Posted on 06/08/2008 9:13:54 AM PDT by ravenwolf
The great harlot of revelations.
It seems I caused a lot of confussion by not taking more time in writing the thread, mayby I should have put some smileys in it to let people know that it was not a hate thread, I do not hate the church,s.Please do not take this as an apoligy, I admit that I am a grade school drop out and should have watched my spelling and grammar, but what I wrote was meant to be guestions in the form of comments. that should be easy to understand even for me and much easier for the educated Godly.
I believed there would be enough christians out there who would be aguainted enough with the scriptures to be able to point me to the scriptures that would back up the doctrine of the Sunday sabaath and also the christian church tithing system.
Surly A grade school drop out such as my self should not have to explain what the tithing system is to the colledge educated professionals.
And should not have to explain the differenence between tithes and offerings, and it should not be too big of a job to point out the scripture that tells us to rest on Sunday instead of saturday.
I have been to many church,s trying to learn and they all claim that the bible is the last word but I do not see anything in the bible that permits the christian church,s to collect tithe,s nor to change the sabaath to sunday. if they really believe the bible to be the last word why won,t they tell you where the word is?
I will apoligize to the scribes and pharisee,s for my lack of education. it is not fair to them because they can get on the wrong subject so easy.
This is the reason why some groups such as the Seventh Day Adventists insist on celebrating the Sabbath on Saturday.
In the Apostolic period, it was decided that the Lord's Day should be celebrated on the day of the Resurrection, which fell on the first day of the week. That said, this first day is also the "eighth day" of the week, which is the first day of the New Creation as heralded by the Resurrection.
As far as I know, it isn't explicitly spelled out in Scripture, but was taught by the Apostles (to whom Christ gave the Authority to teach, preach and forgive sins) and those following who received that Divine Authority from them. This tradition has continued to the present day, and even most of the Protestant reformers and their followers retained it.
I'm out for the day, but I hope this helps and is worthwhile. Enjoy the Lord's Day.
Will you be including an apology for those remarks, too?
There is no Sunday sabbath for Christians in the Old Testament sense; there is no Saturday sabbath either. We are not under the law. If churches want to have services on Tuesdays, or if people want to work on Sundays and take Thursdays off, there is nothing to forbid it. But the sabbath - at least in terms of the Old Covenant law - is no more.
Thank you for the reply, it is plain that the early christians did hold church service, evidently from sundown on saturday to whenever. but it was my view that they done this in respect of the sabaath or in respect of the resurection, however I have not been showed any law that changed the law. but I do have an open mind. thanks very much
If it was good enough for Abraham (Abram)............
No.
It seems you were able to obtain an e-mail account, register with FR, understand the instructions on how to post and hit the right keys so how is it you find the “spell” button so obscure? Or perhaps this “poor, humble, uneducated seeker of answers” act has some purpose?
Tell you what, Write something readable and can the humble pie, mea culpa, self effacement role playing and I’ll be happy to address your questions according to what I find in Scripture.
If you can’t do that then I’ve no more time to waste.
Good day.
That is my understanding also, that is why i do not agree with the changing of the sabaath to sunday, if I were to keep the sabaath it would be on saturday. thank you.
thanks for the reply, but as you said Abram gave him a tenth
of everything,
Not paid.
thanks for the reply, but as you said Abram gave him a tenth
of everything,
Not paid.
thanks for the reply, but as you said Abram gave him a tenth
of everything,
Not paid. if people wants to give, there is no problem.

I found her for ya.
No thanks necessary.
Question: Why do you think Christians should have to follow the Law on which day to worship (Saturday), but should not follow the Law on how to finance our worship (tithes and offerings). Jesus Christ's sacrificial atonement has met and fulfilled all of our obligations to the Law of Moses. We are no longer obligated to follow it. I think its a matter of semantics. Christians have an obligation to support the ministries they belong to.
Thank you.
Tithe comes from “tenth”. Nobody has to tithe, it is simply a way for protestant churched to thrive. Almost no one actually tithes anymore.
The Saturday Sabbath was a Jewish law. Gentiles were never under those laws unless they’d converted to Judaism. With his death on the cross, Christ did away with ALL laws and ordinances.
