re: Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s

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I disagree. The American government is stealing from its people. One cannot steal their own money from a thief.

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While am adamantly against paying what I feel is unfair taxes. It is there because voters put the people in place who passed them. The way to change that is through the election process.

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I could not disagree more. No where in the Bible can it be interpreted that paying taxes is a salvation issue.

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If we refuse to pay the taxes we owe we are stealing from and most likely lying to the government. Intentionally stealing or lying repeatedly is a salvation issue. The Bible doesn’t say we can break those commandments if we feel just in doing so.

To further my point
Romans 13: 1-7

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Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

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