Tithes........

[Drama Queen]

Let me start off my saying that I am 100% for paying tithes... (don't really care what the Pastor does with them after I've done my part.) I believe that the tithes should be the first thing paid! You pay tithes before your bills. <-JMHO

OK.... I was always taught that you tithe on your INCREASE. So you tithe on the money you bring home. But what about when you sale your home? Do you tithe on that money?

If you are rolling all the money you are getting from the sale of your home into a new home, are you to tithe on that money before you use it as a down payment? I was raised that you would not tithe on it because you are putting that money into another home. If you were putting that money into your pocket.... then you should tithe on it.


So...... I'm asking you spiritual folks what you would do. I'd really like to know.

[Sherri]

That's a tough one. I do believe that you are to tithe on any increase, so I guess that means on the sale of a house too. I hadn't really thought of it before.

[IAintMovin]

Originally Posted by Sherri

That's a tough one. I do believe that you are to tithe on any increase, so I guess that means on the sale of a house too. I hadn't really thought of it before.

I tithe on increase.....to me this is increase.....guess it is how you want your blessing......but you already knew this didnt ya??

[Neck]

Originally Posted by IAintMovin

I tithe on increase.....to me this is increase.....guess it is how you want your blessing......but you already knew this didnt ya??

Then let's get our homes appraised every year. SO the Church can get 10% of the increase. She would pay the tithe on the increase when the money is liquidated after she sells her final home.

Do you have your possession's appraised each year?

If not why?

Should church members pay a tithe on their 401k or an IRA that they can't touch?

I see my pention going up each year at work.

I can't touch it for 20 more years. But it is increasing?

Do you pay a tithe on the free loaf of bread at the Grocery store?

Is that the next step.

Let's evaluate our networth each year and pay a tithe.

Can she go back to the church 5 years from now when she sells her new home and takes a loss, because markets crashed?

[IAintMovin]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

Then let's get our homes appraised every year. SO the Church can get 10% of the increase. She would pay the tithe on the increase when the money is liquidated after she sells her final home.

Do you have your possession's appraised each year?

If not why?

Should church members pay a tithe on their 401k or an IRA that they can't touch?

I see my pention going up each year at work.

I can't touch it for 20 more years. But it is increasing?

Do you pay a tithe on the free loaf of bread at the Grocery store?

Is that the next step.

Let's evaluate our networth each year and pay a tithe.

Can she go back to the church 5 years from now when she sells her new home and takes a loss, because markets crashed?

OK Neck even though I realize that this is a public forum, my response was to DQ and NLYP since we have already discussed this over the phone.....well NLYP and I did anyway.....it was TIC to them....dont go and try to make a doctrine out of my reply, ..... guess I should have qualified my response....

[Neck]

Originally Posted by IAintMovin

OK Neck even though I realize that this is a public forum, my response was to DQ and NLYP since we have already discussed this over the phone.....well NLYP and I did anyway.....it was TIC to them....dont go and try to make a doctrine out of my reply, ..... guess I should have qualified my response....

Understood. I comments were to your statements and my thoughts.

Nathan Eckstadt

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

Then let's get our homes appraised every year. SO the Church can get 10% of the increase. She would pay the tithe on the increase when the money is liquidated after she sells her final home.

It's not increase until you sell it. It's your profit margin from the sale of any goods. Someone that owns a business and makes sales does the same

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

Then let's get our homes appraised every year. SO the Church can get 10% of the increase. She would pay the tithe on the increase when the money is liquidated after she sells her final home.

Do you have your possession's appraised each year?

If not why?

Should church members pay a tithe on their 401k or an IRA that they can't touch?

I see my pention going up each year at work.

I can't touch it for 20 more years. But it is increasing?

Do you pay a tithe on the free loaf of bread at the Grocery store?

Is that the next step.

Let's evaluate our networth each year and pay a tithe.

Can she go back to the church 5 years from now when she sells her new home and takes a loss, because markets crashed?

BTW if you tithe on the money you put into those investments then you don't have to tithe on it again. However you may give a percentage to equal how much it has increased in interest. Im not sure how this would be done....

[Drama Queen]

Originally Posted by IAintMovin

I tithe on increase.....to me this is increase.....guess it is how you want your blessing......but you already knew this didnt ya??

Not really sure what that's about.

I'm asking cause I don't wanna be in the wrong. If I have been doing something that's not right by God's standards, I wanna know so that I can from this point on, do right.

[LaVonne]

Originally Posted by Drama Queen

Not really sure what that's about.

I'm asking cause I don't wanna be in the wrong. If I have been doing something that's not right by God's standards, I wanna know so that I can from this point on, do right.

I think it's a good and valid question!

I'm not so sure a person needs to give tithes on capital gains from the sale of a home unless they do not plan to reinvest the whole amount into another home. It's not as if you are getting a check for this money...