THE FOOLISH QUESTIONS AND CLAIMS OF TITHERS
Lamentations 3:37 - "Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
We see them everyday!
We often read comments from "tithers" who believe that their questions and claims "prove that a Christian should be tithing." Questions they believe cannot be answered without affirming "New Testament tithing." As often said, NOTHING could be further from the truth. Their questions in fact expose their ignorance.
Typical questions and comment are; "Will tithing send you to hell?" ... "Is it a sin to tithe?" ... "Did Jesus preach against tithing?" ... "Where did Jesus tell us to stop tithing?" ... "Tithing doesn't have to be instructed in the New Testament because God already told us to tithe in the Old Testament." (obvious question; Who is the "us" who has been told to tithe? ...not Gentiles, not the Church... "He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord." - Psalm 147:19-20)
These questions are asked in the foolish belief that they "prove that a Christian should tithe," that is to say that a Christian must hand over ten percent of their income to a church or minister. They are asked, and the comments are made to fool the simple minded and the ignorant. They are used in the hope that the deceived Christian will not follow the example in Acts 17:11 which tells us that "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."
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We have never claimed that a person will end up in hell by tithing, yet such a question offers no proof that a Christian should be tithing, no proof that the New Testament includes a requirement to tithe. In regards to "is it a sin to tithe?" ...anything God has abolished should not be practiced and is a violation of God's word and therefore it is sin. Did Jesus preach against tithing? ...of course not; He didn't preach against sacrificing clean animals either; should that practice continue because Jesus did not preach against it? Obviously not!
Where did Jesus tell us to stop tithing? ...why would Jesus instruct a Christian to stop tithing when no scripture records Jesus instructing the Church to tithe in the first place? Matthew 23:23 records Jesus rebuking the scribes and Pharisees of the nation of Israel who Jesus truthfully called hypocrites! If Matthew 23:23 applies to the New Testament Church, then so does the remaining chapter which would refer to the Church as;
Hypocrites, burdening people down with heavy burdens, terribly egotistical, and are braggarts, closing the door to people who would seek to enter heaven, devour widows' houses and worse, making people twice the children of hell that the church is, are fools and blind, are blind guide, full of extortion and excess, are whited sepulchres, builder of tombs of the prophets, and graves of righteous, are serpents and a generation of vipers, full of hypocrisy and iniquity...etc. ERGO; READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER, stop taking scripture out of proper context as tithing teachers clearly do to deceive the foolish and unlearned!
They tell us "tithing was practiced before the law (before the Law of Moses) such as by Abraham, yet offer no proof that Abraham's singular tithe is an instruction to tithe to be found continued into the New Testament. They ignore that Abraham handed over the remaining of the spoils of war (less what his men took) to a pagan king? (see; Hebrews 7:4, Genesis 14:22-24). Why are you tithers who are basing your tithing on Abraham not handing over the remainder of your income to pagans keeping non for yourselves, regarding it not your property as Abraham did?
As noted above; tithers further tell us tithing doesn't have to be instructed in the New Testament because already told us to tithe in the Old Testament. The New Testament is a Covenant established by God (see; Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 9:16), therefore any requirement, command or promise for the saved Believer to follow must be clearly stated in the terms and conditions of the Covenant. No form of a requirement to tithe is to be found in the New Testament. Any requirement of any of form tithing has been cancelled by the New Testament, clearly stated in these scriptures;
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."
Acts 15:24 - "Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:"
Ephesians 2:15 - "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;"
2 Corinthians 3:13 - "And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:"
Additionally; there is no sculpture of any Apostle teaching the New Testament church to tithe anything to anyone. No Apostle taught tithing, rebuked a church for not tithing. No Apostle received a tithe, paid a tithe or instructed the church on how to tithe. The New Testament, AKA; the New Covenant is absolutely VOID of any command, outline of terms, examples or principles of tithing to be followed.
CONCLUSION
Reliance on such illogical and foolish questions and claims by tithers and tithing teachers listed above only leads to confusion, deception, false unbiblical practices and false doctrine. Such questions, comments and claims are clearly intended to fool the foolish and keep the simpleton ignorant of the truth by way of deception, or as God's word tells us in the scriptures;
Romans 16:18 - "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."
The word of God warns against foolish questions and comments;
1 Timothy 4:7 - "But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness."
We are instructed not to tolerate the questions and comments of fools;
Proverbs 26:4-5 - "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit."
We are, however, to answer a fool with the wisdom of God's word;
2 Timothy 3:16-17 - "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works."
As we mentioned above...
Lamentations 3:37 - "Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
When God has NOT commanded tithing to New Testament Believers, who are we to command it?...
Deuteronomy 12:32 - "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."
Proverbs 30:6 - "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."
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