Colossians 2:14 - “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”
Ephesians 2:14-15 - “For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (15) Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;”
Galatians 3:13 - “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:”
Rather than follow the Jewish laws, Christians follow Christ’s example. After his crucifixion, Christ met with his disciples on Sundays. (The Jewish method of time-keeping was to begin counting the current day instead of starting with tomorrow.)
The same with tithing. Gentiles were never given the law of tithing and it was actually a governmental law rather than a religious law. It was the Israelite version of income tax and it was to be used for the care of the orphans and widows.
Abraham tithed only one time in his life and that was because he chose to, not because he was commanded to.
Christian giving is noted in 2 Corinthians 9:6&7 - “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. (7) Every man acording as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
(According to the Greek and Hebrew dictionary, the word “bountifully” used here means “regularly”.)
While a specific amount isn’t commanded in the New Testament, we are told to give regularly and cheerfully. Sometimes our giving includes time, materials, labor, etc. rather than just money.
The law was never given on the assumption we could keep it. It was given to show us we COULDN’T and our only hope was the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.
Actually, it would be from Friday, 6pm to Saturday 6pm...
American Sabbath followers don't really follow the Sabbath anyway...
The commandment says to keep the sabaath day holy, ( not the exact words ) but there is no commandment to pay tithes.
Ps I do not think there is any law to worship on a certain day, but I still do not see any law that changed the sabaath to sunday either.
Thats right.
You have it right down to the letter and I certainly agree, but many of the christian churches still call it tithe,s
I will not mention any church because for one reason i like the people, and i would not do that any way, but a member of one church said they told him he was behind on tithe,s
and he quit the church for that reason, he did read the bible
you have my agreement on that, in fact I wish i could have thought of that. thank you
Yes and no. Defining of terms is in order. Worship can be defined many ways. Tithing is worship. Singing is worship. Giving thanks is worship. presenting your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. (same Greek word used for service as is used for worship.) Praying is worship. Is there a "certain" day designated for praying? Yes! Pray without ceasing! The certain day would be every day!
These are not called upon to be done on a "certain" day, but are to be done in the time frame that is implied by the first commandment, which would be all the time, which is the "certain" time in this instance.
If you are defining the term "worship" as what the church does when it assembles corporately, then that falls under the commandment of not forsaking the assembly of the Saints, which for many will be, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, or anytime the Body unites to feed from the Spirit and edify itself through the Word, and encouraging one another, and bearing each others burdens, etc.
We have freedom in Christ in that we are not bound by the Levitical Law. The moral law we fulfill by being bound (as slaves) to Christ, with His righteousness applied to our souls. If we love Him, we will obey His commands. His command is to work six days, and rest on the seventh day. His wording from the start did not say which days those six would be and which days the seventh would be. If we can rely whole heartedly on the Hebrews to have not obscured to the slightest degree the tradition of the seventh day being from Friday at sundown to Saturday at sundown, then the Jewish Sabbath would be correct technically.
But since the Jews, according to their historical accounts, have been out of the will of God more that in it, I can't put all of my trust in them to have kept the calendar accurate. Close, but not accurate.
Thus I will put my faith in Christ's own words in that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
To pursue arguments in the Body to the point of being Pharisaical and lacking spiritual value can only be a spirit of division and of Satan.
Good thinking, every day is the lords day, all I am doubting is that any one has the right to change the sabaath to sunday and I doubt the authority of the Christian Chruch to collect tithe,s and many or most of them do claim that authority, also even though I bad mouth the scribes and pharisee,s ( and I should not do that ) we need to acknowledge if not for them we would not have the old or the new testament. Our lord had a lot to say about them and most of it was not good, The religious leaders of his day were ( in my opinion ) living high on the hog preaching the laws of a God that they only partly or maby did not believe in. are many of the preachers of our day doing the same thing?
In stJohn ch 10 verse 12 and 13 Christ,s own words
But he that is an hireling and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are, seeth the wolf come,and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
14
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
I know what it means for the wolf to come or for it to be at your door, that phrase used to be used guite often, hunger, empty pockets, bare pantrys, and it can also mean other types of enemies.
