[A.W. Bowman]

These kinds of forums, such as AFF, are great for expressing and sharing ideas and points of view, but they are almost worthless for sharing (presenting) a sound scriptural teaching – on almost most any subject! About the best anyone can expect is to state what they believe and why, and let everyone else do the same. That is, allow every opinion be “right” and simply allowing them to be expressed and moving on to the next discussion.

Or, the membership can set aside an open the forum to someone who has to be justified in their position, and turn the thread over to them – and allow them to teach their doctrine, and to do so with out objections or interruption.

On the issue of tithing, there are two decidedly different points of view being expressed. One is that tithing is not a New Covenant requirement, and other side is that tithing is required of N.T. believers.

For the side that says tithing does not exist for the N.T. church: That position is given as an axiom and does not require a proof. The burden of proof that tithing does, in fact, exist as a New Testament church requirement rests with the ones making the claim that tithing does exist and applies to the N.T. church.

Therefore, I make the following suggestion.

There are ten tithing statutes in the Bible. Will someone please take up the task of teaching the intent and application all these statutes, and explain how each of them are to be scripturally applied to the New Covenant church? Then if there are any questions, they can be addressed after the lesson(s). That should resolve the controversy quite nicely.

Let the teaching begin.