Question to practicing Christians

[CruciFixed]

I posted this in OBOB but wanted to share here since I am no theologian

I got this on my FB wall

Question to practicing Christians. Is there a difference between tithes and taxes? Read Jesus' answer - Matthew 17:24-27



She doesn't post here.

Any responses?
I read the passage myself and since I Don't see the connection she is making could someone help this ignorant person along?

 

[Heavens]

(Mat 17:24) And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
(Mat 17:25) He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
(Mat 17:26) Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
(Mat 17:27) Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

The Romans demanded tax of strangers.

But we are the children of God.

But as Jesus said, even so, let us pay them lest we get in trouble

 

[Aibrean]

It's different. The temple tax is different than a tithe.

11 The Lord said to Moses, 12 “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord. 14 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord's offering. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the Lord's offering to make atonement for your lives. 16 You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.”

The temple tax is a set amount for all people and a tithe is a percentage.

The temple tax is obviously obsolete. Jesus made the atonement for our lives on the cross

 

[sealacamp]

let us pay them lest we get in trouble

Actually it was let us pay the tax so we don't offend them. If someone gets offended that doesn't necessarily equate to trouble, although it could be. I would take that from Him that it was a signal that we should get along in this world even when, sometimes, what is asked of us isn't right. Yet there is a line between right and wrong that we are told not to cross. The issue for each of us is to find the line that Jesus wants us to draw between right and wrong and then call that for which it is, and go even further and live out what we know to be right.

Sealacamp

 

[A New Dawn]

I posted this in OBOB but wanted to share here since I am no theologian

I got this on my FB wall

Question to practicing Christians. Is there a difference between tithes and taxes? Read Jesus' answer - Matthew 17:24-27



She doesn't post here.

Any responses?
I read the passage myself and since I Don't see the connection she is making could someone help this ignorant person along?

I don't see the connection between the scripture and the question, either, but taxes are mandatory and tithing isn't. It could be argued that it is mandatory if you wanted to be able to go to the temple and be considered a Jew in good standing, but that is between you and God.

 

[Sketcher]

Tithes go to the church, taxes go to the government.

Tithes are freely given, taxes today are automatically withheld.

The "temple tax" was a collection that went to the Jewish temple/local synagogue for its upkeep, and the Jewish leaders called it a tax. Caesar didn't have anything to do with it.

 

[d'Albert]

Taxes are a requirement; tithes are optional.
Taxes go to governments; tithes go to the local church (generally).

I'm missing the connection between the verses and the question too.