Render unto Caesar: Should Churches Be State Registered? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781728992860)

This book states, defends, and discusses about church-state issues such as tax-exempt status, grants and subsidies, operating a Christian school, properties owned by the church, and other relevant issues dealing with the New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ. True New Testament churches should not be tax-exempt for they are not corporations, and they are non-taxable per se under the American Constitution. Tax exemption shows that a church is a creature of the state and it has the power to destroy its creature. Neither the churches should receive grants and subsidies nor ask for corporate benefits because mere acceptance of such benefits automatically grants the state jurisdiction and power of control over the churches and that is the start of their demise. Incorporated churches do enjoy the privilege of operating Christian schools not under Biblical authority but at the mercy of a humanistic-communistic and wicked public school education system, so churshes should get rid of church incorporation. The properties of the church should be registered in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and the church would just hold them in trust for Him. The New Testament church is the true, Lordship church of Christ, and hence, the Bible should only be its constitution and by-laws. Churches should only be run by pastors assisted by deacons with a theocratic form of government recognizing the sole authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. All church and school workers should be called servants and their remunerations are called love gifts from God. These gifts are not tax-exempt but non-taxable. Churches should not pay in cash, taxes on property, sale and social security, not apply for tax-exempt status, licenses or permits, and many others. Pastors must get out of the system of Caesar and take a Vow of Poverty.

Author: Romeo B. Macale
ISBN-10: 1728992869
ISBN-13: 9781728992860
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2018
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.36d