Saturday, May 03, 2025

I was trying to buy blessings by tithing according to Malachi 3:10, but no significant improvement in my life happened. Is it because I didn't tithe the full 10%? Or because I tithed with "money I didn't have?" (I.e. to the Salvation Army online with a credit card?)

 

I was trying to buy blessings by tithing according to Malachi 3:10, but no significant improvement in my life happened. Is it because I didn't tithe the full 10%? Or because I tithed with "money I didn't have?" (I.e. to the Salvation Army online with a credit card?)

I was delighted that I could tithe with credit and debit cards, to the Salvation Army.

I still can't tithe with cards to the local Church of God. They still take tithes & offerings the old-fashioned ways, which I don't like.

So I've been keeping track of the back-tithes that I owe, and only tithed 5% to the Salvation Army with a credit card because the other 5% I intend to tithe to Church of God when they start accepting payments by cards.

I stopped tithing to the Salvation Army last year when their Major encouraged me to not tithe with debt by tithing with a credit card. Mom also told me to stop tithing with debt / a credit card.

I decided I'd keep track of the tithes I still have yet to pay, then pay those back-tithes to both churches when I'm out of all debts.

I though tithes in any amount would buy me blessings now that I know the verse Malachi 3:10, but are those blessings triggered when I pay all of the 10% of my income? And do those blessings never happen when I pay with money I don't have, such as a credit card instead of a debit card?

 

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[–]IntrovertIdentity99.44% Episcopalian & Gen X 3 points  

You don’t buy blessings.

Maybe you should go to church that doesn’t preach a prosperity gospel.

[–]yappi211Salvation of all. Antinomianism. 0 points  

True for today, but you should read Leviticus 26. If you are part of the covenant with Israel, God promised to bless them for obedience. That's where the prosperity gospel stems from.

[–]yappi211Salvation of all. Antinomianism. 2 points  

Tithing was about food, not cash. If you made cash for a living you essentially tithed nothing. Today, tithing is dead. After all, there is no Jewish temple for you to bring your food tithes to. Also, tithing was over 40% per year over a 50 year average:

You tithe 10% to yourself:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+14%3A22-27&version=KJV

This ends up being 3.3333%:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+14%3A28-29&version=KJV

10% given to the storehouse:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi+3%3A10&version=KJV

10% to the Levites:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+18%3A24+&version=KJV

If you converted your tithe into cash, there was a 20% penalty:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+27%3A30-31&version=KJV

Temple tax:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah+10%3A32&version=KJV

A welfare program:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A9-10&version=KJV

14%: You weren't allowed to farm every 7th year. Failure to do this caused Israel to be exiled to be Babylon for 70 years.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23%3A10-11&version=KJV

1 year out of 50 is 2%

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lev+25%3A10+&version=KJV

Jesus confirms tithing is about food:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mathew+23%3A23&version=KJV

If you've gotten this far and want to hear the radio broadcoast I got this from, head to https://www.discerningthetimespublishing.com/aboutus.html

Once here, click on "Why no Christian should tithe". Just know that this was recorded from a radio broadcast he did some years ago so the audio quality isn't the best.

[–]Miriamathome 1 point  

This is hilarious.

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