BluntBoy:


That portion that I mentioned is still in the Bible just as the portion proclaiming violence (even if in self-defense) is still in the Quran.

So, enough of the Judaism nonsense. However hard you try, you can't deny that the Bible you carry to Church every Sunday and that you read personally contains scenes of violence against women and children.

MONIKERREVEALER:


No one is trying to convince you to believe nothing!!!

Acts 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man (Christ) whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

God has tried in overlooking man's ignorance and faults!!! He is unwilling to place people under laws because putting people under laws increases the pressure to break those same laws in people!!!

He, first of all, left man under his conscience. yet man hardened it with a hot iron and continued to sin!!!

He was then, after several centuries, forced to institute a body of laws to his select group: the Jews. His intention was to make them an example of how to live holy and righteous lives to the rest of the world!!!

Yet, it was difficult for them to walk in his just and holy laws hence the Jews and the rest of the world came under God's condemnation!!!

There was then no other solution than for God himself to pick up the gauntlet, put on flesh, come down to the world and show men by HIMSELF that it was possible to live a holy and righteous life as well as providing men with the grace to live such a life!!!

So, friend, you have no escape from this so great a salvation from the Almighty Elohim because he has kept the law on your behalf: even to the point of sacrificing his own blood instead of animal blood on the cross!!!

So now, all you have to do is believe on the perfect completion of the law on your behalf by the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and then truly repent of your sins and trust in Jesus Christ and you and your household shall be saved!!!

Let he who calls upon the name of the Lord depart from evil!!!

Live a life of agape love for God and your fellow man, in true righteousness and holiness, and heaven is assured for ALL eternity!!!

Shalom!!!

BluntBoy:


Do you pay tithes?

fairfora:
You are...none of my business.

MONIKERREVEALER:


Nothing wrong in paying tithes. There is no compulsion however in paying of tithes. A Christian is even supposed to be more generous than a tither! Still, Christians are not under the law but under grace. Sow sparingly, reap sparingly; sow bountifully, reap bountifully!!!

BluntBoy:


Then, why do your pastors use the curses in Malachi to force their followers into paying tithes? Some of them even threaten their followers with hell if they don't tithe. For example, Adeboye says that if one does not pay tithe, he will go to hell.

As for sowing bountifully, we all know the backstory. Paul was raising donations for the poor in Jerusalem. It was not tithing. There is a difference between tithing and donation. And if you insist that tithing must be donations, then, what is the essence of offerings that churches collect every time there is a church service?

What are the essence of the offerings? What are the essence of the tithes?

The only time Paul was recorded to have solicited funds from the saints, it was stated specifically that the fund was to go to the poor in the Jerusalem church.

TheOutlaw:

From the koran


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From the Hadith and Tafseer

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