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Originally Posted by JamesGlen
1 Cor. 9:13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
Isn’t Paul making a comparison between funding for the ot Levitical by way of tithing, and also would thereby promote tithing to the nt preachers in this passage, since he chose to use 2 words of comparison, “ EVEN SO”? (Or LIKEWISE)
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You are making the MOST fundamental of errors when you equate tithing with funding. Words have definitions. When we discuss tithing we should remember that the tithe was “holy unto the Lord”. So we should use the definition that the Lord used, after all we don’t want to defile what is holy to Him, now do we?
Lev.27
[30] And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
God was pretty specific what this “holy tithe” was to be. He was specific as to what was to be done with it as well . . .
Numbers 18
[28] Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest.
[29] Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
[30] Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
[31]
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
If you notice, the tithe was to be eaten. This was a commandment from God concerning the tithe. There are, to my knowledge only two possible exceptions to this command. One being if an unclean animal was tithed, such as a camel 🐪. It was against the law to eat the camel because it was unclean. The second being that a man was allowed, but never required to redeem his tithe of the seed of the land (animals were exempt from redemption). In this case he would add one fifth to the monetary value of his tithe, and was allowed to take possession of his tithe.
The bottom line is that tithing money was not allowed. Hence equating tithing with funds is (according to scripture) a direct disobedience to God!