Posted on 03/26/2015 5:51:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
If a government does anything wrong with taxes (let alone your example), do they make you sin when they take taxes from you?
Beware such an argument because it goes against Jesus’ own words.
Unless it were something explicit like an abortion support surcharge on your tax bill, that doesn’t count in this context. Tomorrow they could change the law and stop doing that with the money they have collected. The moral onus is on those with the authority to spend, not the authority to take.
Beware that your “cordially” isn’t actually “self congratulatorily.”
My point, well buttressed by the bible, is that in fact by God’s economy, governments don’t lose their legitimate rights and duties because of sinning, although the Lord may cause them to lose their places through the transpiration of worldly events.
Of course when they sin, they sin. That is a tautological truth. This is not heaven and heaven’s rules do not apply to the authorization of a government to be a government.
As for the idea of righteously overthrowing a government, at best we have to bring into the picture Jesus’ advice about meeting one army with a differently sized one. If you have bumped away Nero but established an anarchy, you probably have sinned.
Continue the coverage thru the wife's employer under COBRA.........
Does a government have authority to spend money for abortion killing?
Beware that your “cordially” isn’t actually “self congratulatorily.”
"Self congratulatorily"? Does my intention and expression of cordiality offend you? It is sincere and I'm not going to stop because of anything you say.
Cordially,
Exactly. Especially with respect to the "legitimate" part. My only nit with it is that governments have "powers" and duties, not "rights", but otherwise I agree with the general sentiment of your entire post.
Cordially,
The other end of a duty is a right. It is silly to say an entity has a duty to do something and yet not a right.
I do get a sense you are trying to gladhand some fallacies onto me. Inasmuch as you are, yes I am offended, and if you bullheadedly go on, you also offend God.
That only goes for a limited time, then he’s in the same position.
True, 18 months......but at least it wouldn't have given the media more fodder to attack him. And in 18 months he might have a new job as president
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