Health Care Reform Law - an official source listing.
Implementation Timeline
The implementation timeline is an interactive tool designed to explain how and when the provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years.
You can show or hide all the changes occurring in a year by clicking on that year. Click on a provision to get more information about it. Customize the timeline by checking and unchecking specific topics.
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ReplyDeleteWho's a foreign-born, brown-skinned, anti-war socialist who gave away health care? ...
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Bible, that would be Jesus.
I am quoting the Word. Smithson deleted the Word - heresy.
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just. [Luke 14:13 &14.]
For the one in authority is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give to everyone what you owe: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor." (Romans 13:1-7)
In the OT the law of Moses and the Hebrews provided an institutional way of providing for the poor that did not depend on good will of individuals. Not only was individual generosity encouraged, but, as a matter of LAW, part of everyone's produce or income was to be set aside to aid the poor:
"And you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield, but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove. (Exodus 23:10-11)
"When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns, and be satisfied. (Deuteronomy 26:12)
The Old Law was given to one people and one people only, the Jews. In no way does it apply as an enforceable set of laws to anyone in the present-time.
ReplyDeleteThe New "Law" is not a law, at all (Jeremiah 31:31-34).
I hasten to add that the spirit of the old law(s) is an inextricable nuance of the new law , but, again, not as a law by which we are judged but by rite of a larger narrative designed for the sake of guidance and expressed in the teachings of Jesus.
Most definitely, the words of Christ were never to be taken as a compulsory law of some sort, a guide to be administered by the secular and antagonist "State." Unless and until you come to believe that the law you quote as if you know what you are talking about, is to be administered by officials who are believers in the God of the Jews, you are wasting your time.
You, for example, do not get to tell me HOW to express my faith-based relationship with the Christ of God. And, if I do not "report" to you, I do not report to the State, whether that State be godless or otherwise.
It is interesting to me that Marxist liberals constantly push against the free expression of religion in our state of affairs, but run - as if disciples - to the very argument you are making.
What of the laws that require brokenness and submission to God. Will you now seek to enforce those aspect of the law from which you quote.
Hypocrite.