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Old 03-30-2009, 10:25 AM
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Interesting to note that Jesus paid the tribute to the king, which presumably was a lawful tax. How you can say that the tribute he paid there in Mark 17 was an example of an unlawful tax, is not clear.
Jesus made the distinction between a child or a stranger to the king of the land, likening ourselves (or the Jews he was speaking to) as children to the true King (Christ), but strangers to the king of the land. This demonstrated that the king of the land will tax his strangers, but the the King of kings will not tax His own children.

In no way do I see anything about unlawful taxation here. Remember, the Jews were hoping for their Messiah to setup a new Kingdom on earth, exempting them from any other earthly king's rule.

Ironically, the examples of Obama's new appointee's that had far worse tax debts being utterfly forgiven, even rewarded, since they are in service to the coming willfull king, compared to Kent, who was in service to the King of kings, in effect was a stranger to the king of the land, not to mention an enemy to the will of the world.

Anyone here ever seen Kent's video called the Straw Man?