Order of Dependency for the Bible-believing Christian

January 30, 2016 | Robert E. Patenaude, Th.D.

[John Leland 1789]

The federal government's list of churches and religious societies exempted from Obamacare. Provided to us by U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3303tfckb3kdu4k/ReligiousExemptionReport.xls?dl=0

[Nifster]

You really do not understand much do you?

[John Leland 1789]

I understand that “Caesar” is not the U.S. federal government, and that there is no Biblical nor governmental reason to call our government “Caesar” as Caesar was called Caesar in Matthew ch. 22.

[Nifster]

You keep asking the same question over and over.

I keep telling you you lack comprehension and understanding....other than that keep going

[Nifster]

oh goody a literal only applies to this moment in time and one can never draw inference from anything point of view

[John Leland 1789]

In the USA the people are Caesar, not the Fed.

[Nifster]

meh. Not really but keep telling yourself that.

[John Leland 1789]

I just could be that you had a socialist public education like I had (mine in California), and that you had a pastor who taught you that you should pay your federal income taxes just because that is what it means to "render unto "Caesar." Or, like in so many churches that are deeply indebted, the pastor actually wanted to emphasize the second part, "render unto God" to get people to give more to pay the church's debts, that God may have never led the church into to begin with, etc.

But "Caesar" was a conquering power over Israel in the time of Jesus' earthly life. Rome was a foreign invader. If the U.S. fed is a "Caesar," then it must be admitted that the federal government has conquered us. Of course, you are free to simply acquiesce to that philosophy.

The role of the federal government is to be the servant of the States, not a conqueror over them, nor an invader.

You have ignored the purpose of the article I have written, though, and that is to remind Bible-believing Christians (not nominal "Christians") that they are and foremost dependent upon God, the God of the Bible they claim to believe. All other forms of dependency flow from there.

Why would reject that?

I don't think you necessarily have, but you missed the purpose of the article.