Quoting Malachi 3:10

Quoting scripture out of context proves nothing.

Sadly, people deceived into the modern tithing scam do little more than quote Malachi 3:10 ad infinitum and ad nauseam, taking it completely out of context. You can claim just about anything taking scripture out of context as he is doing.

Malachi 3:10 was clearing written by Malachi pursuant to the Law of Moses in which Law tithing was established as a commandment of God to the Children of Israel and no one else (see, Psalm 147:19-20). Tithers love to quote Malachi 3:10, but never look just a few verses further and read Malachi 4:4...

"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." 

The entire Book of Malachi was written as a document stemming from the Law of Moses, including the prophecies in Malachi. We are not under the Law of Moses, we have no instructions to tithe.

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." - Romans 6:14

Tithing, as Jesus said, was a matter of the Law (Matthew 23:23); that is to say; tithing was established, codified, organized and commanded in the Law for those under the Law; again, we are not under the Law and not under tithing.

I have this posted before...

In the New Covenant there are no examples of anyone paying a tithe to anyone in any way shape or form. Matthew 23:23 takes place at a time under the Old Covenant and does not instruct a Christian to tithe.

In the New Covenant, no Apostle ever taught tithing, asked for a tithe, rebuked any person or church for not tithing, or received a tithe themselves. Not one of them. The early church (i.e. Book of Acts) NEVER tithed. We have NO record of them doing so.

If based on the New Covenant, that Christians should be tithing, tithing instructions would be clearly included in the New Covenant for us to follow. We cannot tithe based on the Old Covenant because all tithing God had commanded in the Old Covenant was based on the Law of Moses, we are not under the Law of Moses. For Christians under the New Covenant, no such tithing instructions, terms, conditions or details are outlined anywhere in the New Covenant for us to follow; they simply do not exist.

Tithing has NOTHING to do with Christians or Biblical Christianity. Anyone claiming that a Christian must or should be tithing, evening claiming that tithing "is not exactly commanded, but you should still be tithing," is teaching a false doctrine and is lying.

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