>>127227348yea the Church in Jerusalem lived as communists technically speaking, did you think this was some gotcha moment?
It's also the one Church that always had money problems, while Paul traveled the world he always urged people to send money to the poor there.
But if you pay attention that's not a survival strategy, nor a political order just a reaction to how radical the Gospel was and how those people lived it, expecting the end of the world to come imminently. It obviously didn't come so that model of Church disappeared as life started to get the attention of people again.
Paul's Churches were more like modern Churches even if Paul definitely believed in the imminence of end times as well.
For the slim chance it was indeed a survival strategy - consider that they were by the Jews (they killed far more Christians in a short time than Nero did), that's also a big possibility, lacked resources, were hated and so on.
Also Paul and Jesus and James stress that you're judged according to your works as well, so the chances of Silco entering Heaven are slim.
