Stop Putting Socialism in the Bible
Oh seriously go reproduce with yourself Theocrat. The basic tenant of socialism is "To each according to his need." You know where that comes from? The freaking Bible! Get off your hobby horse and go back and read it. Socialism is not based on covetousness. It's based on false idealism. The idealism is that those who have should help those who have not. And even in the Old Testament you see elements of redistribution of wealth from the year of Jubilee where debts were wiped out or the gleaning system where wealthy farmers were required not to harvest every bit of grain possible so that the poor could pick up food for free. When Jesus' disciples walked through a field that someone else owned and picked an ate grain, that was a form of socialism. Socialism ultimately doesn't work as a basis for an economy. But to put religious significance on it as you are is borderline blasphemous.
I do not agree with socialism because it is a failed economic policy. But the early Christian church was pure voluntary socialism. The idea behind socialism, everyman according to his need, comes straight from the book of Acts. When the disciples picked and ate grain in a field that was owned by someone else that was a form of socialism straight from the law of Moses. The year of Jubilee, where debts were wiped out, was a form of redistribution of wealth. Socialism is not based on greed. Socialism is based on idealism. Moses telling wealthy planters "Don't reap all your grain but leave some for the poor" was not based on greed.
Leviticus 23:22 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.'"
Acts 4:32-35 32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.
Deuteronomy 15:1 "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts.
The basic tenet of Socialism is the abolition of private property, that is, property should be owned by the social community (through the mediation of a civil body) and under the democratic control of people. If you don't understand that fundamental principle of Socialism, then you're going to get everything else wrong, which in this particular case, is your desperate attempt to suggest that Scripture promotes Socialism.
For starters, each of the passages that you cited illustrate that it was the responsibility of
property owners (
not kings or judges) to take care of the poor. The gleaning laws, for example, presided with each member of the covenant community, to allow the poor and needy to store food and eat. Thus, it was not the duty of the king to force those land owners to allow the poor to glean from their fields; the land owners understood that it was God Who commanded them to have mercy upon the poor with their property. Thus, there was no redistribution of wealth from a "top-down" approach (as you have in Socialism)--it was "bottom-up."
Concerning Acts 4:32-35, once again, we find that there was
no civic, magisterial authority nor any
electoral system derived from that magisterial authority imposing on the apostles to share their possessions. It was an ecclesiastical imperative with a temporal, specific purpose to take care of the needy for the sake of the Gospel (which ultimately lead to the need for deacons). Once again, that is
not Socialism.
So, if anything is "borderline blasphemous," it's people like yourself who want to use eisegetical, if not anachronistic, approaches to justify Socialism by suggesting that God's Word supports such a system (as Socialism is classically understood). It does not. God is the Creator, and that means the world belongs to Him. Therefore, no civil body nor civic administrator has the authority to take property from one person's hard labor and give it to another person who does not want to work with his hands to bear fruit in this world. Or have you forgotten what God mandated in 2 Thessalonians 3:10:
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Gleaning was never a permanent status for the one who gleaned;
it was there to teach the one gleaning that he ought to work with his hands so that he could one day be fruitful and give to the poor and needy of his own wealth, without the imposition of a king or a judge. That is not Socialism; that is charity, my friend.
Nice to see you! 
