Fraud in the church

Our scriptures today focus on fraud, deceit and lying in the early church.  It’s difficult to imagine members of the early church having these characteristics but we humans haven’t changed all that much over the centuries and wherever there is the exchange of money, there is the very real likelihood that people will behave badly.

The fact that, in our scriptures today, this bad behavior resulted in punishment is not surprising.  It is instructional.  The fact that the punishment was immediate death is disturbing, and off putting.  In my experience, scriptures like we have today can be reasons why many people choose to not be Christians.

I am disturbed by these scriptures as well but many people pull the wrong message out of them.  Was the punishment of immediate death applied because of not giving enough money?  Did God strike two people down for not giving enough money to the church?

Yes.  And no.  The real and very important reason can be found in our scriptures today.

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