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Originally Posted by good samaritan
When you do anything as unto the Lord. Visit the sick, buy someone groceries, give offerings that is an act precedented on faith. I am not suggesting that we give to receive, but we do it to follow his teaching. I am simply saying that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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That was not the context of your original words "God honors faith", but I won't argue that. They are your words, and you appear to be retracting them.
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Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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That verse is not in the context of giving, but finding God himself.
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Therefore, my reason for saying God honors faith. I was not making the statement exclusively about tithing, but about giving generally. Again, if you are thinking that I have an agenda, say so that way we can discuss. I don’t know what “all” tithe teachers have in mind when they say God honors faith. I just know I meant it in general.
Hebrews 11:6 is how I define faith. James says faith without works is dead. So by interpretation, when my faith in Jesus Christ is carried out, it will be rewarded.
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When people give, and then they end up receiving from somewhere else which appear to be a miracle, and you or tithing teachers say "God honors faith", they are speaking clearly of God giving back because the tither gave expecting to receive it back somehow. That's prosperity doctrine my friend, whether you want to recognize it or not.
I do not think you have an agenda, just trying to show you the error you are in, not only regarding tithing but also regarding giving "in faith" (again, not in faith as in doctrine or believer of Christ, but as in "God will bless me back financially").