Still looking for where she revealed the reason... No coherence, no correlation with the topic.

The post should have been titled: Christ embassy member presumes why Anita was absent...

If true ,we are seriously in some interesting times...

I don't believe this is real. One funny guy just designed this. No proper church address...

betterABIAstate:
your story is too long and LAck direction.

The tithing rule in the bible is clear, very clear;

Tithing is for levite according to law, the law didn't change anywhere after Deuteronomy, if you defile the law Malachi2 awaits you.

Jesus didn't practise tithing, it wasn't in the bible, unless you want to add to the bible, Christians are to live the life and by teaching of Jesus, Jesus never taught about tithing.

Tithe is not a monthly thing even according to the law

Stop painting this clear instruction

Yet again, I will correct your impressions on Jesus tithing...

Jesus was a jew by birth. Although the Bible did not record the happenings between Jesus's 12 years and 30 years of age. Those were his silent years. But traditions has it that he was a Carpenter. As so he was entitled to pay tithe. As a son of God and lover of God's law, he must have paid tithe for a fact. So erase the mentally that Jesus did not pay tithe. That information was not very important for the Bible not to have captured it. But one thing the Bible recorded was that he was always going to the temple to teach, right from the age of 12.

Yes. Tithe is not only meant to be monthly, it's could be an everyday thing based on your income pattern.

Also, contributions was made by the early churches and sent to the apostles. What do you call that?is the contribution biblical in that contest. 1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. KJV.

betterABIAstate:
Gabman700, don't defile this agreement, else the curses of Malachi 2 Will be yours, be careful

Hello sir, you are missing the point...
Do you understand why the apostles and early disciples were thoroughly persecuted and killed?
They preached the gospel to the gentiles , ate and dined with them, even went to the temple with the gentiles. Act 21

Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

The notion is that we the gentiles have been made partakers of the promise. We share and serve the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
So if we be partakers of the promises and blessings of the father, shall we then be denied the blessing of tithing in Malachi 3? 1 Peter 2:9 says we are a royal priesthood,a holy nation, God's special possession...
Thats why apostles Paul wrote to the Corinthians (gentiles), in 2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver

We are partakers of the promise. And we serve the same living God who is the same yesterday, today and forever... Hebrews 13:8.

And concerning the curse you made mention of, I have never heard nor seen anybody who gives to God and he is cursed in return sir....

betterABIAstate:
The origin of tithing from Abraham is not a normative one, Abraham didn't pay tithe from his income, he paid from the proceed of the war he went for to rescue lot. The tithing Abraham gave was once and it wasn't a law and compulsory act, if we should tithe like Abraham then it shouldn't be compulsorily every month and not from our income, it should be a once in a while thing without specific time frame and it should be from the proceed of a war.

Tithing of income became in law in Deuteronomy, that's the origin of "tithing of yearly income" and this tithe of income must be giving to a levite, Malachi 2 emphasized the curses placed on anybody who defiles this agreement with the levite.

Jesus never encouraged paying of tithe, he classified it as an unimportant thing in Mathew 23:23 and even start with "woe" unto them who pay it without doing the most important things.

After the death of Jesus, certain things that were comprised in the law of Moses were dropped; things like burnt offering, leaving of long beards and hair and tithing, no record of anybody doing this after the death of Jesus.

No one except levites should collect tithe, read Malachi 2 vs 1-19


My issue with modern day tithing is that, it is contrary to what was prescribed by the Bible, tithing in the bible was not monthly, even at at, tithing was dropped in the early church after the death of Jesus

For clarity purpose I will address the points per paragraph.

Abraham was not the only person who paid tithe in the Bible. He just happened to be the first person recorded to have paid it in the Bible. Also, paying tithe and offering is never compulsory in churches (to the best of my knowledge). Infact apostle Paul stated it in

2 Corinthian 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver

So it's a matter choice.


Paragraph 2, tithing of yearly income should be for you and your family with God's children. That is what Deutronomy 14 says. It's about you enjoying the fruits of your labour in God's house after the calendar year. Tithes from proceeds of your harvest (income) is meant for the levites solely.

Paragraph 3, no. He encouraged paying of tithe. What he spoke against was paying it but not have the love of God and perverting Justice. Please read Mathew 23:23
Carefully again.


Paragraph 4, No record of people keeping beards does not mean the Bible frowns at people keeping beards. The apostles had more pressing issues that keeping hair. Christians were persecuted everywhere. The apostles concentred on letters (epistles) to the new set of believers, hence the several epistles of Paul to the colossians etc.

Malachi 2 does not state anything about collecting tithe. It spoke about the behaviors of the priests and devorce which God is against.


Tithing should be done once your earn or after your harvest. Even in modern day church, some market women pay tithe every week.

This is just My summary.

Thank you and God bless.

Good morning all,
It is with gladness I write this in response to the ongoing controversy about the issue of tithing.
To shed more light and to put this matter to rest (if totally), I have taken time to create this topic.
First, we need to ask some salient questions raging and bring about this arguments.

