A thought on tithing

[DaveC519]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

You would know about ad hominems...

practicing it so often makes you an expert.

Please cite where I employed an ad hominem attack. Thank you. I define "ad hominem" by the following:
2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument.
(Dictionary.com)

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.

The context of 1Cor 9 is the "we [who] have sown unto you spiritual things" (vs. 11), and Paul lists himself, Barnabas, Peter, the Lord's brethren (presumably James and Jude), and other Apostles. IOW- those of the five-fold ministry (Eph 4:11). If the context was intended to be the corporate ministry of one believer to the other, it is strange how this is conspicuously absent from this passage.

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.

And yet Paul specifically classifies those who are ordained within the Body "for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ (Eph 4:12)"- the five-fold ministry.

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.

I don't disagree with your statement, but this does not obviate Paul's assertion that a right existed to "reap carnal things" from those among whom "spiritual things had been sown". And who possessed that right, a right which was to be patterned (IN LIKE MANNER) after the Levitical tithing system (vs. 13)? "they which preach the gospel" (vs. 14).