Should a Christian tithe, what does the Bible say

I did not immediately block you...I do not use that feature but made an exception

I guess I was wrong that you might understand what I was saying

I stand corrected and thanks for letting me know

folks are no longer discussing in this thread though

and the recipient is not up to the discussion

a little discretion would go a long way

Danny I have a question for you if you feel like answering it. if not, that's fine too

why did you decide to write this thread on tithing?

Jesus tells us we must render to Caesar what belongs to him, and God what is His (Matthew 22:21). My question is, are we justified if we are is unfaithful with money, respecting honesty and giving to God? Are we saved?

Jesus says, "If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches (Luke 16:11 NKJV)?

As I have stated before:

Christians are tested with the least in the Kingdom of God which is money.
Considering what Jesus has said here (Luke 16:9-13 NKJV), I think it would be difficult to overstate the significance of this down to earth, practical teaching, that applies to everyone. If a person cannot be trusted with money, and in any capacity, Jesus plainly says, he cannot be trusted with Salvation, i.e., "true riches." In view of the seriousness of what is being said, we would do well to heed carefully.

In these passages (Luke 16:9-13), Jesus is saying that irrespective of how loudly and how often we profess our Godliness, if it does not show up in our practical, every day living, and especially in the matters of money, and our responsibility toward others, our profession is vain. This statement is plain and clear, if we are unfaithful in these things. "Who will commit to our trust the true riches?"

JSM

Does Christ rebuke the devourer if the Believer in Christ doesn't tithe?
Can a Christian test God in the New Testament? If so how?
Can a Christian live in the open windows of Heaven if they don't tithe?

Please post your scripture to support(s) your statement.

Danny can answer for himself, but I think it came from here:

https://christianchat.com/threads/w...-a-big-expensive-building.177895/post-3647104

verse
1. Giving to caesar whats his = paying taxes. (tithe means paying 10%... here in the us we pay 15-40% depending on the income.... i pay 25% as a single man which is even less than what i share or donate)

verse
2. speaking of those who live to feed their own love of money -> their heart desires money and not the truth

nothing to do with going from "saved" to "unsaved"
everything to do with a specific type of fallen man


my point.....
what you do with your money is not what determines where you are in Christ



though if you are indeed in Christ

you wouldnt love money and riches more than Him -> much more likely to use it for good as opposed to greed when you can



but
yeah
a child of God is saved even if he doesnt "tithe" (give 10%)

well sure he can...

but I'm a little blond at the moment

does he attend echurch or does he have a 'builder' pastor who really wanted to be a engineer?

none of the above and I'm out...oh wait...I get 3 chances

??????

or a sailor pastor who needs a new boat?

or another BMW?

it sounded to me like he has a pastor who's running a business, not a church.
trying to shame people's wallets out of their pants instead of finding Christ in the scripture and teaching what he's found.

'applicational sermonizing' stinks, to my nose. i get all critical and suspicious when i hear it.

throw chairs; run!

might be the case

I have twice attended a church where a building project is actually what was on the mind of the man up front

one of them, was actually replaced but then I guess people felt bad and they brought him back...I was already gone

check for exit signs before being seated

i should explain that i'm not ((necessarily)) suggesting you throw your chair at the dais or the ushers.

the sight and sound of flying ((and landing)) chairs is meant to be a diversion to help give you a few extra steps towards the door befor anyone can try and stop you

do you know that building projects are actually tax shelters. In order to keep a nonprofit tax status they build something. Unfortunately it also makes for more opertunity to skim church funds. I think it's common.

Irrelevant codswollop.

I never claimed anything on that subject. Your tirade is again irrelevant.

I strongly encouraged him to do it because he was espousing tithing in another thread. I wanted to avoid filling that thread with a separate subject.

Try posting something relevant... from the New Testament. You're posting paraphrases from Malachi, which is Old Testament, under the Law. Christians aren't under the Law.

how did money get into the Kingdom of God?

the God i know offers bread and wine without price. refined gold, white raiment and eyesalve without money.
the "tithing" i have read of doesn't have anything to do with mammon: it was about produce and livestock.

McGee, where do you get that cr*p? Certainly not from the Bible!

Tithing is an Old Covenant requirement of Israelites, not a New Covenant requirement of Christians. Christians are encouraged to give generously, but that is not tithing.

At the council in Acts 15 (and Galatians), gentile Christian are given four things to continue doing. Tithing is not one of them.

Please don't make the common mistake of assuming that "tithing" is synonymous with "giving". It isn't, and never was, biblically speaking.

what are you even talking about?
where did i say it was?

i think youre confused dino
i know i am by your post

I actually did go back in that thread and found where you said that and also where you thanked him for doing so in this one