Jesus was not a capitalist. He didn’t promote competition or getting rich at the expense of others. Any creation of wealth should be for the common good — not merely for individual, familial, or commercial gain. When describing the common life of the first Christians, the book of Acts puts it this way: “Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common [koina]” (Acts 4:32). Paul expressed this same principle of mutuality: “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law
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