Is Donna still around………..

This is a good one……….
Christianity began as a protest movement, but it was a protest movement that was very conservative. We know from the Dead Sea Scrolls – essentially the library of the Temple of Jerusalem hidden to protect it from the Romans – that what Jesus wanted to do was just what he announced in the first sermon that he gave. It is reported in Luke, Chapter 4. He said “I’ve come to proclaim the year of the Lord,” meaning the Jubilee Year. He unrolled the scroll of the Prophet Isaiah that described the Jubilee Year.

Here is your tricky little Jew……..
He said that the rabbis who opposed to be cancelling debts – the Pharisees, a conservative group of rabbis led most notably by Hillel

Jesus explained in his sermon that this was against the Mosaic Law – the law of Leviticus, chapter 25. It was in fact against everything the Old Testament talks about. (My book has the relevant Dead Sea scrolls.) But rabbinical Judaism was being taken over by pro-creditor Pharisees. Luke quotes Jesus as describing them as being avid for money, and working for the creditor class.

At that time the great social fight not only in Judea but also in Greece and Rome was between debtors and creditors. There was a region-wide civil war. There were assassinations of Roman pro-debtor advocates such as the Gracchi brothers in 133 BC. A century of civil war followed, in which even Julius Caesar, who enacted a modest debt reform, was killed. Sparta’s King’s Agis and Cleomenes were killed for cancelling the debts. There were armed uprisings throughout Greece and Asia Minor over this.

This was a universal fight. But somehow, the economic message of Jesus has been taken out of context. It is as if what he was talking about was otherworldly. But he was talking about something very worldly – the debt issue. Jesus wanted to restore the debt cancellation as it was supposed to be according to Leviticus 25.

Jerry:
Many people would rather not talk about the book of Leviticus.
They would rather pose semantic questions.

Unfortunately………most have become asleep…….

THE USA, citizen is no longer free…….but, a slave to the MONEY CHANGERS, real simple.

Yes they are “slaves to the moneychanger’ OOTB. It is very interesting how that came about perfectly legally. I realized just what wa going on when the concept of auto leases and extended payment contract came into being. One of the greatest weaknesses of a human being is the desire for “instant gratification”.

Many will not read this article,…..because they think it is religious…..

Paul Craig Roberts, a PhD economist, calls Michael Hudson America’s best economist.

thanks….interesting comment by PCR

We can see by the scriptures, …. the money changing jews, Pharisees, loved to keep people in bondage..
This is where it gets interesting, for those who know scriptures,…..(St) Paul was a Pharisee

Jesus used Paul……for the GRACE MESSAGE…..

I don’t follow PCR’s work and that PhD of his does not tell me a thing about whether or not he’s a good economist (if he’s a good one, he’d probably agree).

R.e. economists, Matthew, of course you’re right. It’s largely a profession of well-earned ill repute.

My comment was in response to Jerry’s “Many will not read this article,…..because they think it is religious” — to say, it is indeed by an economist.

Once you have gained the knowledge of the Bible, acceptable no longer will ignorance be.

Of course, I agree with you JohnK

Good one…….I like that……..

I will definitely read this article OOTB.

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