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GenFunction:
..U have a more solid understanding about d theory of tithing than the OP

Thanks Sir but that was before Christianity was established after the establishment of Christianity tithing became obsolete!

My tithe goes to my church not my parents. I always gift my parents and meet their needs when I can and deem necessary.

99% of Nigerian pastors are fraud....know this and know peace.

Tithe is for whoever your pastor says based on the church u belong to.

In some its for the church
And in some its for the pastor
And in others its for the needy

I'm guilty of this,...

May God have mercy on my soul

I'm waiting

AntiChristian:

Corrections:
In Christianity, the importance of tithing can not be ignored. God instructed Christians to bring 10th of their total income to his storehouse or temple.

However, in today's modern world, people no longer give animals or material things as Tithe (not that it is forbidden) but instead all have been monetized.

One may wonder and ask the following questions:

* Why do Christians have to bring their TITHES to God's storehouse or temple?

* What is God's understanding of a store house or temple?

* Can one give his/her TITHE to parents or people if they are in need?

WHY DO CHRISTIANS HAVE to bring their TITHE to God's storehouse/ temple?

Malachi 3:10

New Living Translation
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test.

Just as it is written in the scripture, we give TITHE so that there will be enough in the temple or store house of God.

WHAT IS GOD'S UNDERSTANDING OF STOREHOUSE/ TEMPLE?

The scripture gives us a clear idea of God's understanding on what a storehouse/ temple is. In the scripture we can classify God's understanding of a storehouse/ temple as the following:

* Store house/ temple view by God as a Physical man made structures.

* Store house/ temple view by God as a human body (that is spirit with a soul)

STOREHOUSE/TEMPLE VIEW BY GOD AS A "PHYSICAL MAN MADE STRUCTURE"

Here God views a temple or storehouse as a structure built by man. It is always physical in nature.

Ezra 1: 3

New International Version
Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.

1Chronicles 28:3
New International Version
But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

Here we can clearly see that God is referring a house/temple as a man made structure.

STOREHOUSE/TEMPLE VIEW BY GOD AS A HUMAN BODY (THAT IS SPIRIT WITH A SOUL)

Here, God does not view a storehouse or temple as a physical man made structure but rather he views it as a human body that has a soul and a spirit.


1Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV),

He asks, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

John 4: 21-23

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit (the spirit is inside the body) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

Here Jesus was trying to tell us that our body will be the temple where God will be worshipped which confirms that God also sees our body as a storehouse/ temple.

Matthew 12:43-45

43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says[b], ‘I will return to the house I left[/b].’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there (because they see it just as God sees it as a house too) And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”

Here, Jesus is referring to human's body (that has a spirit and a soul) to be a house where demons could dwell or live. It opens our eye to the fact that God who is a spirit also sees our human physical body as a temple/house.

CAN ONE GIVE HIS/ HER TITHE TO PARENTS OR PEOPLE IF THEY ARE IN NEED?

Now, that we understand how God sees or defines a " storehouse or temple", we can now proceed to answering the question. The following are the 3 reasons why you can give your TITHE to your parents or people if they are in need.

* Jesus says in mark7:11-12

Mark7:11-12
New international Version
11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— 12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Here, Jesus was telling the people how wrong they were when they refused to help their parents with things (including tithe) they had dedicated to give God when they were seriously in need. If your parents are in serious need of money and you could help them with your tithe (because that is what is left to help) but told them "you rather give the money to God as tithe than them", Jesus says you are wrong.

* Your parents/ people are temple or storehouse (spirits that live in body with soul) of God by scriptures.

Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV),

He asks, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!!

This article is written to let us see from scriptures (bible) view that while it good to take our tithe to physical house of God we should not also condem the fact that humans body is also seen by God as a temple or storehouse in which we can invest our tithe in if they are in need of it after we have given every other things.


Meanwhile,, Jesus is waiting for you because jesus is the messiah the world is waiting so connect with him today! !!!


HOW TO CONNECT WITH JESUS

Your body is the house of God is it clean or dirty? You can make it clean by connecting to Jesus today.

John14:6
Jesus told him ' I am the way-
Yes, and the truth and the life. No one can GET to the father (GOD) except by means of me (JESUS ).


Say lord Jesus am sorry for the sins have committed and today I accept you as the son of God and as my lord and personal savior. Help me to follow you now and for ever more. Amen!!!

Read Deut 26: 12 - 13 and Deut 14: 22- 29.
That portion of the bible is one that the church deliberately refused to talk about.

To answer your question, it is a Big YES.
If anyone doubt, go and read it

Corrections:
In Christianity, the importance of tithing can not be ignored. God instructed Christians to bring 10th of their total income to his storehouse or temple.

