Tithing

[society]

According to the holy bible tithing is a spiritual law encouraging one to give a portion of their earned income. Practicing this habit helps one find abundance, fulfillment, and gratitude in their everyday lives.

When a person tithes, the universe that works under the spiritual law of tithing says - 'if you have that much to give, then you are open to receive more'. As we fulfill our part of the covenant by giving, then God fulfills his part by continually blessing us.

What is your opinion on tithing?

[mibn2cweus]

GaryArnold
birdie1971 //because they can no longer morally justify a position...//

They don't change what the Bible says because they can no longer morally justify a position. They change it because they don't believe they can financially afford to teach it the way it's in the scriptures.

I'm done on this forum as it is plain to see I am debating many who have no clue as to what the scriptures really say. They think they are experts, but they actually know very little - just enough to be dangerous.

I am used to debating pastors and Bible scholars who have studied the scriptures many, many, years. At least they give scripture to back up their beliefs instead of the most ridiculous arguments I have ever seen (which are on this forum). This forum is nothing but the blind leading the blind, each one think they are a scholar. Never seen so much ignorance on one forum before.

No point me sticking around here. I am wasting my time here. Most are not hear to learn, but to merely promote their agenda. I am a teacher and have thousands and thousands of those who want to learn this topic that have downloaded by book. There are teachers in the US, Australia, Canada, and East Africa that I know of using my material to teach from. I prefer teaching where there is a receptive audience rather than a bunch of ignorant know-it-alls.
02:55 Thu 06th Jun 2013

Did I just see him wipe his feet on our doormat on the way out?

[naomi24]

//Most are not hear[sic] to learn, but to merely promote their agenda.//

Oh, the irony. :o)

[jomifl]

Don't get too reliant on the NT Gary, if history follows it's normal course then within the next couple of centuries there will be a new word of god (not actually written by god but by a ghost writer) so you will be cast out of heaven for having followed the wrong scriptures. If that sound silly then you should read what you have written so far.

[naomi24]

GaryArnold, //Most are not hear[sic] to learn,....//

If you are still around, it's just a thought, but why would you think that anyone here wants to learn from you?

[birdie1971]

GaryArnold [GA] - “... They don't change what the Bible says because they can no longer morally justify a position. They change it because they don't believe they can financially afford to teach it the way it's in the scriptures...”

Congratulations for completely missing the point! The problem is not WHY 'they' change what the Bible says, it's the fact that 'they' CAN and DO change it. If the holy scriptures CAN be changed, altered and amended then it cannot be what it claims to be.


GA - “... I'm done on this forum as it is plain to see I am debating many who have no clue as to what the scriptures really say...”

We know what the scriptures say – we can all read. The problem you have is that you're looking at the scriptures through the lens of a believer. You seem unable to see the absurdity in the scriptures and therefore when you encounter atheists and others who can see the Biblical scriptures for what they really are, you accuse them of having 'no clue'. It's a disgraceful argument and one I have heard many, many times before by people just like you.


GA - “... I am used to debating pastors and Bible scholars who have studied the scriptures many, many, years...”

And that's precisely why you don't like it here. The people you're used to dealing with are just as blinkered and deluded as yourself when it comes to religion in general and the scriptures specifically. You've now come face to face with atheism and rationalism and you've beat a hasty retreat because you know that your usual empty arguments simply don't wash.


GA - “... At least they give scripture to back up their beliefs instead of the most ridiculous arguments I have ever seen...”

None of the arguments you have been presented with are 'ridiculous'. They're simply coming from a direction that you've never previously encountered. You're now dismissing those argument as being ludicrous. Spoken like a true bigot.


GA - “... Most are not hear to learn, but to merely promote their agenda. I am a teacher and have thousands and thousands of those who want to learn this topic that have downloaded by [sic] book... I prefer teaching where there is a receptive audience rather than a bunch of ignorant know-it-alls...”

By which you mean that you prefer lecturing to people who never ask any fundamental questions about your or their beliefs. You accuse those who oppose your views as 'know-it-alls'. Is the irony lost on you? Pot, kettle and black my friend.

[FredPuli43]

GA, I notice, didn't deign to answer the question of whether he accepted that different sects and branches of Christianity exist and, therefore, whether he accepted that they had different readings of the same text. How then was his reading the right one?

[naomi24]

Fred, he seems to have hopped it. Par for the course.