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Jesus came to forgive debts, not sins. The original meaning of the Lord’s Prayer in Hebrew and Greek was “Forgive us our debts.” When he unrolled the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue and declared that he “came to proclaim the year of the Lord,” he spoke of “deror” or debt cancellation. He advocated for the tradition of the Jubilee year which was brought from Babylonia into Judaism, and which served to restore balance and relieve debt slaves and their families from indefinite servitude to lending classes.

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Aurelius 2y ago

There has always been a struggle between the state protecting society from the creditor class, and the oligarchy trying to prevent debt cancellation.

Jesus advocated for the Jubilee year, to periodically cancel debts and release the people from their bonds of debt peonage to the creditor class.

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