Now the questions:
1). What is the origin of tithing?
1). Is it biblical to pay tithe in our churches?
2). What are tithes meant for?
3). Is paying tithe a MUST for Christians
4). Did JESUS encourage Tithing?

I will try my best to answer each of this questions backing them with relevant scriptural verses.

To start with, the origin of tithes starts from Gen 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

That is the first place tithe was ever paid in the Bible.

Tithing is as old the book of Genesis in the Bible.
Abraham was not mandated to pay the tithe. It was a voluntary act.

Fast forward to Moses Era, where the commandments came to God's people through Moses,

Leviticus 27:30--And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.

27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

Infact, according to the verse, once a person MISSES his tithe for a period and he wants to pay back he will have to pay 15% and NOT 10% again...
That is the commandment.

WHAT ARE TITHES FOR?

Amongst the 12 tribes of Isreal, the Levites are the only tribe that are not entitled to any inheritance. All other tribes have lands and possessions shared to them except the levites.
Deutronomy 10:9
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him. KJV
Joshua 13:33, Joshua 14:3

Because of the above, the commandments came that the tithe should be brought to God's house so there can be food for God's people, the levites.
Number 18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Number 18:26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.


Again from Num 18:26, levites are meant to pay tithe of whatever they collect from the people...

So to whom does the tithes of the levites? It goes to Aaron the chief priest...

So amongst the levites is the Supreme head, Aaron the chief priest who is entitled to their tithes...

Now here comes the section of the Bible causing this recent controversy... Deutronomy 14: 22 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year.

This statement is clear... "Be sure to set a tenth of your income yearly... And eat of it, you and your family...."
This is way different from the tithe of your proceeds monthly or immediately after harvest...
Infact, verse 28 talks about setting a tenth of your income every 3 years.

Deutronomy 14:28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied,and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

So in summary, a tithe of your proceeds after your harvest or income should be brought to the Levites.
Also, at the end of the year, you are meant to set a tithe of your yearly proceed and eat of it, you and your family. Also, you should set a tithe of your proceeds triennially and eat with less privileged, with the widow and also with the levites... Amos 4:4

Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled...

THE PRESENT DAY

In the present day, the levites are the clergy men who take pride in devoting their time and resources to serving God and interceding for God's people... They are the pastors, reverends etc in your churches... Infact some churches have full time pastors who do not do any work asides the ministry... Those are the people that the proceeds of tithes paid should be used on. It is there entitlement, according to God's word.

The question now is does the new testament talk about tithing?

Luke 11: 42 “Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

This shows that although JESUS condemns the Pharisees' habit of neglecting justice and love of God, he also said they should practice loving and God and ensuring justice WITHOUT ignoring the habit of paying tithe...

So JESUS supports tithes and its very biblical just as he supports paying tax... Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."

BUT IS PAYING TITHE A MUST?

In Malachi 3:7-9

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
KJV
Verse 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

2 Corinthian 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver
So paying tithe is every believers choice...And most importantly it attracts Gods blessing....

So in summary, Paying tithe is biblical and it attracts Gods blessing.Please do not be misled, The Scriptures is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 2 Timothy 3:16

God's Grace continually be with you. (Amen)

Note Please: I am not a pastor, and this is not in defense to pastor living flamboyant lifestyles as all will stand before God on the day of Judgement.

Who is the Mod that pushed this rubbish to front page? This was clearly staged. Someone's tab was rightly positioned in front of the ATM and recorded on youtube.
The Mod should have checked this clearly before pushing it to front page.

Seun , Lalasticlala , Kindly pull this down ASAP.

.

Thanks alot @singapore.
He has promised to do justice to his posts.

Yomieluv:


Someone called me begging me to buy 480,I refused,cos its way beyond my budget..

I need $40000 at 350-400/$ max.

If you have, pls mention me.

I bought for 400/$ yesterday,mind you..gabman was my witness.

Bros, no cause panic for people naw. The fact that you bought less than 50usd @ 400 does not mean you can always get @ 400.

My advice to all is not to be cajoled to dispose off your btc at cheap price.
BTC price will go up again cos there is still high demand. The only issue here is PANIC.

roblance:


Dm Don come o.

I understand your point. The guy is no scam. I have bought euro from him severally.
Even if you need German car, he will get that for you.

Feel free

Yea bro.

The best Eco tutor in the whole Lagos . So so popular @ almost all JAMB centers in Lag.

About a decade long and still met on Nairaland.

Welcome back.

Yomieluv:
This life ehn..

Me,and gabman were best of friend then.

I have been buying bitcoin from him,not knowing its my good friend selling Btc to me till today.

Gabman,you too much..back in the days all the way from school,to hustling in the street.

We chose different part,and still met at Nairaland.

One love bro...

Okay.

didymario7:
About to transact with gabman700

I am getting confused here, is the number 08105689985 or 08105689989?

