Subnostr

OK, so your issue is with government, and how their evil must then invalidate Romans 13. Jesus as a tax evading anarchist is more a wish than reality, because otherwise I'm sure you're thinking "how could He let this happen, and tell us to obey". But that doesn't mean we cherry pick or twist scripture ourselves.

I'll send you one last link as its getting late, but it seems to address this well. After which I'll close, as someone living under a government so corrupt that they've run our electricity supply into the ground, and who did not get vaccinated. So trust me, I know. And I'm not here to fight with you, just addressed what I feel is a mischaracterisation of Jesus.

We win in the end, not now.

https://www.evidenceunseen.com/bible-difficulties-2/nt-difficulties/romans-2/rom-131-7-are-we-supposed-to-submit-to-evil-governments/

Joel Walbert 2y ago

show me one example where Jesus actually paid a tax, or where he ever behaved in any way other than an anarchist. One time when he actually submitted to Earthly authority.

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Rob 2y ago

For paying taxes, Matthew 17:24-27, and for submitting to earthly authority and not being an anarchist, Luke 22:49 onwards. He gets arrested, one of his followers tries to fight back and cuts off a soldiers ear, which Jesus rebuked him for and immediately heals, and then even directly asks the soldiers "Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?".

In Matthew 26:

He submitted to everything that happened thereafter, eventually leading to his death on a cross. In yielding to earthly authority here, he was yielded to God.