Hi fil!
In the context of tithing you previously quoted 2 Cor 3:6 Who also hath made us
able ministers of the new testament; not of the
letter, but of the
spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the
spirit giveth life,
You've now quoted it again, seemingly this time in relation to stealing! No doubt you see the connection. But I cannot. It's very sad for me to say that you seem to have a sort of 'off beam' and mixed up understanding of God's word.
Meantime my previous explanation about this verse stands, and it would be my sincere and earnest hope that you could both read and understand what I previously wrote about it.
I will make no comment this time, nor probably in the future.
My very best wishes to you for now and your future!!
- BM
BM, Sir, how do you reconcile the basic truth about how GOD speaks, and it is not the way we HUMANS do? He speaks in parables and dark sayings of old:
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Eze 20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables?
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Psa 78:2 I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter
dark sayings of old:
And with the Law on Tithes, God speaks of "eating what is being offered:
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Deu 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
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Deu 14:23 And
thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
And, Jesus Christ said He did not destroy the Law but He came to fulfill it. In this regard, the Law on Tithe when He told His Apostles:
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Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them,
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
MOREOVER, what was demonstrated by our Lord was substantiated by Paul in the following,
which is contrary to what present-day religious leaders believe and do:
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Act 20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
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Act 20:34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
Is not PAUL the leading Apostle of Christ? Why don't we listen to him giving the following lesson?
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1 Cor 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also
am of Christ.
Does not the following directly relate to TITHING?
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2 The 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day,
that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
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2 The 3:9 Not because we have not power,
but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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2 The 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that
if any would not work, neither should he eat.
