Should a Christian tithe, what does the Bible say

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

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

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

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

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.

i think he may be stressing the importance of recognizing that our "giving" is not "tithing" ? -- using the wrong language in these conversations can be dangerously misleading.
similarly sunday is not "Christian sabbath" -- not that we are bound in any similar way to ritually keep the sabbath day, but we should not talk about it as though the day is changed. we should recognize the truth about the difference between the 8th and 7th day and why we do what we do in the same way that we should recognize the difference between our giving and the tithes required of Israel under the Law.


i agree with what he said but i wasn't sure why he was saying it in response to what you said, either

Whoops... I misread your post. My humble apologies.

I can't believe what I'm reading here, so many greedy "Christians" greed is a grievous sin.
If you don't give to God, you are cursed. God hates greed, we saw what happened to that greedy man and his wife who sold their house and held back some of the proceeds. God killed both of them and we have people here saying it's not important to give anything to God.
I can't believe how blind and deceived so called Christians have become in this wicked generation. What are they doing to say to Jesus when He tells them to go to hell, I never knew you.
There are so many lovers of money here, I never expected to see this from Christians. Especially after all the warnings about the love of money in the Bible, we are talking about the root of all kinds of evil and everyone is defending their god of mammon.

A lot of adults just don't know to save money now days. We don't get cash on pay day and have to hang on to it 'till more comes in. Now we have credit which allows us to spend more than we make. Many can't see how illogical and immoral the system is, so they never learned to put money aside. It may be a sin to be so irresponsible. Some folks just don't know how.

It is certainly not a sign of spiritual growth, and I'm sure many feel bad about it..There it is the human [sin] element, they can't help it. Should we keep them out of church? NO!

Have you ever gotten hungry at work Danny but you were broke? You had mishandled your money and you felt bad about it, not just because you were hungry but because you felt foolish. People go to church feeling like every week.

You dont think that unbelievers are capable of doing good works ?
my hubby is an unbeliever and he does plenty of good works , helps people , loves his family , donates to charities , helps our neighbours etc etc

Thats why we should be careful about pointing fingers and fruit inspecting , you never know for sure

oh and tithing is an Old Covenant command , New Covenant believers are to give generously as others have said

money was never a part of the Law of Moses

When I joined a Church I started giving even though i didn't have much to give. I always managed to get enough money together to buy my drugs, so it wouldn't be right if I didn't make the same effort to give to the Lord.

I'm sorry to have to burst your bubble but your hubbies best works are as filthy rags in Gods sight. God is no respecter of persons, He can only love those who are in Christ. The rest cannot please God in any way no matter how "good" their works are. Gods wrath abides on them

• to tithe Biblically, any part of what is required of us having to do with נֶ֤פֶשׁ חַיָּה֙ - "living souls" - 'living creatures' in KJV - cannot be paid with money.

I found this video very helpful explaining how tithing does not apply to the church. It is very visual, hope it helps.

Thanks for the encouragement.

I would like your opinion on an issue I'm facing regrading giving to the Church. I'm going to inherit a large sum of money after the sale of a relatives estate who recently passed away and I'm one of the beneficiaries in his will. Should I give my Church 10% of the money I receive or is tithing only meant to be deducted form your salary.

I would really like to know what Jesus would advise me to do, I have prayed about it but I'm still not sure what God wants me to do. I will continue to pray about it, but I would value your opinion because I have read a lot of your posts and I do respect your opinion on many things.

You can use the Bible to say whatever you want it to say. This guy has his opinion on what it all means and others have their opinion and there are so many different opinions that it leaves a person confused.

The only thing left to do is obey what God puts on your heart, but you must be a saved person to even know what Gods will for you. So it becomes something between you and God, and nobody else should know how much you give.

I personally believe tithing is just a basic standard, we should give more than just 10% since God gave us everything we have we should give back generously to Him. I don't like folks here saying that my money is going to my pastor, that's false. My money goes to the Lord and the Lord gives some to my pastor so he can live a decent life.

The pastor is appointed by God to shepherd us sheep, he knows Gods word better than all of these sheep here who are self appointed authorities on the Bible. God only reveal the truth of the Bible to certain people and He deliberately confuses others who think they are smart.

Our pastor encourages all of us to study our Bible to make sure that what he preaches is exactly what the Bible says. But at the end of the day, we are the sheep and He is the shepherd, that's the way God has ordained the NT Church. We need to be careful of people who make themselves some kind of authority on scripture, God only gives that privileged to those who serve as shepherds.

My pastor told me that my knowledge of the scriptures has nothing to do with my salvation, he said you don't need to know any scripture to be saved. If you believe as the thief on the cross did, you are saved. He didn't know the Bible, he had simple faith which God gave him as a gift.

Satan and His Demons know the scriptures better than anyone here, but it does them no good. It actually brings them more damnation, just as it does to those who know the Bible yet are not true people of God.

Everything we receive is God's to begin with and we are only asked to give back what we feel compelled to in our hearts. If you want to give 10% good if you don't want to, also good. Will you do more for God with that money than someone else that you give it to? If you want to give 10% to, say The Salvation Army, you are doing as much good with it as the church will. If you want to spend it on yourself God wants you to do that also. It is a show to him of your faith, or lack of faith, in him. I personally hope you show great faith. If you give to an organization, please be sure that it discusses Christian values with those it helps.