However, in today's modern world, people no longer give animals or material things as Tithe (not that it is forbidden) but instead all have been monetized.

One may wonder and ask the following questions:

* Why do Christians have to bring their TITHES to God's storehouse or temple?

* What is God's understanding of a store house or temple?

* Can one give his/her TITHE to parents or people if they are in need?

WHY DO CHRISTIANS HAVE to bring their TITHE to God's storehouse/ temple?

Malachi 3:10

New Living Translation
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test.

Just as it is written in the scripture, we give TITHE so that there will be enough in the temple or store house of God.

WHAT IS GOD'S UNDERSTANDING OF STOREHOUSE/ TEMPLE?

The scripture gives us a clear idea of God's understanding on what a storehouse/ temple is. In the scripture we can classify God's understanding of a storehouse/ temple as the following:

* Store house/ temple view by God as a Physical man made structures.

* Store house/ temple view by God as a human body (that is spirit with a soul)

STOREHOUSE/TEMPLE VIEW BY GOD AS A "PHYSICAL MAN MADE STRUCTURE"

Here God views a temple or storehouse as a structure built by man. It is always physical in nature.

Ezra 1: 3

New International Version
Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.

1Chronicles 28:3
New International Version
But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.’

Here we can clearly see that God is referring a house/temple as a man made structure.

STOREHOUSE/TEMPLE VIEW BY GOD AS A HUMAN BODY (THAT IS SPIRIT WITH A SOUL)

Here, God does not view a storehouse or temple as a physical man made structure but rather he views it as a human body that has a soul and a spirit.


1Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV),

He asks, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

John 4: 21-23

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit (the spirit is inside the body) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

Here Jesus was trying to tell us that our body will be the temple where God will be worshipped which confirms that God also sees our body as a storehouse/ temple.

Matthew 12:43-45

43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says[b], ‘I will return to the house I left[/b].’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there (because they see it just as God sees it as a house too) And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”

Here, Jesus is referring to human's body (that has a spirit and a soul) to be a house where demons could dwell or live. It opens our eye to the fact that God who is a spirit also sees our human physical body as a temple/house.

CAN ONE GIVE HIS/ HER TITHE TO PARENTS OR PEOPLE IF THEY ARE IN NEED?

Now, that we understand how God sees or defines a " storehouse or temple", we can now proceed to answering the question. The following are the 3 reasons why you can give your TITHE to your parents or people if they are in need.

* Jesus says in mark7:11-12

Mark7:11-12
New international Version
11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— 12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Here, Jesus was telling the people how wrong they were when they refused to help their parents with things (including tithe) they had dedicated to give God when they were seriously in need. If your parents are in serious need of money and you could help them with your tithe (because that is what is left to help) but told them "you rather give the money to God as tithe than them", Jesus says you are wrong.

* Your parents/ people are temple or storehouse (spirits that live in body with soul) of God by scriptures.

Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV),

He asks, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!!

This article is written to let us see from scriptures (bible) view that while it good to take our tithe to physical house of God we should not also condem the fact that humans body is also seen by God as a temple or storehouse in which we can invest our tithe in if they are in need of it after we have given every other things.


Meanwhile,, Jesus is waiting for you because jesus is the messiah the world is waiting so connect with him today! !!!


HOW TO CONNECT WITH JESUS

Your body is the house of God is it clean or dirty? You can make it clean by connecting to Jesus today.

John14:6
Jesus told him ' I am the way-
Yes, and the truth and the life. No one can GET to the father (GOD) except by means of me (JESUS ).


Say lord Jesus am sorry for the sins have committed and today I accept you as the son of God and as my lord and personal savior. Help me to follow you now and for ever more. Amen!!!

Simply stated give your Tithe and more to whom the Almighty God leads you to.

It's either your church, mosque and the needy.

Sow to projects that lift humanity up.

EreluRoz:
How?

..Lets try to differentiate real pastors 4rm fake.A real pastor wudnt take tithes personal like u painted.Secondly tithing is diff frm helping the needy.

Tithe is not mandatory for Christians

Why is it that when they want to talk about tithe, they always ignore the book of Deuteronomy that explains tithe deeply.
Deu: 14:23-29
Deu: 28

MaxInDHouse:
Thanks Sir but that was before Christianity was established after the establishment of Christianity tithing became obsolete!

...Uwc,i agree.

See I don't understand can any of you work with out salary or work without pay? How do you want the pastor to survive, he has needs too, he has family to take care of and you say pastors are using tithe for embezzling? Then it means as a salary earner you are also embezzling too.

The question is: where did Jesus talk about tithes?

