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Sacred Sunday~Romans 13/Love Rules but Still Pay Your Taxes

Sacred Sunday~Romans 13/Love Rules but Still Pay Your Taxes

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Happy Easter!!! Today we are reading Romans Chapter 13. Paul's spree of advice continues. Everyone should obey people in positions of authority. After all, al

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Happy Easter!!! Today we are reading Romans Chapter 13.
Paul's spree of advice continues. Everyone should obey people
in positions of authority. After all, all authority comes from God,
so all the authority figures running around out there must have
been hand-picked by God. Makes sense… sort of. That means if you go
against someone in a position of authority, then you're really
going against God. Remember that next time you throw paper
airplanes at your Spanish teacher. Basically, Paul says, if you
just keep walking the straight and narrow and don't step out of
line you should be fine. If you do, those authority figures
have swords and they're not afraid to wield them. (Ironic
historical footnote: about 10 years after writing this, Paul was
executed by the Roman authorities. Wonder if that might make him
revise his thoughts in this section just a little?) Same thing goes
for paying taxes. Sorry, Tea Party and Henry David Thoreau—you've
got to pay them. If you owe money to the government, fork it over.
And if you owe respect and honor to people in positions of power,
then start practicing your groveling now. Don't walk around
owing anyone anything. Period. Oh, except love. You should owe
everyone love all the time. And pay it as often as possible. That's
the essence of all of Jewish law anyway, love. Paul thinks the Ten
Commandments can pretty much be boiled down to "Love your neighbor
as yourself." It's really pretty simple, guys. The hour is at hand.
Salvation is coming soon to a theater near you. Any minute now,
Jesus is gonna come down from Heaven again and make some
non-believers feel pretty darn foolish. Yup. He's talking about the
second coming, folks. So let's all just be good little boys and
girls so we can always be prepared for this. Basically just keep
focused on Christ and do what's good all the time. Easy, right?
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