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Equality
For if the willingness is there,
the gift is acceptable according to
what one has, not according to
what he does not have.
Our desire is not that others might be
relieved while you are hard pressed,
but that there might be equality.
At the present time your plenty will
supply what they need, so that in turn
their plenty will supply what you need.
Then there will be equality,
2 Corinthians 8:12-14
In the Bible equality is maintained out
of love, by men's self choice.
Some say communism is originated
from the Bible; that is not so.
Communism originated from men's
natural anger and has evolved to
few dictator's greed, deception and
murdering in order to keep their
power and debauchery life style
at the cost of all people.
Equality in the bible is from
God who created men after his
own image.
To maintain it in humanity
he sacrificed his life.
The 2 Corinthians is the Apostle Paul's second letter to the
Corinthian Churches. Letter is the most intimate and personal.
Two thousand years ago, the Corinth city in Greece reminds
us today's New York city. The Corinth seaboard city was
then a center of trade, merchandize, wealth and luxury.
Also there was the Venus temple which led people not only
to moral deterioration but also sexual disaster.
The original location of Humanism, which against Creator God
and focus on human, the Corinth city in Greece lay in
spiritually formless, empty and darkness.
Here by God's mercy small lights began to shine. They were the
Lord Jesus' house Churches. They belong to the low social class.
Envious and jealous devil attempted to destroy God's
House Churches by questioning Paul's integrity and Apostleship.
And it caused to delay and complicate the promised loving
collection as well for the poverty stricken Jerusalem church.
It was the process of the life giving Gospel to us, and it
continues so. How beautiful are the feet those who
bring good news !