I have seen preachers guit a church and go to another one because they could get more money, and these were men who were guite able to work.
Many preachers try to interpret freely in a different sense, but I think it speaks for its self.
So if anyone can show me the law from the new testament,( in plain words ) that the christian church, has the authority to change the sabaath to sunday or have the authority to collect tithes, then I will believe it, even if they are preachers for hire.
I believe that the church should only have the doctrines that are plain and to the point, but they do not stop there and thats why there are so many of them that has different
doctrines, and i believe it is the job of any christian to insist that they stick to what the Bible says rather than to make gospel out of thier own conclusions.
If 100 people interpret a scripture a 100 ways then there is a very good posibility 100 are wrong and at least 99.
And I really do appreciate getting common sense and acurate
comments from you, Thanks
I'm not seeing where Christ (after his crucifixion), by word or example tells his followers to keep the Saturday Sabbath.
If you're going to try to keep the law, you can't pick and choose which parts you want to keep. You MUST keep them ALL. If you're going to follow the Sabbath laws, you must also follow the tithing laws. And every single commandment, law, and ordinance given to the Jews.
James 2:10 - For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
You're either saved by grace or by the law. You can't mix them.
Galatians 2:21 - "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."
Heb 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
Heb 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.Note that the tenth part that Abraham gave to Melchisedec was considered a tithe and it was also charged to Levi.
Heb 7:9-10 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
I point you to Malachi 3:6-12...
6 "I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
7 Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you ask, 'How are we to return?'
8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings.
9 You are under a cursethe whole nation of youbecause you are robbing me.
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty.
12 "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.
Gal 3:17-18 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
There is a difference between "doctrine" and a collectively agreed upon "church policy" within the local congregation.
We don't practice the Sabbath. Our church policy is to "assemble the Saints" for the purposes stated in the New Testament.
We don't practice "tithing". Our church policy is to take "an offering" to support the costs associated with ministry.
These policies are set forth by the members of the congregation in our local body. They have to do with the physical workings of the church.
"Doctrines" per say, would be the code of beliefs, or teachings that deal on a spiritual plane concerning man and his spirit, God and His Spirit, and the relationship between the two.
These doctrines would cover things such as the doctrine of grace, doctrine of the Trinity, doctrine of salvation, doctrine of redemption, propitiation, sanctification, etc. These would be the things that Paul warned Timothy to protect, and to teach the Elders to protect.
Things such as the collection of gifts, dates and times for assembling, when and how often the Bread and Cup are partaken of, naming of the church, type or form of church government, location of and how large of building, color of the walls, etc., are not directly commanded in a specific way in the New Testament.
We have freedom to be ourselves and express our preferences, and not be mind numbed robots or slip into a ritualistic form of church. This helps the church from getting into the same-ol' same-ol' frame of mind. If the walls in your church being blue kind of lull you into lethargy, then paint them green! What a great God we have to know us so well!!!!
Heb 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood,
I’m not seeing where Christ (after his crucifixion), by word or example tells his followers to keep the Saturday Sabbath.
It is just like you said you can not have it both ways, if I can,t then they can,t either
You will not find any commandment to pay tithes. this is in an entirly different set of laws, I don,t know if it would be considerd an ordnance, maby so but there are dozens of passage,s about the sabaath even in the new testament.
you will find the ten commandments in exodus 20, verse 8 remember the sabaath and keep it holy, you will not find a commandment to pay tithes thithes there.
I believe that you may be considering the tithe law as one of the commandments, which it is not, It was a law given to the levites giving them the authority to collect tithes, a tax for the benefit of the state of isreal
I do not care about getting into the ordinances because they were abolished at Jesus,s death, but he did not abolish the ten commandents, he fulfilled them.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. and there are dozens more.
James ch 2 verseWhat doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
James 2:10 - For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
1 John
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
St john 14 verse15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
What were his Commandments
St john gospel
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Jesus also made the 10 commandments
If there were no commandments Or law could we be saved, I do not think so, ( I believe paul went into this fairly good but I do not have time right now to look it up )
Our admission of our sin is the first step to our salvation through faith and when we our throughly convicted of how terrible we really are ( speaking for my self ) then we ask for forgiveness and that’s when we are saved by his grace.
