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Originally Posted by Hoffman
You are correct sir/ma’am. q
The doctrine of giving tithe to a Pastor is simply unbiblical. It makes me sick when I see a preacher collect tithe, and use it for his personal gain, while there may be some saints in the church struggling.
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It is sir.
A little trivia. The term filthy lucre occurs five times in the Bible. Lucre is of course money or profit. Filthy is filthy, or shameful. So we have an implied meaning of shameful profit.
In each occurrence that I will list below, the context is leadership of the church doing so for profit. There is NO other mention of filthy lucre in the KJV Bible other than these five.
1Tim.3
[3] Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
[8] Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Tit.1
[7] For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
[11]
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
1Pet.5
[2] Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
In reference to the bold passage, a bishop teaching a false doctrine (tithing) for what reason? The obvious answer is filthy lucre.
Good God from Zion . . .
Indeed.
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