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Re: Tithing…Is it a command?
Recommendation: Stick to the subject at hand. Is tithing a command (implied, in a New Covenant church)?
The issue is a simple one. If tithing is a requirement on the church, then use the Bible to teach it. If it is not, then the whole argument is mute.
The required teaching then falls to the spiritual leaders to teach the subject of giving. Why, when, where, how much, etc. But, if at any time the law is invoked to support an argument (teaching, doctrine), then one required to actually teach the law!
One of the problems we have within the church today is we have too many teachers of the law, who neither know nor understand what it is they are teaching.
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It makes no difference whether you study in the holy language, or in Arabic, or Aramaic [or in Greek or even in English]; it matters only whether it is done with understanding. - Moshe Maimonides.
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