Edit: somebody needs to clear his tabs.

Great posts, you two!

It IS a God-given (or "natural" or "fundamental") right. It is not a right to a specific property, but rather a right to own property, generally, provided one can honestly acquire it.

To elaborate on that, “theft” is a sin. For theft to be a sin, it follows that property must be a right granted by God. Property, in the vein of “come, let us reason together” is a necessity because two men cannot eat the same apple not farm the same land with two different crops. Both these items would create conflict if the right to manage them was not somehow reasonably derived.

Great posts, you two!

It IS a God-given (or "natural" or "fundamental") right. It is not a right to a specific property, but rather a right to own property, generally, provided one can honestly acquire it.

To elaborate on that, “theft” is a sin. For theft to be a sin, it follows that property must be a right granted by God. Property, in the vein of “come, let us reason together” is a necessity because two men cannot eat the same apple not farm the same land with two different crops. Both these items would create conflict if the right to manage them was not somehow reasonably derived.

It IS a God-given (or "natural" or "fundamental") right. It is not a right to a specific property, but rather a right to own property, generally, provided one can honestly acquire it.

To elaborate on that, “theft” is a sin. For theft to be a sin, it follows that property must be a right granted by God. Property, in the vein of “come, let us reason together” is a necessity because two men cannot eat the same apple not farm the same land with two different crops. Both these items would create conflict if the right to manage them was not somehow reasonably derived.