Considering extra taxes on the rich, (a greater % than the rest of us pay) how do you stand on this issue?
Some hold that the Christian is not motivated by considerations of law, but by love instead. I think this is to place an unbiblical distinction between law and love, a distinction opposed by the Apostles. "Love," said Paul, "is the fulfillment of the law" (Romans 13:10). "This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments," John wrote (1 John 5:3).
The standard of love is, Biblically, nothing other than the law of God. If we are disobedient to the law of God, it has to be said we do not love; conversely, if we do not love, we are breaking the law, which commands us to love.
If, in the name of "love for the poor," I transgress God's law by supporting legal plunder (excessive taxation) of my rich neighbor to fund a poverty program, am I really loving that neighbor, regardless of my profession of love? For isn't love always concerned to fulfill the law of God? Where that concern is absent, does "equal" love really exist? Is there love for that neighbor when I support his taxes being raised when he has not freely chosen to donate to that poverty program?
How say ye on such as this?
Some hold that the Christian is not motivated by considerations of law, but by love instead. I think this is to place an unbiblical distinction between law and love, a distinction opposed by the Apostles. "Love," said Paul, "is the fulfillment of the law" (Romans 13:10). "This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments," John wrote (1 John 5:3).
The standard of love is, Biblically, nothing other than the law of God. If we are disobedient to the law of God, it has to be said we do not love; conversely, if we do not love, we are breaking the law, which commands us to love.
If, in the name of "love for the poor," I transgress God's law by supporting legal plunder (excessive taxation) of my rich neighbor to fund a poverty program, am I really loving that neighbor, regardless of my profession of love? For isn't love always concerned to fulfill the law of God? Where that concern is absent, does "equal" love really exist? Is there love for that neighbor when I support his taxes being raised when he has not freely chosen to donate to that poverty program?
How say ye on such as this?