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Please understand what a tithe is. If you give more than 10 percent you are not tithing and you would actually be in violation of the law if tithing were binding today. However, it is a sign of good citizenship that one should support the institutions to which he belongs and on which he depends. Don't buy into the idea that you are giving God money when you tithe. You say you believe that all belongs to God so how can you think you are giving anything to Him. Men get your money and men use it: sometimes wisely and sometimes not.I respectfully disagree, StormyOne. God owns it all; it is we who should be thanking Him for His gracious provision.
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Again, we're not commanded to tithe in the church age, but we're not forbidden to either. How much to give, if anything, is a choice the individual makes before God.
all knowledge meaning? or what I am asking is this, some knowledge over time is assessed as incorrect or untrue... does knowledge that is untrue also belong to God?And as one who believes that the God of the Christian is also the Creator of the universe I believe that all knowledge is God's knowledge.
It all belongs to Him. How we use it is another matter. You don't believe what you parents told you when you were a two year old about how children came into existence but that does not mean they gave you wrong information.all knowledge meaning? or what I am asking is this, some knowledge over time is assessed as incorrect or untrue... does knowledge that is untrue also belong to God?
A stork did not deliver me.... that is wrong info.....It all belongs to Him. How we use it is another matter. You don't believe what you parents told you when you were a two year old about how children came into existence but that does not mean they gave you wrong information.
But only if you think of it as a literal stork.A stork did not deliver me.... that is wrong info.....
If it doesn't then he has no rights over it, no authority over it, and no basis on which to levy consequences for it.does knowledge that is untrue also belong to God?
If it doesn't then he has no rights over it, no authority over it, and no basis on which to levy consequences for it.
Without Him there was nothing made that was made... At least, that's the theory.
Does error exist? If so, did God create or make error?
BFA
You ask the question as if error is a crime. Error is an integral aspect of life. Only Mathematics is a pure science.
Part of the confusion comes from our "man with a magic wand" imagery. One place this is seen is our insistence that the creation story is a "play by play."You have read things into my post that are not part of my thought process. If error is a crime (as you assert), it is a crime for which we are all guilty.
I reiterate my questions:
1. Does error exist?BFA
2. If so, did God create or make error?
Part of the confusion comes from our "man with a magic wand" imagery. One place this is seen is our insistence that the creation story is a "play by play."
Then why would you ask the question? Error is a part of probability and God created probability. Why do you think trees have knots?Almost like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia?Whether or not the creation story is a play-by-play, I have no interest in making emphatic claims about it that are merely based on my opinion.
BFA
Do you know of another creator?You have read things into my post that are not part of my thought process. If error is a crime (as you assert), it is a crime for which we are all guilty.
I reiterate my questions:1. Does error exist?BFA
2. If so, did God create or make error?
Yes.Does error exist?
Yes.If so, did God create or make error?
Yes.
Yes.
Error is often a blend of shortfall and context.
2+2=4 ...
unless we're adding water to water, in which case we lose some water volume to air.
In such cases it would be an error to say that 2+2=4; 2+2= <4 because other laws or factors than the laws of abstract math are in play, and that context affects the final result.
But all such circumstantial law is part of the world created by God. There's no other.
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