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07-25-2022, 05:15 PM
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Re: History of Tithes in the Church
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Originally Posted by good samaritan
I think you are making the point he is doing the same thing as we have done with tithing? Tithing is not a NT command and so I am not trying to establish it as doctrine. My point throughout was only that there was no wrong to practice tithing monetarily.
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You can practice it yourself if you want, but God did not command you to do it. It becomes a problem for you when you invalidate God's actual commandments in order to fulfill your self-imposed tax. It also becomes a problem when you teach it to others as a commandment or even as a recommended amount.
In case you missed:
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Originally Posted by coksiw
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Originally Posted by good samaritan
My only point through the entirety of this thread is that it is a good method for supporting church ministries that we have in modern Christianity. Is there one example in the NT where believers had a temple designated for Christian worship? I don’t think there is anything referencing a church building, but does that mean it is forbidden? I don’t think it does.
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...except when the practice hinders God's commandments. Here is an example of man-made commandments that they also attempted to make it a Bible doctrine but ended up invalidating God's commandments.
Mar 7:9-13 NKJV - (9) He said to them, "[All too] well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. (10) "For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.' (11) "But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me [is] Corban"--' (that is, a gift [to God]), (12) "then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, (13) "making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do."
These are the commandments you invalidate with the false teaching of tithing:
* "Honor your father and your mother", some poor or low middle class families would need to decide whether to pay tithes or effectively support their needed parents (a family may have up to four parents to help). Yet, they may choose to do tithing because they believe incorrectly it is a commandment from God above all things as taught by the preacher.
* "But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." Some poor or low middle class families may incur into debt so they can keep paying their tithes, because, again, they believe is a commandment from God above all things, as the preacher told them.
* "(15) If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, (16) and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what [does it] profit?". You know, again, because they are being told by the preacher that the tithing goes above all things, so giving to ministry goes before giving to others in need. Low middle class and poor people can't afford to do both.
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