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Originally Posted by bishoph
It is truly amazing how far some people will go to wrest the scriptures in an attempt to justify their ideology and or false doctrine. You cannot find one place in the New Testament where tithing is taught AGAINST, in fact it is mentioned in 7 verses of the NT and NEVER in a negative light. An argument based on silence/absence is a weak argument on either side.
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Agreed. It us amazing how some wrest the scriptures to set aside everything in the Law and yet keep tithing, albeit while ignoring EVERY SINGLE Old Testament command and instruction about what to do with the tithe.
You can't find one place in the New Testament where peace offerings are taught AGAINST. What's your point?
Yes tithing is mentioned 7 times in the NT, you say never in a negative light. That is arguable. I'm not so sure the parable of the self righteous pharisee is "positive". However positive/negative doesn't really matter, what does is tithing is always mentioned in relation to the Old Covenant. Never is it mentioned to New Covenant believers, nor are we given any instructions on how to collect tithes without a Temple, Levitical priesthood, or when the tithe changed to "money, money, money....moneyyyy".
Furthermore not only does the NT know nothing of tithing but neither does early church history. In fact you've got to get 250 years past Nicea before you even see the issue come up at the Council of Tours which wasn't even an ecumenical council.
Tithing in the New covenant has no precedent in scripture no early church history.
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