My Pastor Preach on Tithing - Faulty Methodology

[jediwill83]

Beetus

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Jito463

You people have it all wrong, my world-famous (or it could be, anyway) Coca-Cola cake is where it's truly at.

We have a dish called Coca-Cola chicken, but cake?

Please explain

[Jito463]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

We have a dish called Coca-Cola chicken, but cake?

Please explain

Essentially, it's a chocolate cake with Coca-Cola in it (a local restaurant called Fireworks makes a cola cake, but they use the inferior Pepsi in it ). I thought I'd posted the recipe once before, but I can't find it right now. I'll post it when I get home tonight.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Jito463

Essentially, it's a chocolate cake with Coca-Cola in it (a local restaurant called Fireworks makes a cola cake, but they use the inferior Pepsi in it ). I thought I'd posted the recipe once before, but I can't find it right now. I'll post it when I get home tonight.

Post that recipe, please.

Pepsi?

I thought they went out of business?

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Don't muzzle the ox that treads the corn.

So, if your preacher is treading your corn share that corn with the preacher.

Galatians 6:6

What was the ox grinding Benny? I can give food items and be in the proper context. BUT, I give filthy lucre instead.

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Rudy

What was the ox grinding Benny? I can give food items and be in the proper context. BUT, I give filthy lucre instead.

It depends upon culture.

...(people get touchy when it comes to money, phew!!)

I give tithes and have never worried about whether or not it was crops from the land instead of cash. lol

God loves a cheerful giver, no matter what the percentage is or even if it's done or not done in percentages.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Rudy

What was the ox grinding Benny? I can give food items and be in the proper context. BUT, I give filthy lucre instead.

You would not be giving food, you would be giving wheat kernels. You would then take your pastor and tie him up to an apparatus used to grind wheat kernels to meal. You would also make sure that your pastor could graze as he turned the grinding wheel. So, let move up the chapter and see how really stupid this can get. 1 Corinthians 9:7 states does a soldier ever serve in the army at his own expense? Does anyone plant a vineyard and not eat the grapes? Does anyone take care of a flock and not drink milk from the sheep?

So, let's see, grapes, milk produced from YOUR females, and what? Expenses earned from battle? OK, so we have grapes, colostrum, wheat kernels and military pay.

Do you give any of the above?

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

You would not be giving food, you would be giving wheat kernels. You would then take your pastor and tie him up to an apparatus used to grind wheat kernels to meal. You would also make sure that your pastor could graze as he turned the grinding wheel. So, let move up the chapter and see how really stupid this can get. 1 Corinthians 9:7 states does a soldier ever serve in the army at his own expense? Does anyone plant a vineyard and not eat the grapes? Does anyone take care of a flock and not drink milk from the sheep?

So, let's see, grapes, milk produced from YOUR females, and what? Expenses earned from battle? OK, so we have grapes, colostrum, wheat kernels and military pay.

Do you give any of the above?

There is no I repeat NO command to tithe filthy lucre. There was a time pastors were glad to get food. Now they twist scripture and threatened to get filthy lucre from the people.

Not everyone tithed benny.

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by mfblume

It depends upon culture.

...(people get touchy when it comes to money, phew!!)

I give tithes and have never worried about whether or not it was crops from the land instead of cash. lol

God loves a cheerful giver, no matter what the percentage is or even if it's done or not done in percentages.

Tithing food was a command under the the Law. Not cultural.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Rudy

There is no I repeat NO command to tithe filthy lucre. There was a time pastors were glad to get food. Now they twist scripture and threatened to get filthy lucre from the people.

Not everyone tithed benny.

Rudy, do you realize that you are currently repeating a mantra?

Rudy, please don't get me wrong. Just take a deep breath.

The above post you are using to reply to me is an emotional statement.

1) you state..NO, no commands to give, and what the preacher is getting is dirty money. Bad, bad, bad minister if he knows that taking money is wrong but does it anyway. Yet, even if the guy doesn't know it is still bad, and it is still dirty money? Religion is so painfully filled with irony.

2) Once upon a time pastor were happy to get groceries? With the reference to time past, should we now accept they are currently not glad?

3) Oh thank God for the group called "THEY"

4) It seems as if this "THEY" group are knowingly twisting scripture to become get dirty money from the people?

Rudy, dirty money is just that, getting money which you don't deserve. It is like people who rip off welfare. They don't get a marriage license so they can rob benefits from local, state, and federal governments. They cheat on taxes, they lie to medicaid, and other social works in order to get more funds. Dirty money or as you so King Jamesly put it "filthy lucre" is taking funds which weren't deserved. Paul said if you don't work you don't eat. But was that meant for all the apostles? No, because there were ministers who gave themselves over to research and study of the word and had deacons to serve tables. Paul didn't make allowances for hunting and golfing to be part of those expenses.

So, did you share your disdain for tithing with other you go to church with?