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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
I just know churches for years who tithed, lived good lives, had great preachers. No one told them they were going to hell or heaven concerning tithing. They all gave according to 2 Corinthians 9:6-7. Most of these brothers never even thought about a percent, or a half shekel, they gave as much as they could. I have met saints who didn't even know a tithe meant 10%. Do you know what that means? Bro, do you know what that means? |
I think it can mean several things EB. One being that they have not been taught very well.
That probably is not what you had in mind. EB, you believe that I don't understand tithe very well. I get that. But I may understand tithing better than you think.
Remember when you thought that we were exaggerating when we said that pastors were preaching tithing or hell? You discovered that we were truthful about that, didn't you? I realize that you have been sheltered from this doctrine of tithe or hell. It doesn't mean it didn't exist, simply because you hadn't heard of it, does it?
People think that the doctrine of tithing is what it has been for thousands of years. Why do they think that? Because they don't know. The practice of tithing money instead of agricultural products is less than two hundred years old according to what I have studied. People that know that the tithe was reinstated in the sixth century, mostly assume that it was reinstated as money. It wasn't. It was reinstated as agricultural products. The problem with what you don't know is, that you don't know what you don't know.
Tithing is assumed to be what it is and that it will not change. I have found that this is not true. Instead I have found that tithing has been in a constant state of change for about fifteen hundred years.
So when you ask me if I know what it means when people don't even realize that the tithe is ten percent, to me it means that the false doctrine of tithing where you are is not as mature as it is in other areas.
What does it mean to you?
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