Tithes

[Sean]

Point #5: No Minimum Principle: Tithing was not a Minimum Requirement from All Israelites. (Chapter 1)

The false teaching is that everybody was required to begin their giving level at ten per cent.

Only those Israelites who earned a livelihood from farming and herding inside holy Israel were required to tithe under the Mosaic Law. Their increase came from God’s hand. Those whose increase came from their own crafts and skills were not required to tithe products and money.

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[Sean]

Modern Tithing is Based on Many False Assumptions

One major denomination’s statement on stewardship is typical. “Tithing is the minimum biblical standard and the beginning point which God has established that must not be replaced or compromised by any other standard.” It adds that the tithe is from gross income which is due to the church before taxes.

This essay contrasts the false teachings used to support tithing with God’s Word. (Book chapters in parenthesis.)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...SwxhDKtuZKUoZA

[Sean]

Point #7: Levitical Tithe-Recipients Could Not Own Land. (Chapter 6)

The false assumption today is that preachers can both receive tithes and also own land.

In exchange for receiving tithes, both Levites and priests forfeited all rights to permanent land inheritance inside Israel (Num 18:20-26; Deu 12:12; 14:27, 29; 18:1, 2; Josh 13:14, 33; 14:3; 18:7; Eze 44:28).


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[Sean]

Point #9: First-Fruits: First-fruits are Not the Same as Tithes. (Chapter 1)

The false assumption is that tithes are first-fruits.

The first-fruit was a very small token amount of the first crop harvest and the first-born was the first offspring of animals.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...SwxhDKtuZKUoZA

[Sean]

Point #14: Malachi: Malachi 3 is the Most Abused Tithing Text in the Bible. (Ch. 13a, 13b)

The false teaching about tithes from Malachi 3 ignores important Bible facts.

A. Context: Malachi is Old Covenant and is never quoted in the New Covenant to validate tithing (Lev 27:34; Neh 10:28-29; Mal 3:7; 4:4).

B. Context: In Malachi 3:10-11 tithes are still only food 1000 years after Leviticus 27.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...SwxhDKtuZKUoZA

[Sean]

Yet, these "truth teachers" of our oneness movement stick with their mandatory tithe story, no matter what.

What a bummer.

[Sean]

D. Priest-Thieves: Beginning in 1:6 “you” in Malachi always refers to the dishonest priests and not the people (also 2:1-10; 2:13 to 3:1-5): “Even this whole nation of you—priests” (3:9).
In 1:13-14 the priests had stolen tithed animals vowed to God. In Nehemiah 13:5-10 priests had stolen the Levites’ portion of the tithe. God’s curses on the priests are ignored by most tithe-teachers (1:14; 2:2 and 3:2-4).

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...SwxhDKtuZKUoZA

[good samaritan]

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

The law reveals our need for Jesus. We have all come short so therefore we need Christ. Which btw tithing preceded the law. The idea that we just walk in the Spirit without any outside governing is not biblical.

A righteous man will do the right thing without a mandatory law or minimum. That does not mean that you don't teach people on their journey. We are bound to the Spirit and the Spirit leads to give and to dwell peaceably.

Good luck on that one.

[Sean]

Point #16: Priesthood Of Believers: Old Covenant Priests were Replaced by All-Believer-Priests. (Ch. 20, 21)

The false teaching is that New Covenant elders and pastors are continuing where the Old Covenant priests left off and are due the tithe.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...SwxhDKtuZKUoZA

[Sean]

Originally Posted by good samaritan

Good luck on that one.

It is more scriptural to get sinners to tithe, than saints to tithe.