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1 | Can you please explain tithing? | Deut 14:1 | ngkh | 163351 | ||
Hi bro, I would rather think it this way. Jesus said to love your neighbour as you would love yourself and in Mat 25:40 And the King will answer and say to them, Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. Now if I am going to bless someone in need, what is wrong in giving tithes to the church. Do I need to be commanded by Christ to give to the needy? No. I would think as being a christian I will do all these without asking for justification nor recognition. Justification has nothing to do with tithes. If you believe so, then your are subjecting yourself to the law by such thought . I am giving tithes not because I want justification. I am giving because I love the church and it needs funds to function so that it may bless others as well especially non believers. To me, I believe the 10 percent is just a ball park figure remembering what Paul had said 2Cor 8:12 12 For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have. I will give (not pay) whatever I can afford. Like I said, its between me and the Lord and no one else. I do not even put my name on the cheque when I handed the tithe to the church so even my pastor does not know I gave. Not necessary. |
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2 | Can you please explain tithing? | Deut 14:1 | jlpangilinan | 163392 | ||
I dont know if I can calll you Brother or Sister. You are right I am a brother. Giving without no one required is not a tithe, its love offering, my arguement is that if someone required someone to give such as ten percent, it will go back to law. If someone willing to give half or whole of his earning, no problem with that it is acceptable to God. 2Co 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. The very example of love offering as we all know is the widow. Lu 21:2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. Lu 21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For a clarification, I am not against giving, just against the tithe as a requirements, because really it is part of the law, and apostle paul said, it will not justify us. Ac 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. By the way I am amazed of the way you give love offering. God bless, |
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3 | Can you please explain tithing? | Deut 14:1 | ngkh | 163437 | ||
Like I said, I don't tithe to be justified just as you say that my giving is a love offering and not tithe. But I wonder, does the difference really matter? Tithe or giving. Is it so important that my contribution must be classified either as tithe or giving? So if I consider the contibution as tithe, then I'm wrong because its the law and I won't be justified but if I say this is an offering , then I am justified? I fail to see the the reason for highlighting justification and the law - to tithe or give an offering. Is God going to say that oh, this is your tithe and that is your offering? Let's examine our own hearts. Have we given? Not classified as tithe but offering or do we hide behind this justification and law issue to satisfy ourselves NOT to give. To me I do not care two hoots what my contribution be called. But I suppose, if one really seek to use tithe as a compelling manner to give to the church, then I will not support that teaching. Neither have my Pastors taught this. Its always freewill. |
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