THE TITHES.
Do collecting tithes in the church Biblical or Not?
As the typical hypocrites, the church adapted collecting tithes long time ago. Usually church required 10% (tithe) and always referring to the Old Testament as an excuse and as a Commandment of GOD to do so, while on the other hand generally ignoring Old Testament, declaring it obsolete and no longer valid.
Of course collecting money (tithes), corrupted and greedy church completely validated it for themselves, despite the fact that this is the Old Testament Statute, because this one they cannot miss and pass over it, because it is too valuable to loos.
So only one Commandment from the Old Testament, the Commandment concerning tithes, church adapted without questions ask, to enrich and to benefit themselves from the Law of Moses which they basically ignoring and found not useful anymore!
As it written in James, if you break one Commandments of the Law you are guilty against entire Law, how much more if you violate entire Law, and adapt only one Commandments from it, and use it in the wrong, dishonest, and corrupt way!
James 2.10
10.Whoever keeps the whole Law but fails in one point, has become accountable for all of it.
But in truth, as a matter of fact, tithes are never been in the form of money, not even close, but always in the form of produce of the field and animals from the flock.
~ The Tithe can be made from large and small animals, dough, fruits, wine, oil, honey, and from the harvest of grain cultures (Leviticus 27.30-34) (Deuteronomy 14.23) (2Chronicles 31.5-6) (Nehemiah 10.37, 13.4-5).
~ Tithes from the fields were collected every year (Deuteronomy 14.22), and at the end of every third year Tithes collected from produce of that year and deposited in towns. (Deuteronomy 14.28, 26.12).
~ Tithes were considered as a payment to Levites for their services (Numbers 18.21.31).
~ From Tithes that were given to Levites they took the tenth of the tithes and stored them in the chambers of the storehouse (Nehemiah 10.38), and from these Tithes Levites presented offering to the Lord, a Tithe from the Tithe (Numbers 18.26-29).
~ Tithes also served as humanitarian care when at the end of the third year after paying their own tithes to the Lord the rest of the tithes were given to the poor and the strangers, orphans, and widows (Deuteronomy 14.29, 26.12-13).
~ If the Tabernacle or the Temple located too far for a person to reach in order to give his Tithe, he was allowed to exchange his Tithe for money, and then he will reach the Holy Place, he then may buy for this money a Tithe, (means animal or field product) and present it to Levites and to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14.24-26).
Tithes can be divided on major groups:
The Physical tithes collected for physical mortal men, for Levites and for the needy and poor.
The Spiritual tithes such as: Justice, Mercy, Faithfulness (Matthew 23.23), and the love for GOD (Luke 11.42), collected in the hearts of men and presented before GOD in the deeds of Charity as Compassion, Mercy, Justice, and Faithfulness, all deriving from the love for GOD.
Matthew 23.23
23."Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you tithe, mint, and dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: Justice, and Mercy, and Faithfulness, these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
Luke 11.42
"42.But woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithe of mint and rue ("rue - from its thick and fleshly leaves". KSB, Greek Dictionary of the New Testament, page 57), and every kind garden herb, and yet disregard Justice and the Love of GOD, but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
These two passages of Mathew 23.23 and Luke 11.42 can summarized and in such ways as well:
"Woe to you corrupted and greedy church clergy hypocrites, for collecting money-tithes and have neglected and disregard weightier provisions of the Law, Justice, and Mercy, and Faithfulness, and the love of GOD, but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
Another excuse that church usually made for collecting "tithes" is to declare:
"GOD loves a cheerful giver" (2Corinthains 9.6-7)
But this subject I will save for some other time.
Do collecting tithes in the church Biblical or Not?
As the typical hypocrites, the church adapted collecting tithes long time ago. Usually church required 10% (tithe) and always referring to the Old Testament as an excuse and as a Commandment of GOD to do so, while on the other hand generally ignoring Old Testament, declaring it obsolete and no longer valid.
Of course collecting money (tithes), corrupted and greedy church completely validated it for themselves, despite the fact that this is the Old Testament Statute, because this one they cannot miss and pass over it, because it is too valuable to loos.
So only one Commandment from the Old Testament, the Commandment concerning tithes, church adapted without questions ask, to enrich and to benefit themselves from the Law of Moses which they basically ignoring and found not useful anymore!
As it written in James, if you break one Commandments of the Law you are guilty against entire Law, how much more if you violate entire Law, and adapt only one Commandments from it, and use it in the wrong, dishonest, and corrupt way!
James 2.10
10.Whoever keeps the whole Law but fails in one point, has become accountable for all of it.
But in truth, as a matter of fact, tithes are never been in the form of money, not even close, but always in the form of produce of the field and animals from the flock.
~ The Tithe can be made from large and small animals, dough, fruits, wine, oil, honey, and from the harvest of grain cultures (Leviticus 27.30-34) (Deuteronomy 14.23) (2Chronicles 31.5-6) (Nehemiah 10.37, 13.4-5).
~ Tithes from the fields were collected every year (Deuteronomy 14.22), and at the end of every third year Tithes collected from produce of that year and deposited in towns. (Deuteronomy 14.28, 26.12).
~ Tithes were considered as a payment to Levites for their services (Numbers 18.21.31).
~ From Tithes that were given to Levites they took the tenth of the tithes and stored them in the chambers of the storehouse (Nehemiah 10.38), and from these Tithes Levites presented offering to the Lord, a Tithe from the Tithe (Numbers 18.26-29).
~ Tithes also served as humanitarian care when at the end of the third year after paying their own tithes to the Lord the rest of the tithes were given to the poor and the strangers, orphans, and widows (Deuteronomy 14.29, 26.12-13).
~ If the Tabernacle or the Temple located too far for a person to reach in order to give his Tithe, he was allowed to exchange his Tithe for money, and then he will reach the Holy Place, he then may buy for this money a Tithe, (means animal or field product) and present it to Levites and to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14.24-26).
Tithes can be divided on major groups:
The Physical tithes collected for physical mortal men, for Levites and for the needy and poor.
The Spiritual tithes such as: Justice, Mercy, Faithfulness (Matthew 23.23), and the love for GOD (Luke 11.42), collected in the hearts of men and presented before GOD in the deeds of Charity as Compassion, Mercy, Justice, and Faithfulness, all deriving from the love for GOD.
Matthew 23.23
23."Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you tithe, mint, and dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: Justice, and Mercy, and Faithfulness, these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
Luke 11.42
"42.But woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithe of mint and rue ("rue - from its thick and fleshly leaves". KSB, Greek Dictionary of the New Testament, page 57), and every kind garden herb, and yet disregard Justice and the Love of GOD, but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
These two passages of Mathew 23.23 and Luke 11.42 can summarized and in such ways as well:
"Woe to you corrupted and greedy church clergy hypocrites, for collecting money-tithes and have neglected and disregard weightier provisions of the Law, Justice, and Mercy, and Faithfulness, and the love of GOD, but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others."
Another excuse that church usually made for collecting "tithes" is to declare:
"GOD loves a cheerful giver" (2Corinthains 9.6-7)
But this subject I will save for some other time.
