jmb on Nostr: "Modern readers then move to application, instinctively interpreting this to mean ...
"Modern readers then move to application, instinctively interpreting this to mean that Jesus' words (in addition to its ancient meaning) require modern Christians to pay whatever taxes are levied upon them, regardless of how comprehensive. Rather than a specific way to fund and recognize the particular, legitimate, God-appointed-and-defined duties of magistrates, this and other tax-referencing passages in Scripture become chisels to carve away at the consciences and checking accounts of everyday people.
This is a textbook example of why James warned that not many should be teachers."
https://open.substack.com/pub/economicsofglory/p/misrendering-jesus-part-1Published at
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