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This verse in no way allows you to give when you feel like giving or to give the amount you think is fair. I have purposed in my heart to give 10% and more when I can, that is based on scripture. I know some who have purposed 20% and even more of their increase. In 9:6 we see that if we sow...

If you want to give when it's convenient for you to give, that's you, not me. I give a minimum of 10% of everything I receive to my local church and gifts as I can above that. This junk of us deciding what an when we give is not the will of God. It's departing from the scripture.

So the born-again Christian gives to support the local church when he chooses to? That is robbing God! To suggest that tithing to support the church is keeping the Law is ridiculous!

LOL, looks like some want an excuse to tithe when it's convenient.

The way I see it God introduced the tithe with Abraham and then Jacob and then in the Law of Moses. Each time more understanding was given. Under Law the tithes were brought to the Levites and it seems they were to be supported by these tithes of the people and as Priests they also distributed...

I encourage you to remember that robbing God in tithes and offerings carries a curse.

Is it ok then to give nothing if it is your choice because your bills take all of your money? Is that acceptable with God? That is the attitude many will take when it's left to them what to give instead of what God asks.

Abraham and Jacob paid a tithe (a tenth) before the Law, Gen. 14:20/28:22, it carried over into the Law and many will say there is no reason why it shouldn't carry over after the Law. I've heard preachers say that we are the sons and daughters of Abraham and Jacob by faith in Christ and the...

John was a symbol of the rapture taking place. No need to get into this again, we see it the way we see it. Nothing will change that.

I don't know that these men were in their glorified bodies, I think they were. If the pre-trib view is correct, the rapture has taken place the instant John is called to heaven in his vision. That would mean all the saints in heaven at the time of John's vision were glorified.

God demands the blood of man for his sin. That is how serious it is with God. Lev. 17:11 "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." This is why Christ...

John makes this mistake twice, in 19:10 and 22:8. He did this after having seen Christ and fell at His feet as dead. No doubt the two were in like appearance to Christ. I believe they are exactly what they claim to be "fellow servants" who were men and now are in their glorified bodies...

I'm not much on the tongues thing, but Jimmy Swaggart makes a good case for it in scripture, I think the most convincing I have ever seen. It would be very difficult to argue with him that tongues will cease before the resurrection.

If you believe the scripture as you say, how do you explain Isaiah 45:5-6? "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the...

That is true! John 10:32 "Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" There is no doubt that here Jesus is speaking of the miracles he has performed! Titus 3:8 "This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou...

The scripture doesn't tell us, so it would be speculation as to the reason. I think the point of this and what God wants us to know are the results of this curse. The scripture does shed light on the results of this curse, and that is what we are to glean from this. IMO.

Jesus was speaking directly to the future apostles when He said in John 14:12, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." "He that believeth on me" is speaking of all...

I would add to this that Paul was light years ahead of James and Peter in the knowledge of the New Covenant. James and Peter knew the Gentiles had been granted salvation, but they had not been given the entire meaning of the New Covenant as Paul had received in his revelation from Christ. I...

Paul was an outcast in the minds of the circumcision (the Jews), personally I blame this on James as he was the head pastor of the Jerusalem church. He could have taken this burden off of Paul, but he didn't. Peter was caught in the middle, understanding the saved Gentiles were not held to the...

I don't remember Paul mentioning any miracles (per se) as a part of the Gospel that he preached in 1 Cor. 15:1-11 to the Corinthian Church. Preaching a false Gospel is a very serious accusation, to claim this by the fact of miracles not being present is not scriptural. It seems to me there are...