A COVENANT WITHOUT TITHING
The New Testament is a Covenant, a list of promises and instructions we inherit of which God has given humanity. Humanity has no input concerning the elements and promises of the New Testament, God is the sole decider of the contents of the New Testament.
One person posted in this group that "the Apostles didn't need to include tithing" for tithing to be required in the New Testament. He was claiming it was "a given not needing and specific inclusion in the New Testament to be required of Christians." Nothing could be further from the truth concerning the structure of a Testament; something not included is not required.
In order for tithing to be included in the New Testament, the command to tithe, the elements of the tithe, the individuals who are authorized to take the tithe, and who is to surrender a tithe would have to be clearly included within the New Testament for tithing to be a New Testament reality. THAT IS HOW A TESTAMENT WORKS; all the requirements of any benefit, any command, any inheritence, any promise must be clearly stated and included in appropriate details in the testament. Anything NOT clearly included in the testament is NOT valid. God would not leave anything unclear.
A properly written testament leaves nothing to guess, nothing for someone add anything, and nothing left out by the Testator.
When one studies the New Testament, it is clear that no requirements or detailed elements of any kind of tithing is included. Not a single scripture in the New Testament instructs a Born Again Christian Believer to tithe anything to anyone under any circumstances.
As noted many times in the past;
In the New Testament no Apostle ever instructed tithing, asked for a tithe, rebuked any person or church for not tithing, or received a tithe. Not one of them.
If tithing was required and taught in the New Testament for Christians, it would have to be clearly detailed and outlined in the terms and conditions of the New Testament like all promises and commands of the New Testament are. Tithing instructions would be clearly included in the New Testament, there are NO SUCH INSTRUCTIONS TO BE FOUND. No such terms, conditions or details are outlined anywhere in the New Testament. Tithing was never, is not now, and will never be part of the New Testament. The New Testament KNOWS NOTHING OF ANY COMMAND FOR A BELIEVER TO TITHE.
This is why there is no record anywhere of tithing being taught or practiced in the early Church. Plenty on freewill and voluntary giving, but not a word or a teaching anywhere on tithing.
JESUS THE TESTATOR
Jesus Christ is the Testator of the New Testament (the terms and conditions are all His decision), and upon His death the Old Covenant was replaced by the New Covenant; i.e.; the New Testament as stated here...
Hebrews 9:15-17 - "And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth."
The Old Covenant is replaced by the New Covenant, thus ending any and all requirements to tithe...
Hebrews 7:18-19 - "For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God."
Hebrews 7:9 states an historic fact, that of "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham" ... yet Hebrews 7:8-9 is in no manner stating that tithing is a Covenant requirement of a New Testament Christian to follow Abraham's example and "pay tithes." Abraham's tithe (with Levi in his loins) proved the superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood over the Levite priesthood; Hebrews 7:7 - "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better."
That superiority has been proven, no further tithing or proof is needed, no further tithing is required of any Christian.
Hebrews 7:8 records that "...here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth." ...the paying of tithes to Melchisedec by Abraham with Levi in his loins is descriptive text, not prescriptive text, not a require of the New Covenant. If Hebrews 7:8 was an act to be followed by New Testament Christians the Apostles would have cited Abraham's tithe to Melchisedec as such and instructed Christians to tithe. The Apostles commanded no such thing. Why do I mention the Apostles? Because God used them to reveal and teach the elements of the New Testament to the New Testament Church;
Ephesians 2:20 - "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;"
Paul also wrote;
Ephesians 3:2-5 - "If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;" ...the Apostle Paul instructed no one to tithe under the New Testament.
NO CITATION INCLUDED
NO SCRIPTURE records Jacob tithing anything to anyone. Even if Jacob would have tithed, it would have been based on A VOW HE MADE UP, NOT a commandment or instructions of God. NO SCRIPTURE cites Jacob as tithing, or a reason to tithe, or an example of tithing to be followed.
NO SCRIPTURE records Abraham being given a commandment or instructions from God to tithe, or that he tithed by faith, or expected anything back for tithing, or that he did so other than one time to Melchisedec, or any other lies and garbage taught by false tithing teachers. NO SCRIPTURE cites Abraham as a reason to tithe or an example of tithing to be followed.
AS A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP HAS NOTED...
"Abraham tithed the spoils of war, not his personal property or income (Hebrews 7:4). To further prove this point, Abraham did not tithe the one thousand pieces of silver he received from Abimelech (Genesis 20:16). If monetary tithing were such an important doctrine; then, Abraham would have taught it to both Isaac and Jacob. The very fact Jacob vows to give a tenth proves he was not taught to tithe (Genesis 28:20-22). Vows are made for a future practice. Jacob should have already been tithing."
CONCLUSION;
The New Testament does not include any requirement for a Christian to tithe, makes no promises for tithing, and clearly ends any requirement to tithe. The New Testament is VOID of any command to tithe to a minister, church or to anyone. A Covenant without tithing requires NO ONE TO TITHE.
Additionally...
Abraham's tithe to Melchizedek was obviously a one time event (Genesis 14:20). First of all, Abraham did not tithe the one thousand pieces of silver received from Abimelech (Genesis 20:16). Furthermore, he did not teach Isaac and Jacob to tithe despite the claim of monetary tithing proponents. Jacob's vow proves this point (Genesis 28:20-22). Why would someone make a vow if they were already practicing something taught to them? Vows are made for something to be done in the future. Contrary to the monetary tithing teachers, Jacob's vow actually refutes their argument instead of supporting it!
NO SCRIPTURE records Jacob tithing anything to anyone. Even if Jacob would have tithed, it would have been based on A VOW HE MADE UP, NOT a commandment or instructions of God. NO SCRIPTURE cites Jacob as tithing, or a reason to tithe, or an example of tithing to be followed.
NO SCRIPTURE records Abraham being given a commandment or instructions from God to tithe, or that he tithed by faith, or expected anything back for tithing, or that he did so other than one time to Melchisedec, or any other lies and garbage taught by false tithing teachers. NO SCRIPTURE cites Abraham as a reason to tithe or an example of tithing to be followed.
AS A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP HAS NOTED...
"Abraham tithed the spoils of war, not his personal property or income (Hebrews 7:4). To further prove this point, Abraham did not tithe the one thousand pieces of silver he received from Abimelech (Genesis 20:16). If monetary tithing were such an important doctrine; then, Abraham would have taught it to both Isaac and Jacob. The very fact Jacob vows to give a tenth proves he was not taught to tithe (Genesis 28:20-22). Vows are made for a future practice. Jacob should have already been tithing."
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