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There is much literature about the fraying of America into different social classes that never interact or have almost nothing in common. See Charles Murray, Coming Apart and Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods. The staggering inequality of wages is a no less blatant example of the fraying of our social fabric. The AFL-CIO found that based on 2012 salaries the average CEO makes 354 times the salary of the average employee. Jesus' comments about how he and the Father share all things (a consequence of the Trinity doctrine) have implications for addressing our social ills. Early Christian apologist Clement of Alexandria makes this point clear:
God brought our race into communion by first imparting what was his own, when he gave his own word, common to all, and made all things for all. All things therefore are common and not for the rich to appropriate an undue share.
(Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 268)
The common sharing of the Father means that there is no place for a lack of sharing, for isolation, among the people of the triune God. If Father and Son share all things, then Christians cannot be content with all the disparities that surround us.
God brought our race into communion by first imparting what was his own, when he gave his own word, common to all, and made all things for all. All things therefore are common and not for the rich to appropriate an undue share.
(Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2, p. 268)
The common sharing of the Father means that there is no place for a lack of sharing, for isolation, among the people of the triune God. If Father and Son share all things, then Christians cannot be content with all the disparities that surround us.
