Imagine - biblical?

[sarxweh]

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today...


Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace...


You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one


Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world...


You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one"

 

[Interplanner]

It's just a Christless imagination. No doubt many countries have mucked things up but if that is because they don't know the whole world belongs to Christ and will one day be awarded to him, they've missed a big one.

No, the answer is not the communist dissolution of property, because the very nature of the Biblical creation is property. It is all God's and he has property and ours is on a stewarship basis from him. In fact, there is really only one law: that no one steal anything.

For some good reading on this, see Rabbi (and talk show host) Dennis Prager on the commands, and U. Middelmann's PRO-EXISTENCE especially the chapter on 'property in the universe of God's creation.' Coincidentally, P-E was written right about the same time as Lennon's hit.

 

[sarxweh]

In fact, there is really only one law: that no one steal anything.

I will check that reading out.

I've heard that the ten are kept in the 1st (Luther), but that they are all kept in the 8th is new to me... Could you elaborate ?

Very interesting

 

[Interplanner]

dennisprager.com is the site of the rabbi/talk host and his commentary on torah is regularly shown as a link there. There is an archive and a store.

I'm only going on recent remarks on the broadcast, when he was explaining some of the fundamental differences between the intellectual Left and the founding beliefs of America, which are almost totally at odds. He treats the Left as a religion; he might as well. In the 1970s we used to preach against humanism as a religion; pretty much the same thing.

Yes, he does a good job showing that God is distinct from 'nature' and created 'property' which is his. To take any of it from him is theft. Leftism has socialized theology of course, which is what pantheism is (everything is god). Middlemann's book may be hard to find. Here:

Amazon.com: middelmann pro-existence: Books