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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
There is not one single scripture that speaks against the tithe.
It is your crowd who speaks against the tithe, not the scriptures
for there is not one single one that says "do not pay tithes" or anything like that.
You go ahead to McDonalds and ask them to feed you for nothing, let me know how it goes.
I have been in plenty of services where I have seen people put not a penny in the plate and yet felt qualified to criticize the sermon or the Pastor.
People go to church and get spiritual food, which is just as important (man shall not live by bread alone) as spiritual food. I have seen the plate passed around with a few pennies, maybe a dollar or two.
would Now try going to McDonald and give the same amount of money you put in the collection plate and let us see how much food your cheapskate non-tithing miserly, stingy crowd get for what they put in the collection plate.
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I know one thing. I'd never want to sit under a pastor with an attitude like yours.
Second to that as far as your McDonald's analogy goes, well I've heard a lot of Pentecostal (I dare not call it Apostolic) preaching that would qualify for the dollar menu. Sometimes the quality of the preaching us trying to pass soy off as meat.
Some folk think real highly of their preaching. I hate when I hear a preacher say "I'm preaching good tonight" or "That's so good I'll have to amen my own message". And ironically most of it is just emotionalism and red meat phrases to work the crowd. But if someone can't even do enough Biblical exposition to realize how weak the tithing doctrine is, well I'm not sure about the rest of their teaching.
As for your righteous indignation when you say "It is your crowd who speaks against the tithe, not the scriptures
for there is not one single one that says "do not pay tithes" or anything like that."
I'd simply point out there is not a single scripture anywhere that speaks of PAYING tithes". But again I suggest, maybe you should just write that into your own version of the Bible like you changed
Matthew 28:19. Make a customized OP Bible. Who needs the Apocrypha when we can just change the text itself?
You also said " Now try going to McDonald and give the same amount of money you put in the collection plate and let us see how much food your cheapskate non-tithing miserly, stingy crowd.". Which makes me wonder if perhaps not only have you not studied the scripture on tithing but perhaps you have missed the scriptures about the qualifications of a bishop. Please allow me to refer you to the criteria of
1 Timothy 3 &
Titus 1.