Wouldn't be a waker upper if your church made you pay a tithing and kept track of your income?

Tithing was commanded by the LAW. Giving is voluntary from the HEART. THE APOSTLE PAUL VERSUS CHRISTIAN TITHING The Apostle Paul never tithed, never taught Gentiles to tithe, never collected tithes, and never accepted tithes.

Can anyone imagine what Paul would have said had someone come up to him and offered him $100 saying: "Here Paul, here is my payment according to the tithing law with regards to my thousand-dollar paycheck." I don’t know what his exact words would be, but I have studied the writings of Paul, and I can tell you what he would have said in principle: "Sir, MONEY is not a tithable commodity. Furthermore, tithes can be paid to the Levitic priests only, and I am not a Levite, I am from the Tribe of Benjamin.

Furthermore, as a believer in Jesus Christ, you are also freed from the law of Moses. Jesus Christ has taught us that, ‘FREELY you have received, FREELY give." One cannot give ‘freely’ that which is demanded by law.

I am sorry, but I cannot accept money that is given out of obligation to a law. Jesus has freed us from carnal ordinances, and whom Jesus has freed, ‘is FREE indeed.’" Now then, give that same $100 to any number of priests of Christendom, and one might receive this retort: "Well, if this $100 is your tithe, where is your offering?

Don’t you know that the tithe is commanded and demanded by law? You have only given me what is commanded by law of you to give. You have not really given me anything until you give me money in excess of your tithes" Well, what more can I say about that?

I wrote a blog post on this subject (well, reviewing a chapter of a book on the subject) a while back. Rather than repeating everything here, I'll just post the link. http://wp.me/p1bhiA-2r It covers it better than I could in this reply.

But the short answer is that the Christian tithe was developed over many years and is not substantiated by the NT nor by early church tradition. I can't post a verse proving this because it was never even discussed. The tithe was basically the national tax system of ancient Israel.

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