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If you do not sacrifice your sin offering at the entrance to the temple, you are violating the law. If you do not appear at the temple for the day of atonement, you are violating the law. If you do not stone your neighbours who are committing adultery, you are violating the law. If you collect...

Mandatory submission of resources is not generosity. Using the term "tithing" only confuses people who don't read the text for themselves.

No; Abraham gave Melchizedek one tenth of the war spoils. Read the text more carefully. No; its first purpose was to provide food for the Levites. Read the text more carefully. No, Jesus did not teach any such thing. Read the text more carefully, and don't inject things into the text that...

What Scripture tells you that... or anything remotely like it? You quoted it yourself up the page: the law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, not the standard by which we are measured after we embrace Him.

Seriously. You just demonstrated that you can't read other's hearts. You completely misread what I wrote. I did not judge your heart motivations at all. I simply stated what is likely and why.

According to the testimony of fallen human nature and well-established human history, I would say so, yes. There are no perfect human judges, and you cannot know another's heart or motivations.

You really should do your homework before you embarrass yourself. Jesus could not give donated money to the poor and consider it a "tithe". Firstly, the tithe was not payable on donated money (if you think it is, find it in the Law!); and secondly, the tithe was to be given to the Levites, who...

Hello and welcome, Roze... Sorry to hear about your husband. My Dad has dementia too. It's not pleasant for family members. May the Lord give you strength and peace. :)

I'm not new either... Welcome (back?) and hello from Southern Canada. :)

"The tithe that Jesus paid"... which verse is that, exactly? There isn't one. As for giving to the poor, you're ignoring context on that verse as well.

Now you're getting silly. Jesus didn't change the Law; He fulfilled it.

It is specific to the sons of Jacob, who constitute ancient Israel. It is not written to Christians. Christians are never referred to as 'sons of Jacob'.

While there is a shortage of kindness (I'm guilty at times), by judging other people without knowing their hearts, you would likely soon be tossing people out who were not being unkind, but whose posts you misinterpreted.

The Law does not allow for non-payment of tithes if the priests are wicked. However, the Law also does not require tithes on money received as personal support or as gifts; it was only payable on agricultural products.

Really? What about this part: Malachi 3:6 For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, the sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.

Which was never discussed as such in the New Testament. You're grasping at straws, and you have no sound biblical support for your position. Tithing is no more part of the new covenant than the stoning of adulterers, the exclusion of lepers, or the wholesale slaughter of rams and bulls. The Law...

Here's the passage from Malachi: “Would anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and [j]offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you! 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be...

Jesus reiterated most of the commandments. Tithing was never one of the commandments, and justification by faith was never part of the Law.

The Law was discontinued at the cross; that’s God’s doing, not mine. Any blessings you receive from God are on the basis of faith, not whatever you happen to give. Again, I would encourage you to become familiar with the new covenant.

Actually, it does. It gives complete freedom to the believer. Pair that with the verse I quoted previously, "not grudgingly or under compulsion." Either there is compulsion to "give" a certain amount or percentage, or there is no compulsion. You can't have it both ways. As there is no Scripture...