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What's a Christian business owner supposed to do?
World ^
| October 16, 2012
| Mark D. Taylor
Posted on 10/16/2012 9:47:10 AM PDT by cdga5for4
My parents founded Tyndale House Publishers 50 years ago as a Christian publishing company. From the very beginning we have published Bibles, and we also publish a wide range of other Christian books. Our corporate purpose is to minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through literature consistent with biblical principles.
Ive always thoughtin a theoretical waythat I might someday face a situation where the government was asking or telling me to do something that was counter to Gods law as I understood it. If such a situation arose, I hoped I would have the backbone to stand tall and disobey the government mandate. Well, that day seems to have come.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: mandates; obamacare; tyndale; tyndalehouse
As a side note, what makes Tyndale's case even more complicated is its dividends from the profitable operations of the publishing company flow to its non-profit foundation, which has received $38.8 million of Tyndale's $40.2 million in distributed profits. The remaining percent of Tyndale's shares, just over 3.4 percent, are owned by two Illinois trusts that benefit the founder's widow and children.
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posted on
10/16/2012 9:47:13 AM PDT
by
cdga5for4
To: cdga5for4
fire everyone and re-hire them as part-time workers
4-day work weeks anyone? (I’m in!!!!!)
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posted on
10/16/2012 9:50:09 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
("The only thing the World would hate more than the USA in charge is the USA NOT in charge")
To: cdga5for4
Dig into the Holy Bible(KJV) it has information for EVERY situation!
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posted on
10/16/2012 9:54:29 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: cdga5for4
Hang tough...Bath-House Barry’s time seems short.
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posted on
10/16/2012 9:57:51 AM PDT
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
To: cdga5for4
A Godly man and a Godly company are seeking relief from a wrong and unconstitutional rule/penalty through a lawsuit. May our Lord touch and persuade the judges to take the correct course.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:01:31 AM PDT
by
RicocheT
(Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
To: cdga5for4
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:03:12 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: cdga5for4
If I had a business, Christian or otherwise, I'd cash out and go Galt. I'm done feeding the beast. After it starves to death and the bloated corpse falls to bits, we can talk.
But that's just me. It's probabaly good there aren't too many of me.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:09:34 AM PDT
by
jboot
(This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
To: US Navy Vet
And we will pray with you.
Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar’s and render unto God that which is God’s. I think God must come first.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:11:10 AM PDT
by
dirtymac
To: cdga5for4
There is only one answer in this case: SUE.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:12:43 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Osama's dead... and so is our ambassador - Coulter.)
To: US Navy Vet
James ch 5; about keeping wages: don't.
I've come to believe that this includes tax withholdings.
How much control of the government have we lost because we as-a-people cannot say "we will not fund you"?
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:29:13 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: dirtymac
Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasars and render unto God that which is Gods. I think God must come first. With respect to taxes, which is what Jesus was talking about, I've come to believe that our system is evil; it is Cesar taking what is not his: the wages of the hireling, before the hireling has even received them.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:32:15 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: cdga5for4
I’d assert that this was EXACTLY the underlying reason for implementing this travesty.
What they want you to do is STOP BEING CHRISTIAN.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:32:23 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: dirtymac
“Render unto Caesar. . . .”
Caesar doesn’t have any right to order his subjects to kill babies, or otherwise too disobey God’s clear laws.
And, incidentally, to disobey the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which declare that the right to life is a God-given right, never to be violated.
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posted on
10/16/2012 10:33:25 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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