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RE: Sermons You'll Never Hear In Church - First in a New Series
Another great post @creatr! When people bring up that God says to render to Ceaser what is Ceaser's, they don't realize that Jesus was holding a Roman tax coin and that He was basically saying, "Give this debunk currency back to Ceaser."
However, there is a legitimate tax God allowed for governments. It was the head-poll tax commanded in God's Law. It was only one shekel a year per 20y/o male. That's pretty limited to what we have now.
Greetings, friend,
Thanks for mentioning the poll tax, that's something I could surely use some more reading on. In fact, because you brought it up, I discovered this excellent article.
What perhaps you may have missed is that Jesus pronounced the end of all governments but his own. This means that the "governments" we see today are all pretenders to a right to rule, and part of the global rebellion against "the Lord and against his Anointed."
In simpler terms, no human being or group of human beings has any right to rule other human beings, which also logically excludes the supposed power to coercively tax them.
A government that is against Christ's own Kingdom is only a state that does not recognize him as Law Giver. Thus, if the government is in submission to God's Law, which is also Christ's Law, then it has the right to do what God's Law commands it to (Poll-Tax).
I agree with the basic premise; a government that rebels against Christ has no right to any tax, because you cannot follow God's Law in part.