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Blue-Faces · 2025-05-03T18:05:33+00:00

2 Corinthians 9:7, which states, "Each of you should give as you have decided in your heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."

It sounds to me you are thinking of tithes as a transaction. (I give money for good= God gives me good) it does not work that way. When you give you have to do it because you like giving. That’s what it means to be a cheerful giver.

“If you cannot pay the loan, your own bed may be taken right out from under you.” Proverbs 22:26-27

Don’t tithe with a credit card! I wish I never got a credit card you can lose more than you ever tried to borrow if you aren’t smart with it

TLDR; don’t borrow, give cheerfully with no expectations

HeWillLaugh · 2025-05-03T20:00:33+00:00

Maybe it's because Malachi is talking to Israel (Malachi 1:1) and not everyone in the world?

SleepingMonads · 2025-05-03T18:12:53+00:00

Trying to trigger material blessings by tithing the perfect amount and tracking back-tithes and being concerned about using credit instead of cash and all that is not what Christianity is about. Your relationship with God transcends material boons and is not so bureaucratic. Christians have been tithing and praying without seeing their day-to-day lives improve for two thousand years, and that's not about to change, regardless of what Malachi says. The Lord is mysterious. Focus on what matters and hope for the best; don't torment yourself over technicalities and trivialities.

BTSInDarkness · 2025-05-03T18:00:41+00:00

You can’t buy blessings in that way. Seems very presumptuous to assume that “blessings” refers to “material good things in my life” and not “God bringing me closer to him”.

Miriamathome · 2025-05-04T06:17:49+00:00

God is not a bubblegum machine. You don’t put in a certain amount of money and get a tangible prize.

Unrepententheretic · 2025-05-03T20:06:52+00:00

Malachi 3:10 is not about normal tithing. Its about Gods people withholding the tithes they are supposed to pay him. The blessings mentioned are for the nation of Israel.

"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."

You cant tithe with money you dont actually own so there is no point in taking up debts for tithing to gain blessings as this sounds like a pyramid scheme.

Jesus says tithing is good for our soul as we store up treasures in heaven as opposed to treasures on earth.

OkQuantity4011 · 2025-05-03T20:13:28+00:00

Instead of paying salarymen a salary for telling you to pay them, you might try giving to the poor. A priest of YHWH is not to take a salary. A priest lives by the law of hospitality.

Also, it's not "Ask, believing, and you will receive."

It's "Ask in obedience and you will receive."

YHWH does care about His oxen, despite the men who insist otherwise.

Deep-Promotion-2293 · 2025-05-03T21:56:13+00:00

Look up "prosperity gospel". Your "tithes" don't do anything for G-d, they enrich the pastor. You cannot buy blessings. G-d doesn't need your money. Just stop it. If you want to give, give to the people and places that need it, homeless shelters, animal rescues, reputable go fund mes.

G-d blesses you every day. A roof over your head, food to eat, clothes to wear, a job, a vehicle to drive. G-d is not going to make you rich. Remember what is written about a rich man and heaven?

CompetitiveInjury700 · 2025-05-04T13:53:50+00:00

When you do good to the good, there is a feeling associated with doing good. That feeling of happiness that comes with doing good is the reward. In the new testament we are told to good, or lend, without expecting anything in return, so not do good materially expecting material come back. We should also not be egotistical about the good that we do, not make a big show of it, but simply do good for the sake of good itself, otherwise that feeling of genuine happiness is destroyed, or replaced by ego. We should also not harm ourselves in the process e.g. help a thief, or tithe to greedy people.

vayyiqra · 2025-05-05T15:02:27+00:00

Huh? You can't buy blessings, that sounds akin to simony. Or prosperity gospel garbage.

I wouldn't trust any denomination that has mandatory tithing (and does the Salvation Army even have that?). Voluntary donations like the Catholic collection plate are meant to help fund the church, not to get something out of it.

If you want to get something out of your faith, go to church and practice it.

Wild_Hook · 2025-05-08T21:54:28+00:00

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints practices the law of tithing whereby faithful members contribute 10 percent of their increase annually. As a commandment of God, paying tithing is an act of faith that is rewarded in many ways which includes spiritual blessings as well and temporal blessings. Faith or trust that God will bless us is built upon faithful sacrifice of self.

The church claims to be led by revelation to living apostles, and obedience to any of the laws of God as given through His authorized servants is an act of faith that is rewarded. The greatest blessings of tithing are spiritual as we come to know with surety that God lives and that we can trust Him.

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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?)

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