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Originally Posted by coksiw

And that's how you plan to dismiss my words. Why don't you prove it please?



Tithing teachers use mainly the OT to support tithing of all income in the NT, and that's the discussion at hand. Now you are trying to abstract it out to say tithing teachers are not doing that but instead say that people want to give 1/10 just because is cool? Aren't you tithing teacher using the OT to prove your principle? Don't you see that our point is the gross miss application of the OT tithing (pre or post Moses) to the NT, and how you have to come up with some illegitimate 1/10 principle application to then bring the tithing of all income to the NT? Are you greater than the apostles that taught and talked a lot about money but never found OT tithing applicable in any ways to the NT saints?



If the text is in a context giving to support the apostles, so what? the apostle Paul decided to switch topics to talk about the support to Jerusalem 7 chapters later. What's your point?

I teach that people can give tithes and I don't use the Old Testament to prove it or support it. I just say that they gave tithes back then and you can do that today as well. I don't go into anything about people being cursed if they don't do it like the law did. I don't go into anything about what exactly was tithes in the old testament. I just use it to say that it's a good example of how you can give. So don't put words in my mouth. The way you described it, how that people can give a tenth and it's cool to do so, is exactly how I do it. I don't bring any legalities of Law and don't use the law to prove it or anything like that. Sacrifice is in the Old Testament too, and we all believe we need to sacrifice today as well. But we don't sacrifice in exactly the precise way that they did in the old testament. But we still use the principle of sacrifice. That's the issue, and that's why I say you're twisting what I'm saying because I never said anything about using the law to prove giving of tithes.