Private Property Concepts in the Bible and in Historic Context

One day a rich person turned his eyes to Jesus and asked how to inherit eternal life. Even if he kept certain commandments such as not killing, stealing, lying or respecting your parents, he still can not fully obey the law. Because Jesus was asked to devote all his wealth to the poor. Jesus told his disciples that it is easier to go through a needle hole than a rich where a camel enters into the kingdom of God. (Mark 10: 17-10: 25) The Bible story is not to persuade people to remain poor but to maintain loyalty to God.

We often read the Bible story without considering the historical background. As a result, we will not notice the historical validity of the story. In some cases, the story is used as a tool to share an ethical concept or to teach a course. Jonah is an example used to determine whether this particular story explains the exact story of history or whether it tells the reader lessons. - The people of Nineveh lived in evil, and Jonah was called to order them to repent. In addition, the citizen is governed by the king; furthermore, after the warning of Jonah people repent and return to the Lord. In addition, Nahum's book is almost exclusively to talk to the people of Nineveh; Nahum predicts that their evil, silly, unrepentant lives will lead to destruction

In order to understand the historical background correctly, we usually need to get some external help. A good tool may be some good reviews that will provide a reliable historical background of Biblical dictionaries, Biblical encyclopedia, and perhaps people and places. To understand the context seems to be a detective to find clues and get knowledge about everything around the text. For example, it is interesting and useful to have a historical understanding of how Abraham lives in society and how to treat strangers. When we simply superimpose the current attitude toward strangers in the Abraham era, most of the stories in Genesis 18 seem nonsensical and strange. What we can learn from historical customs is that when Abraham acted according to accepted practice they greeted strangers and ran toward them in front of them and fed them with food did. His hospitality is consistent with the glory characteristics of his time.