“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth” ([Matthew vi, 19]).
“Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on” ([25]).
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow” ([34]).
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What were the early Christians?
Acts: They were Communists. “They had all things common.... For as many as were possessors of land or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need” ([iv, 32–35]).
Most Christians condemn Communism; but was the Communism of nineteen hundred years ago better than the Communism of today? To condemn Communism is to condemn primitive Christianity. Yet, Christians profess to abhor the Communistic ideas of modern teachers, while they worship as a God the founder of this Communistic sect of Palestine.