So, in the beginning, the earth was God’s.
Land did not belong to anyone, because there was no “belonged”. If you wanted to eat, there was every type of tree, desirable to look at and good to eat, and from all those trees one could eat, just stretch out your hands and take. We lived as hunter gatherers, on land that belonged to God and God alone.
But we…
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