"Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
He saw through their duplicity and said to them, "Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
"Caesar's," they replied.
He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." -Luke 20:21-25
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. -Genesis 1:27
"Whose picture is on that coin? It's Caesar. If he's got his image on it, let him have it. But whose image is stamped on you and on me? ...If God has put the stamp of His image on each of us, then everything that we are belongs to God...We can't pledge our allegiance to this nation state or any other nation state, but we pledge our allegiance to God and to God's Kingdom...maybe the church ought to make April 15th a day for pledging our allegiance to the Kingdom and for saying that our money and our homes and our food and our coats on our backs and everything that we have belongs to the Kingdom...money's just something people make, but God makes people and people are what matter." -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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