Thou shalt not kill.... Thou shalt not "knowingly" pay another to kill in our name.
We're not paying the government to kill. We are paying taxes because the law demands it. If we stop paying taxes, then we're guilty of breaking the law, and thus are guilty of the sin of failing to submit to governments. If the government uses some of our money to kill, there's nothing we can do about it without refusing to pay the government or doing our best to elect people who don't do that.
And besides, when Christ told the people to pay taxes to Rome, He knew full well what the Romans were going to do with that money not even 40 years later. Most of the Jews died when Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. Where do you think Rome got the money to pay all of the troops to do this?
Christ knew this was going to happen (He predicted it, afterall!). Yet, He still instructed the people to pay their legal taxes and fulfill their legal obligations as citizens.
Because I know ,(and can stop it) this makes the sin of my Government my sin. I get it... Peace no matter what mind set. After praying & reading scriptures this one stands out Matthew 6:24.
That verse applied to Government = The massive issues we have today in what our government serves.
That verse was never meant to apply to Government. Government does not have a soul, individual people do. Government is made out of a large collection of people, and the way our democracy is designed, is that no one person has complete power over the government. Trust me, those who do evil in our government today will be held accountable for such evil. They know what they're doing, and they do it anyway.
That verse applied to selves "The flock" Not a church, that pays no tax (Thus, soul is clean) but needs its flock to work so the organized building can stand, a preacher "must" preach Rome tax. In reality though this is just the attempt to keep the status-quo.
While it is true that dangers are on the horizon of the government making it difficult for preachers to preach what they should be preaching, I don't really believe that the churches preach "Rome Tax" for the entire purpose of "staying alive". They preach it, because Christ said it. Do we need another reason to preach the paying of taxes? If Christ Himself said to do it, then we're supposed to do it. End of story.
See the problem? One can not in on one hand send missionaries to the Christians killed and in the other pay somebody to kill more. That is "self destruction under complacency" to continue to serve the dollar not GOD. Holding the tax hostage as a Christian Nation would set this war strait.
We aren't paying the US Government to fund ISIS... we're paying the US Government our tax dollars in the hopes that they'd use it for infrastructure, education, national security, etc. Once the money leaves our hands, there's nothing more we can do other than complain and attempt to vote other people in.
We aren't willingly donating to the cause of killing Christians; that's preposterous. We're paying our government our tax dollars, asking them to use this money responsibly. They don't, and we don't want to pay them... but we must, because if we don't, we break the law and we commit sin.
Did you know:
- April 6, 2009. just in time for Easter, President Obama spoke at a press conference in Turkey, a Muslim country, and said of America, "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
Is that truth or lie?
That is truth in what Obama thinks. Remember, he's just one man who thinks he's the King of the USA. And it is true that Atheism is on the rise, ridiculously so I might add, but again... one man has no right to say what religion a nation follows, especially not when he is part of a democracy.
Christian nation serves the people, not the dollar... Yet , looking at that statement not in what we serve (Which makes it true) but in numbers we are LEGION in America (which makes it lie) but must see we make Obama's lie a truth when we apply Matthew 6:24 to that statement. Truth hurts but more importantly, continued complacency in the face of that truth means we do not serve truth. So, this soul will not feed the beast any more ... In a tax out of fear for flesh for my soul will be clear that lives forever.
So... what, you're going to stop paying taxes? Even though Christ Himself told you to do it? What do you suppose would happen if everybody followed your example? Yes, we'd stop funding ISIS, but then everything else would break down too, and we'd simply just have anarchy and crime would skyrocket, roads would fall apart, teachers would walk off their jobs, schools would shut down, we'd run out of funding for our military, etc.
Is that somehow better?
So, I think I will not support my own destruction and call self Christian. For I provoke state by funding state.
