not to say that’s what Gernhard was implying in his post. The point is belabored as clarification for those, who like Becca, have been mis-educated in the foolishness of evolution.

Deuteronomy 8:18 says: “Remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.”

This verse puts forth the idea that wealth (private property) is a by-product of a work of God on the behalf of people whom he has set apart for Himself as part of a covenant between Him and them. A covenant is an agreement or promise.

The writer of Deuteronomy says here that the ability to have and to hold (private property) is confirmation from God to His people that He (God) will keep His Word.

It’s not by coincidence, that those nations or regions identified as being Christian have also been the wealthiest in history. On the other hand there are nations and regions of the world that are not Christian, and grinding generational poverty has been the norm; i.e. India, Africa, China, Haiti.

God does not have favorites. He does honor His Promises. Private property is merely a necessary by product confirming the promises.

However, in a perfect world, private property may be irrelevant. We know from the New Testament that members of the first century Church had “all things in common.”

“And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common (Acts 4:32)”

Lastly, Deuteronomy 15:3-5 (NIV) says that there should be no poor. Communism is a man made construct to distribute wealth. In a perfect world, there would be no need for wealth distribution.

“You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your brother owes you. However, there should be no poor among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today (Deut. 15:3-5).

In a perfect world, communism would be as out of place as a republican in a homeless shelter.

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So proof of God’s existence? Maybe that communism has never worked, just as God said. : )