This time we’re going to look to the scripture for an answer to a question that’s come up regarding charitable giving and the long-held tradition of the church and state in America. That tradition being the tax-exempt status of churches, and other charitable organizations.

We start with some of the worldly, historical and philosophical background of tax exempt status for the church in the world. We discuss other types of charities that now enjoy the same status, (even the satanic, anti-Christ, godless, “left leaning” charities).

We look at the biblical concepts taxes, tax protest,and the the exemption of churches from taxes as presented in the Bible. We cover the concepts of this “present evil world”, spiritual warfare, the whole armor of God and the idea of being a soldier in a spiritual war. We briefly consider a couple examples from the gospels involving Jesus speaking to taxation in general.

And then we look at the real world incident that sparked this study, along with an example of real world Christian charity. We then go to the scripture to examine the question: By accepting tax exempt status are ministers putting themselves and their donors in a position to defile charity itself? To do that we look at the concept of purity in the Bible alongside the potential for legalism, and how to draw spiritual application from non-doctrinally applicable scriptures.

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