 From 1974 and until he passed away in June of 2005, Frank Caw devoted a considerable amount of time to research and study in Bible prophecy and related philosophical and theological issues. This website is dedicated by his family to his memory and work and is as he presented it at the time of his death. The family of Frank Caw, Jr. would like to thank Tim McHyde of EscapeAllTheseThings.com for hosting his website.
While always insisting on a plain, literal and sensible approach to scriptural exegesis,
he has pieced together many new scriptural insights on a number of extraordinary
prophetic developments that are poised to be fulfilled in our immediate
future!
Thus, it is safe to say that things are not going to happen the way many people think
they will happen.
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Thou Shalt Not Steal
Legally
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God's biblical moral laws should encompass and apply to the entirety of human
experience, including the political realm of activity.
Accordingly, the moral prohibition against stealing not only should apply to our lives individually, but to
the collective political actions of voting majorities and politicians as well whenever socialistic government
spending is involved.
Reasonable people, of course, would agree that taxes are necessary for the maintenance of protective
and mediative functions of government, including "safety-net" programs designed to assist people if
their health or life is threatened by the lack of food, or shelter, or medical care, and private charity is
not available to help them.
But, it is important to understand that government and voting majorities should not violate any of God's
moral commandments unless it is truly the only way possible
to comply with higher moral values involving the protection and preservation of innocent life and
freedom and property rights.
Thus, it is not surprising to find that the Bible very emphatically teaches that every individual has
the God-given right to life, liberty, and property, and that government’s primary function is simply “to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (John 10:10) (III John 2) (II Cor. 3:17) (James 1:25; 2:12)
(Gal. 5:1; 6:7) (Rom. 8:21) (Luke 19:12-26) (Matt. 7:12; 16:27; 25:14-30) (Gen. 1:26-28; 9:1-7)
(Ex. 20:12-17) (Rev. 22:12) (Compare Titus 3:1 and Rom. 13:1-10 and I Peter 2:13-14 and Luke
20:25 with Acts 5:29).
Although we may have to fight for these God-given rights (in an appropriate and reasonable manner),
at least, ultimately, they are not dependent upon the whims and passions and appetites of government
officials and voting majorities.
For that reason, it is wrong whenever people use the legal force of government to plunder and rob others
— and this is precisely what happens whenever taxpayers and consumers and employers are forced
by law to support tariffs, subsidies, loans, benefits, guarantees, monopolies, charities, pensions, wage
and price controls, insurance programs, educational assistance programs, free universal health care, and
so on, from which others benefit.
Therefore, any law which benefits some people at the expense of others — a law which takes any
type of property from some people and gives it as a government benefit to others to whom it does not
belong — is a law that is morally wrong unless it truly functions as an essential “safety-net” type of
program.
Hence government taxation should be used to protect the health and life of people whenever necessary,
but taxes should not be used simply to enhance the quality of some people's lives at the expense
of others, i.e., coerced taxpayers.
That is essentially the observation that Thomas Jefferson made in his First Inaugural Address:
"A wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, (but) shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good
government..."
So, even though it may be tempting to improve one's status and lot in life by taking money and property
from other people against their will, God has decreed that such stealing is morally wrong — even if
it is accomplished through legal taxation.
NOTE: This article is based on material adapted from Chapter 3, Section 1 in my book.
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