A thought on tithing

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Originally Posted by DaveC519

No doubt it was not your intention to inject an ad hominem into your statement above.
And perhaps you didn't yet have the opportunity to follow the link I included to my post where I said I was NOT arguing for a Levitical tithe?

Certainly not, except for that word diatasso (also discussed in the same post) which was more often than not translated as "command"- a command given to the church to support the ministry IN LIKE MANNER as the priests who waited upon the altar. And what was that system which supported them? The tithe.

So, yes, other than those clear statements from Paul on how the ministry was to be supported, he simply wasn't forthcoming at all!

You would if one was arguing for a continuation of the Levitical tithing system. But since neither Paul nor myself are arguing that....

What we're dealing with is something that Paul wrote many years later which applies to the church. The Apostle Peter viewed Paul's writings to be on the same level as other Scripture (2Pet 3:16), and I do, too. So, if Paul said it, then I hold it to be authoritative.

I highly encourage everyone to obey the commands of our Lord with a cheerful heart, and diatasso in 1Cor 9:14 is most definitely a command.

I cannot speak for most preachers, nor am I in a place to judge their hearts. I prefer to leave that up to the Righteous Judge, Jesus Christ the Lord.


Yeah....see... there's that ad hominem thing again. When one employs a logical fallacy, it only serves to weaken their argument, not strengthen it. Care to try again?

You would know about ad hominems...

practicing it so often makes you an expert.

Like Kept By The Word said in another post, we are all ministers of the word. We are all to be sharing with each other.

There wasn't a problem until the protestants patterned themselves after the Catholic Church by separating themselves into a different class from the rest of the brothers and sisters and calling themselves...Clergy.

We are all supposed to be sowing and reaping in the spiritual and carnal things. We are all supposed to be laboring for the Lord, praying for one another, visiting the sick, uplifting the poor with our excess.