Read it at The Huffington Post
In a British magazine, the leader of the world's 78 million Anglicans worldwide insisted that Jesus would be "there, sharing the risks, not just taking sides."
Rowan Williams Says Jesus Would Be Siding With Occupy Movement
by Al Webb, Religious New Service
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That contradicts another statement by Williams where he said Jesus would NOT have joined the protests.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/archbishop-tells-occupy-london-protesters-jesus-may-not-be-on-your-side/story-e6frg6so-1226215123794
White priest speak with forked tongue.
Good one Ralph!
Paul warned the ecclesia about this: "that we may by no means still be minors, surging hither and thither and being carried about by every wind of teaching, by human caprice,..."
The Bishop: "Faced with what looks like a simple challenge about whether you pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not, he famously shrugs it off, saying, ‘Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to God.’
In other words: don’t just imitate me: think. What’s the exact point at which paying taxes to the Empire gets in the way of serving God? What’s the exact point at which involvement in the ‘empire’ of capitalist economy compromises you fatally? "
He never shrugged anything off.
And I dont get his point; how does paying taxes get in the way of anything? I dont get it. Or "participating" in an economy? What are we supposed to do, starve?
This guy simply does not understand how state currency systems work, so he comes up with "shrugs it off" and this BS about "reasoning" amoung ourselves, when the Lord specifically taught AGAINST "reasonings".
Jesus was simply telling His lost sheep to pay their taxes to the political/civil authorities with the state currency. It is a serious matter.
Paul would go on later to further explain these issues to the ecclesia of Christ Jesus in Romans 13:
"1 Let every soul be subject to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except under God. Now those which are, have been set under God,
2 so that he who is resisting an authority has withstood God's mandate."
Then taxes:
"5 Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of indignation, but also because of conscience.
6 For therefore you are settling taxes also, for they are God's ministers, perpetuated for this self-same thing."
Paul informs us that paying taxes are NOT so that govt has "money to spend" (like we in the MMT paradigm have been given to understand). Paying taxes are our way of acknowledging the authority of civil government that has been set under God (simply the 'authority' not the people who occupy the positions).
Currently we have exceedingly greedy (Grk: 'more-havers') and callous people in these positions of authority, whose "comprehension has been darkened" and the result is this chaos.
I cant blame these young people for protesting against these unjust outcomes. Outcomes that do not exhibit "the action of the law".
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