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1 | Kill your brother and drink strong drink | Bible general Archive 4 | petedavis6263 | 219171 | ||
Hello to all, I am new to bible study. I am reading the bible from the beginning and now I have a question as I am going through Deuteronomy, chapters 10-14. Can anybody help? Here is the scenario: Just imagine for a minute, that you are an Israelite living during the time of Deuteronomy. You really love God and his messenger, Moses. Not long after the Ten Commandments (Deut 10) were given, Moses continued to issue God's statutes and laws along with severe warnings against disobedience. You are concerned as anyone would be for fear of making a mistake. However, God promises many blessings (Deut 11), all you need to do is earnestly obey His commandments, judgments and statutes. God warns you (Deut 12:32), "Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it." God is not messing around. He even commands you to kill your brother or any other family member if they try to entice you away from Him (Deut 13:10). God issues a list of clean and unclean foods (Deut 14:2-21), for you are a holy people chosen to be a special treasure above all other people on the face of this earth. God gives specific instructions regarding the payment of tithe and in certain instances when the tithe cannot be carried to the place where God had chosen, you are instructed to sell the tithe and use the money to buy whatever your soul lusteth after (Deut 14:22-26). You may buy oxen, sheep, wine, or strong drink and enjoy it all before the Lord, you and your family. This is what the Lord hath commanded. Now just imagine that you never died and you are still living in the year 2008, some 3,500 years later. Just imagine that you just met up with a Seventh-day Adventist minister who tells you the Ten Commandments are still in force and the list of clean/unclean foods is still valid, however, God's command to kill your brother, His command to use your tithe money to buy meat, wine and strong drink so that you can enjoy them with your family, well that's just out of the question. God was wrong to mislead you. He really didn't realize how bad it would be to kill family members nor did He realize how much trouble fermented drinks were going to be in these modern times. And most of all, the church needs your tithe money. Here's the question, If you are to disregard what God says about killing your brother and what God says about using tithe money to buy whatever your soul lusteth after, how are you going to obey Deut 12:32, which God explicitly commands to change nothing? Thoroughly stumped, Pete |
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2 | Kill your brother and drink strong drink | Bible general Archive 4 | thane | 219172 | ||
In regard to tithing, maybe it would be less of a mystery if we got the joke in Matt 23:23. Slightly bent, some scribes and Pharisees went through the otherwise unnecessary effort of raising spices chiefly for an opportunity to owe and pay tithes/taxes which, in turn, gave them the opportunity to boast about paying tithes. Broadly, they were rich city-dwellers whose only connections with agriculture were the few plants they could grow on a patio or windowsill. As a secondary punchline, they chose to grow foolproof spices. Anyone who has suffered from escapee/invader mint in their garden knows it grows like a weed, and the other spices listed are equally easy to grow. This next note relies on the majority translation of the word(s) read as "should have done." If tithing is something Pharisees should have done, rather than should do, we have a strong indication that a change in laws was in the offing. Abraham's tithe (Heb 7) came from the spoils of war and may have been the price of armistice. Deuteronomy 12:1, 5-6, 17-18 and 14:22-29 pertain to what Jesus would have intended by "tithe." The only people from whom the Levites collected tithes were landowners who both raised and harvested an edible, kosher crop or raised livestock. (In a dark area of the Word, we have to guess if passing under the rod involves only those kosher animals which could be branded or only those which were born by natural delivery.) Food was always the medium for the tithe. We have a clear indication that to relate any believer's tithe to money and monetary income is a add to Scriptures and forbidden. As proof, if a tithe was converted to silver/cash for the purpose of a long trip, it had to be returned to food form near the destination. |
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