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Needed: new 10% tax to fund Christianity. Also, conscription
Biblical Law calls for True Christian™ churches to be funded with a 10% income tax (Genesis 28:22). Also, we get to draft your firstborn child: (Exodus 13:12-13) This is not an optional donation, God states clearly that failure to pay this tax is a crime:
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
This will be a flat tax, except for the poor, who are to give everything: Mark 12:41-44.
This doesn't mean that income taxes actually have to rise 10%. This is an entirely different system, there are no loopholes whatsoever: one tenth of your stuff, now, until we have 10% of the US GDP (about 1 and a half trillion dollars). If you don't want to see your tax bill rise, just cut a trillion and a half from the rest of government. Here's a chart of where federal money goes, I'm sure you can plenty of things that can be removed:
So where will this one and a half trillion dollar tax go? In the long run, back to you, times 100: (Matthew 19:29, Mark 10:31, Matthew 13:23) Tell me, what investment opportunity can promise such a return on investment, believably? Yes, I know every scam makes promises like this, but how many real ones? Clearly this is the best investment opportunity of all times.
Once we start collecting the tithe worldwide, it will raise $6.312 Trillion dollars, (10% of the world's GDP). So, what are we to spend that money on?
Church renovations seems like a good place to start. God tells us how a church is supposed to look: this is why the Bible tells us about the temple of Solomon in such detail. 1 Kings 7:48 tells us to put lots of gold in our churches. They should be renovated to have swimming pools, at 136 cubic meters or more: 2 Chr. 4:5–6) Some more things on God's wish-list: Its walls were lined with cedar, on which were carved figures of cherubim, palm-trees, and open flowers, which were overlaid with gold. Chains of gold further marked it off from the Holy of Holies. The floor of the Temple was of fir-wood overlaid with gold. The door-posts, of olive-wood, supported folding-doors of fir. The doors of the Holy of Holies were of olive-wood. On both sets of doors were carved cherubim, palm-trees, and flowers, all being overlaid with gold (1 Kings 6:15 et seq.)
Once the renovations are done, it's time to ask "What Would Jesus Do"? Well, Jesus had expensive tastes, see the Annointing of Jesus in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 7, and John 12.
The anointing of Jesus is an event reported by each of the Canonical gospels, in which a woman pours the entire contents of an alabastron of very expensive perfume over the head (according to Mark and Matthew) or feet (according to John and Luke) of Jesus. The anointing angers some of the onlookers because the perfume could have been sold for a year's wages—which the Gospel of Mark enumerates as 300 denarii—and the money given to the poor.
And of course, now that we can afford it, it's time to go back to the optional but still much-loved (by God) practise of animal sacrifice. See how it works in Leviticus.
Any other ideas on how to spend 6 trillion dollars every year?
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
This will be a flat tax, except for the poor, who are to give everything: Mark 12:41-44.
This doesn't mean that income taxes actually have to rise 10%. This is an entirely different system, there are no loopholes whatsoever: one tenth of your stuff, now, until we have 10% of the US GDP (about 1 and a half trillion dollars). If you don't want to see your tax bill rise, just cut a trillion and a half from the rest of government. Here's a chart of where federal money goes, I'm sure you can plenty of things that can be removed:
So where will this one and a half trillion dollar tax go? In the long run, back to you, times 100: (Matthew 19:29, Mark 10:31, Matthew 13:23) Tell me, what investment opportunity can promise such a return on investment, believably? Yes, I know every scam makes promises like this, but how many real ones? Clearly this is the best investment opportunity of all times.
Once we start collecting the tithe worldwide, it will raise $6.312 Trillion dollars, (10% of the world's GDP). So, what are we to spend that money on?
Church renovations seems like a good place to start. God tells us how a church is supposed to look: this is why the Bible tells us about the temple of Solomon in such detail. 1 Kings 7:48 tells us to put lots of gold in our churches. They should be renovated to have swimming pools, at 136 cubic meters or more: 2 Chr. 4:5–6) Some more things on God's wish-list: Its walls were lined with cedar, on which were carved figures of cherubim, palm-trees, and open flowers, which were overlaid with gold. Chains of gold further marked it off from the Holy of Holies. The floor of the Temple was of fir-wood overlaid with gold. The door-posts, of olive-wood, supported folding-doors of fir. The doors of the Holy of Holies were of olive-wood. On both sets of doors were carved cherubim, palm-trees, and flowers, all being overlaid with gold (1 Kings 6:15 et seq.)
Once the renovations are done, it's time to ask "What Would Jesus Do"? Well, Jesus had expensive tastes, see the Annointing of Jesus in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 7, and John 12.
The anointing of Jesus is an event reported by each of the Canonical gospels, in which a woman pours the entire contents of an alabastron of very expensive perfume over the head (according to Mark and Matthew) or feet (according to John and Luke) of Jesus. The anointing angers some of the onlookers because the perfume could have been sold for a year's wages—which the Gospel of Mark enumerates as 300 denarii—and the money given to the poor.
And of course, now that we can afford it, it's time to go back to the optional but still much-loved (by God) practise of animal sacrifice. See how it works in Leviticus.
Any other ideas on how to spend 6 trillion dollars every year?
I'm sure the Lord would be overjoyed to have an "intellectual gorilla" like you working for Him!
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