The Dangerous Degree of Deception

To give you an example of how deceived, perverted and incompetent many tithing teachers have become; Creflo Dollar makes his claim that there is a biblical basis for literally killing individuals who are not tithers and attempt to enter a church service on an incident involving Joshua and Achan recorded in the Book of Joshua.

This is the scripture that Dollar references and claims provides him the right to end the life of a non-tither. If you will notice, the scripture Dollar refers to have absolutely NOTHING to do with tithing...

Joshua 7:10-26 (which is a record of an Israeli named Achan who confessed to stealing some of the spoils of war and hiding them in his tent);

In verse 21 Achan confesses; "When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it."

His sentence for doing so was death...

Verses 25 and 26; "And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day."

God's commanded tithing had nothing to do with the spoils of war, or of gold or silver or fine garments, and nowhere has God ever commanded that non-tithers be taken out and stoned to death for not tithing. In fact, it is clear that God took care of the lack of tithing Himself;

"And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it." - Malachi 2-3

It's my personal view that Dollar is simply seeking to find a biblical basis to justify and vent his hate, violence, greed, contempt and anger at people who do not show up to his so called "church" and hand over to him ten percent of their hard earned income to him, and if they don't "kill them." 

What we see in Dollar's sick demented claims is scripture taken completely out of proper context, and scripture twisting by the twisted mind of a false and dangerous tithing teacher.

Dollar's perverted use of Joshua Chapter Seven can be found in his book "The Covenant Connector, How to get Connected to the Promises of God through The Tithe" (pages 56-57). A book filled with incompetent nonsense where, among other false teachings, Dollar  claims that we have no covenant with God unless we faithfully tithe.

Along with his false claims of a requirement of tithing to maintain our covenant with God, Dollar has also made the following demonic statements while spreading his lies about the subject...

"If you take time to tithe correctly, it's impossible to go to hell."

"Tithing will keep you in heaven, it will keep you in the presence of God."

"We know that the tithe is the agreement, we know the tithe, according to this we're believing right now, the tithe is the covenant."

"I'm telling you that your tithe is your covenant connector."

"I'm telling you that ALL the promises that God ever gave you, you cannot get them without being connected to them with the tithe."

"I'm telling you that the only way you gonna get hooked up to healing is through the tithe."

"I'm telling you that the only way you gonna get hooked up to prosperity, deliverance, or ANY promise in the word of God, is through the tithe."

A summary of Dollar's desire to kill non-tithers is seen here taken from a public statement Dollar made from his pulpit, a pulpit used for years to pillage and plunder his tithing victims...

"non tithers, line them up in the front, pass out Uzi (machine guns), at the count of three Jesus', shoot them all dead, take them out the side door, have a big hole (mass grave) and bury them, and then go ahead and have church, if we were not under the blood of Jesus I would certainly try it, folks this is a serious thing."


Creflo Dollar is clearly a dangerous menace to the Body of Christ, not only because of his violent rhetoric, but also because of the long list of lies and deceptions this man has engaged in for decades leading people into sad ungodly bondage which is always the result of satan's filthy lies.
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