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I do not think Jesus expanded the commandments, I think he simplified them.


It was never ok to steal from your enemy or sleep with your enemy's wife. Heck your neighbor can be your enemy, cant they?   The last 6 commandments, only one was personal.. Honor your parents.   The rest is for how we are to treat others.  I think neighbors is the way they worded it then, today we might say fellow man.. well wait some fem might freak on that so ... fellow human?


Do you remember the story of the widows mite?  


She gave 2 mites, some other man gave something like a thousand... and Jesus asked who gave more.


Everyone said the rich guy and he said no, the widow because she gave all she had.


and the great one about giving a man a fish and he eats for a day but teach him to fish and he eats for a life time.


Jesus was no liberal and I do not see anything in what he said or taught that would lead me to think its ok to over tax some to give to others who didnt make it so great in life.


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