Please clarify @ Agarawu

@Ziego, was the fund transferred to the company's account or individual's ?

If coy's
Post the account number.

Comeandcollect:
The FX in Nigeria has been artificially manipulated since the days of Awolowo and co, flexible exchange allows economic activities determine exchange rates, parallel market rate will no longer be influenced by CBN 199 to usd rate, parallel markets are now on their own to make individual profits rather than ganging up to peg and influence rates against the government.
This is a good development practical in developed nations.
Those expecting rates on monday, the rates you will see are market determined rates and will be fluctuational at short intervals.
The good new is buyers now have a greater bargaining power according to my friend Michael Porter as opposed to the opposite for the last century.
You will be surprised you see dollar at N285 now within minutes it drops to N270.
Trade wise.

Bruh I doubt your assertions coming true anytime soon. What the CBN has just done is to place us at the mercy of CABALs who are ready to drain the middle class off their little funds. CBN should have put regulations in place before agreeing to this and also be FULLY involved. I foresee the dollar skyrocketing madly with this.
Nigeria is in for a long ride....

seangy4konji:
Good evening house.

Please how much would 11,200 AED &48,000 AED be in Nigerian Naira?


Thanks in advance

If you are in the UAE, you can do that @ around 89.

http://www.xpressmoney.com/gl/af/afen/currency-calculator.html

They will exchange it for you at close to black market rate. I have used that before.
But the beneficiary must have a Skye bank account into which he/she will receive it.

agarawu23:
the notorious nairaland scammer awaritete Emmanuel has fed fat with lot of nlders money here. He must have built a duplex with millions he has scammed from nlders.

Pic one- when he started years ago as a nobody
Pic 2- after feeding fat with nlders. You can see his chicks

Bro, I do not think you have an idea who this guy is. He has imitated a lot of nairalander's moniker. Even used several people pictures.
Ask arbitrage he will also show you some pictures.
Visit his facebook page and you will see false information.
I will want you to consider removing the picture so you don't make angry guys lynch innocent people.

Mariesio:


Do you have paypal

No please. Only gift cards for now.

2300 Amazon gift card available @255.
PM if interested.

2300 Amazon gift card available @255.
Please do not call to negotiate price. That is the best it can go for.

@justijesu , I do not understand your meaning of being pathetic...
In as much as I believe you have a right to your opinions, that does not mean you should resort to using insulting words.

To the matter in hand...
Do you accuse someone of being a fraudster when he never duped you.

Did you expect me to take someone who sent a message to me that "i am scammer" while still negotiating with him to be serious.

I will only call you a fraud if you have done same to me or someone I know.

BTW, did you follow their line of conversations well and would still believe tumaba.ba would transact with him...

And if you must reply or quote me, please do not use abusive words.
Thanks

Fantastic

Your Watsapp number 080******0698?

tumababa:


I did gtb to gtb transfer. Will pm u. Thanks

No. We did not. I was so surprised someone I was still negotiating with would tell me he is a scammer.

shocker007:


Wait O. Did you guys did transaction or what. This would be like film trick if its true though.

kennyman2000:
gabman, you no try. you were here when Tumababa was interacting with the guy and never said anything. I saw u viewing the thread then bro. u no try at all. what are we brothers here for if we can't save ourselves. u for atleast talk to save a brother. this money isn't easy.

Not like that bro. I did not expect them to consummate the deals with their heated conversations. Guessed he gave it a trial after all.

I am still surprised that a scammer will confess to me that he is one. Anyways, am optimistic something may still come up.

@ tumababa, what bank did he use. Can you pm me with the bank and the account number?

My conversations with the mediamataz guy some weeks back.

He confessed to me that he is a scammer. I was surprised.

Apologies. I had to remove images cos of my phone number.

For all who need gift cards cheap...
You may get them including amazon gift cards through these means below.

There are online sites in the US that sell all kind of gift cards. They buy and sell @ discounts less the face values. For example, an amazon gift card on gift card granny goes for 82% of the face value (based on availability and timing). Other sites that also trade in gift cards are cardcash, abcgift card, etc. Rather than depending on amazon only, you may opt for other gift cards e.g bob's stores @ about 64% face value, aldo gift cards@ about 80% face value etc.
Let's calculate this together. You buy 100usd Bob store gift card using the current Stanbic rate of 315. You end up paying just 64 USD *315/100 which gives 201naira per USD in the end. Try same for other gift cards and see if it's worth it.
Nevertheless, you need US presence to achieve this. The sites will decline your order once they notice you are based in Africa. Also it will take some days for purchased cards to reach you.

Other alternatives is to buy online from individual sellers but be careful as some may sell gift bought with stolen credit card. Amazon will block your accounts once reported.

There are other sites also that exchange gift cards with e-currencies like bitcoin.

To avoid stories that touch i will suggest you surf the internet yourself.

Goodluck