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To tithe, or not to tithe. That is the question! (2)

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The conscience of a born again person is a safe guide if they are from their heart seeking to do right.

For those who are not there is no safe guide.

well...the hebrew Christians in hebrews, had to be shown how to be cleansed of guilt, as no doubt, they were headed under law guilt feeling noble about works, under the same guilt tithing teachers use, all showing just how fragile the conscience is, by way of reminder in Heb 9-10.

no tithing law guilt, a principle often wielded by the paper tiger tithe doctrine proponents.


9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
 
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It appears you don't have the reference I was asking for, although you have shown here that you desire to gauge Abraham's actions as license to assume God told Him to tithe, which not one jot or tittle of the text gives indication.

Are you saying that what Abram swore to the Lord also included a promise to tithe?

Assuming that were right, that still has no bearing upon us today where tithing is concerned, because Abram-Abraham also had concubines (plural) and two wives. Some have gone so far as to say he was living in the sin of adultery.

To such people I say they are basically demanding that we will all observe Abraham burning in the pits of Hell, which I reject. I have scripture that says otherwise in Genesis 25.

How does one draw the parallels between Abraham, Melchizedek, the Levites and tithing to modern, man-made church organizations? It simply doesn't fit the text, no matter how many conversations with God one may have. God will never contradict His written word.

BTW
 
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Simple solution to the question of to tithe or not.

Do what your conscience says.

The conscience is the "voice" of your born again spirit where the Holy Spirit lives.

(Jer 17:9) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
 
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Hi to everyone. When one tithed it was from one's excess and was to support the Levites Priests who had no land or income. The others were 'gifts' to God from a persons excess or offerings.... as for law...we have over the years slipped into error...Gods commandments are Gods instructions....law is man made and and the translators incorrectly used the term widely so that now we have law refering to what was given to moses instead of what was added to Gods instructions commandments by scribes, rabbi's , pharasees etc...the later being what Jesus, Paul spoke against, not Gods instructions.
 
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Hi to everyone. When one tithed it was from one's excess and was to support the Levites Priests who had no land or income.

Yes. The tithe came from only the increase from producing fields, orchards and vineyards, not from the wages of wage earners like you and me.


Perhaps you could elaborate on this more. I'm not sure what you're saying.

BTW
 
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