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Originally Posted by gloryseeker
Hmmmmm,
I read several of your posts and have agreed with many of them, however this type of logic is what gets the Body in trouble.
While it is true that everything is God's and we are only stewards of what is His, so all of what we have should be his also. The struggle with everyone who posts anti tithing theories is that they don't even give the 10%.
But as to the notion of your thinking, if you are true then marriage would be abolished as the Lord (bridegroom) and those who comprise the Church (bride) are espoused to a groom who states that beside Him there shall be no other.
If what you are saying is true then in addition to the tithe the offering is abolished. I have been married for only 24 years, but I don't give my wife offerings because our money is one.
I can go on and on, but biblically (and logically) it doesn't work
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Thanks for your comment.
First, I don't believe in "not" tithing. I just believe God wants "ALL".
I refuse to be drawn into the Pharisiacal way of living, cutting, dividing, chopping, and limiting God who saved me from a horrible pit. I will wind up in the den of thieves if I get out my balances. When my nature is bound by "counting", God moves to the back seat. When are we going to realize this. Those that were rebuked severely by Jesus, tithed. They were lost. They were bound. They did it "right", but they were dead wrong.
The Lord brought me out to give me His Name. My Family is Him. My love is His. He can have anything He wants, anytime, anyplace, without question. This is how I treat my wife, and dare I not give my Maker and my God more?
Marriage is an all out comittment. It's everything. This is what God wants from us, this is why we are considered His Bride. We need to discover the Lord in His fullness, and we will never do this if we only give Him 10%. 10% is the American way, not God's. You can have this Lord, but the rest is MINE! God's way is ALL, just ask His disciples. Just ask the rich young ruler. Ask those of the early Church.
People wonder why tithing is not mentioned in the New Testament. It's easy; God married us and now it's EVERYTHING! This will set us free.
I love Him with my all. Jesus, may you know today, my heart holds nothing back. I've given it before and I'll do it again. My fear is not in losing the things that mean the most to me in this life; It's in losing You.
God Bless, NFS