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Originally Posted by Tithesmeister
Brother, you mention tithes three times in these brief comments in reference to 1 Corinthians chapter nine. In my Bible the word tithe is not mentioned there at all.
Could you help me out with where you are seeing tithe in this chapter?
Is it the ox? Does ox mean tithe to you?
Which word is it that you are taking to mean tithe?
Because, I just don’t see tithe in this.
“Restricted to tithes?” I hardly think so. At least we agree on that.
How bout “Is it even talking about tithes?”
The answer to that is no. Paul is not EVEN talking about tithes here. If he were, he would have said so. Instead of carrying on about oxen and other things.
You seem to think that Paul was afraid to mention the word tithe. Do you believe Paul wrote Hebrews? Because Hebrews does mention tithes. What a coincidence! Hebrews was written to the people that WERE supposed to tithe, under the old covenant. Hmmm. I wonder why tithes is mentioned in a writing to the Hebrews, but never in the writings to the Gentiles (ie Corinthians and other letters to Gentiles).
Brother, I know you said you don’t believe that tithing is according to the law. And you don’t tithe, or receive tithes because of the law. So, is it just a coincidence that you are a pastor, and you also, for some reason receive tithes? Do any widows in your church also receive tithes? Not because of the law, of course, but just by coincidence?
How did that just happen to work out?
Do you do any teaching on tithing? At all?
If so, what do you teach?
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Why would Paul bring up the oxen? It says “thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth the corn”.
When Paul says, if I sow things that are spiritual is it some great thing that I reap your carnal things, what does that mean for us today?
Paul says those that minister about holy things live of the things in the temple. Again for us today what does that mean?
We can go round and round with this tithe debate, this group believes a Pastor has no right to tithe. This group believes a Pastor has every right.
Like I said before if the church is content for their Pastor to receive their tithe, who’s wrong? Are they not free to decide?
If the Pastor gets up and starts threatening them with tithe and places undo burdens on them for something that’s not Godly, God will judge them. I’ve seen it! Church’s that had many members, very wealthy are now down to a couple saints and the Pastor is no longer there. Imagine going to church with your family in a facility that can seat 400 and there is only 25 of you.
God is not mocked...
Maybe learn Wisdom, if the church is content with their Pastor as full time and they pay him tithe, wage, salary, the gospel is being preached. If your Pastor isn’t a full time minister and doesn’t receive any tithe, wage, or salary the gospel is still being preached.
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