There was a time i was paying tithe to a little boy learning vulcanizing, currently i pay my tithe to someone in need.

James 1:27 (New International Version):

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

If you are a Christian, follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
There's no such thing as paying/giving/bringing of tithes in the new testament.
Whatever price you needed to pay to reach/please God and provoke his blessings have been paid by Jesus Christ when he died for you on the cross.
If you still believe anyone who tells you that you need to pay tithes for God to bless you, then you are not a Christian and you should start practicing the Jewish religion.
Your pastors won't tell you this because it will deplete their income and impact their lavish lifestyle.
Give whatever you can to those who need your help!!

EreluRoz:
We all know tithes are now use to fund the flamboyant lifestyle of modern pastors while the members of the church wallows in abject poverty. I prefer giving my tithe directly to the needy and assist the church with whatever it's lacking

...Dear Erelu,i get ur angle but those flambouyant pple u talk abt are pple like pastor indabosky giving others a bad name..Genuine pastors gift transformers 2 communities,scholarships etc

Kindly Read through and get a clearer understanding of Tithe...... Deuteronomy 14:23-29

No, only the church.

ShoeGetSize:
I'm waiting

Continue to wait!

GenFunction:
...Dear Erelu,i get ur angle but those flambouyant pple u talk abt are pple like pastor indabosky giving others a bad name..Genuine pastors gift transformers 2 communities,scholarships etc

You are right but genuine pastors are hard to come by these days

No, if you use it to take care of the poor and your needy parents who raised you. How will your Pastor build his 100k capacity worship center? How will he be able to afford Rolls Royce? How will he be able to by a Private Jet? Or build a University that your kids can't attend?

No ooo, pay it to your pastor to fund his luxurious lifestyle and security. Una go dey give pastor money , parents go dey hungry for village or be on sick bed. Una go learn the hard way.

God commanded the Jews. No where in the bible where Christians commanded to give tithes. Christians are not to become Jews to serve God.

GenFunction:
...Dear Erelu,i get ur angle but those flambouyant pple u talk abt are pple like pastor indabosky giving others a bad name..Genuine pastors gift transformers 2 communities,scholarships etc

Which genuine pastors?
Those things they give are actually a little fraction of the profit they make from investing the money they collect form their followers in the name of tithes & offerings.
They all have flourishing businesses registered in their name and those businesses are funded with money from the church.
They set up hospitals, schools, banks, oil and gas firms, hotels, event centres, shopping malls, estates, name them.

What exactly is tithe?

EreluRoz:
You are right but genuine pastors are hard to come by these days

...Gospel truth...But if u look well without being a religious misfit u go fit see one wey go fit help u guide to christ and be a better human being.

MaxInDHouse:
You didn't answer the question!



God commanded His people to help the needy but that totally differs from giving such ones what they are supposed to bring into the temple.
For your information the tithe is for the priests, singers, widows, orphans and visitors.

Those officiating in the temple will do justice to this and not the one who is bringing the tithe so whoever gives it to anyone apart from depositing it in the temple has sinned against God!
You can't teach God how to run His organization if you want to give anything to the needy that's called "gift of mercy" you have the right to give whoever you choose but the tithe belongs to the temple and it's officiating priests and the temple that will make use of it not the donor!

Deuteronomy 14:28-29

For me, once my 10% is up to 50k, I'm going into charity.
I can't be feeding my pastor when others outside are in need.

MaxInDHouse:
You didn't answer the question!



God commanded His people to help the needy but that totally differs from giving such ones what they are supposed to bring into the temple.
For your information the tithe is for the priests, singers, widows, orphans and visitors.

Those officiating in the temple will do justice to this and not the one who is bringing the tithe so whoever gives it to anyone apart from depositing it in the temple has sinned against God!
You can't teach God how to run His organization if you want to give anything to the needy that's called "gift of mercy" you have the right to give whoever you choose but the tithe belongs to the temple and it's officiating priests and the temple that will make use of it not the donor!

Deuteronomy 14:32-29 for proper understanding

First I don't believe in tithe as mandatory for a person. Giving is the main law. A tenth or more of all u have is to spend on other causes aside urs. That's the principle of increase.

Urgent1Million:
Which genuine pastors?
Those things they give are actually a little fraction of the profit they make from investing the money they collect form their followers in the name of tithes & offerings.
They all have flourishing businesses registered in their name and those businesses are funded with money from the church.
They set up hospitals, schools, banks, oil and gas firms, hotels, event centres, shopping malls, estates, name them.

...Im nt here to advertise any Man of God but genuine ones dey,enuf to count sef...so make pastor no get school or be succesful because hes a pastor?This ur angle go bring premium dragging,this i have seen.