If not for the law, ( the cammandment ) we would not know that we had sinned, so we would not have any reason to ask for forgiveness so therefore would not be saved.
we have to keep Gods commandments in our hearts because we can not keep them bodily , if we say we can, we are calling God a liar because he says that everyone has sinned and come short of the glory of God.. And how can we keep Gods commandments in our hearts if we deny that they exist or say they have been changed
John ch 5 verse 2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love god, and keep his commandments.
If you believe in the Sunday sabaath, we do not have any disagreement, but I believe I can go with just resting on the sabaath, and then going to church on Saturday night or Sunday. ( ha, ha wishful thinking ) thanks a lot for the comment. and sorry this was so long.
Histroy not law.
Levites collected tithes , for israel.
hebrews 7 verse 11
If therefore perfection were by the levitical priesthood,( for under it the people received the law )
What futher need was there that another priest should rise after the order of melchisedec,and not be called after the order of Aaron.
I think another scripture explains it better, but the old law did not work, so we are no longer living by the law but faith in Gods son Jesus Christ.
Tithing was not one of the ten commandments but a tax the levites collected from the people of Israel
I will submit that everything God does works perfectly. What do you think God intended the law to do?
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Agreed. thanks
I do not know if you are agreeing with me or not, but that is how I see it too, I do not have time to guote any scripture right now, but seems you know them pretty good.
but my only comment would be that the law from the ten commandments according to paul is neccesary for our salvation because if not for the law how would we know we have sinned which is a transgression of the law, everyone has sinned and come short of the glory of God. so speaking for myself, if I had not read that adultery, for instance, was against the law. I would not have asked for forgiveness
and would not be saved
, in fact I would not even know Christ. so I think the law is spiretual and should be kept in our hearts. I do not believe that we can live by the letter of the law and I do not believe that it was intented.
You answered my original guestion.
if there were no law to the christian,s about the sabaath then what need would there be to change it to sunday, as many of them claim. Ok, i get it, thanks
Some parts I agree with, other parts I don’t. lol
I agree, the ONLY purpose of the law was to show us we were sinners. God knew from the beginning none of us could ever keep it.
Once we see what is required for us to be righteous in God’s eyes, we only have a couple of choices: Recognize we can never do all that’s required and turn to Christ, or deceive ourselves into thinking we can (and are) doing what’s required.
I do disagree that we can even keep it in our hearts.
Jeremiah 17:9 - “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Mark 7:21-23 - “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, (22) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness; (23) All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
Our hearts lie to us continually. “Ah, you’re not so bad!” “Well, you’re as good as THEY are, anyway!” “At least you’re not as bad as HE is!” “You’re a pretty good person!” “You’re TRYING and that’s what matters!” :\
:)
That sounds right to me.
I do not know what church you belong to or any thing about it, maybe you have never been to any other church,and thats fine and it would be very understandable that you do not see the point of my thread. but there are many churches that claim the sabaath was changed from sat to sun, if the bible says it, fine if it don,t still fine, I just don,t want people to start trying to change it, if they don,t like what the Bible says then why don,t they use something else? I just read the Bible to learn. thats it.
Thats right, but if someone ask you if it was sin to do these thing,s that god says not to do, you would no doubt say yes just like I would.
No matter how much you may want to do something that you know is sin, if you do it or not, no matter how many excuses you make , you still know that it is wrong because God said it was wrong. because you belong to God.
If you can find anything about paying tithes in the ten commandments, then I would have to agree.
Tell you what, Write something readable and can the humble pie, mea culpa, self effacement role playing
Then it seems to me you must have a lot of time to waste.
I point you to Malachi 3:6-12...
8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings.
It was not thithes and offerings that they was robbing God of as you can see in verse 5
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
Bring the whole tithe into the store house? God is calling in the tithes, there is a new covenant to come, the truth was not being preached under the old system, if our goverment called in the paper money, we would expect that there would have to be a different system to replace it.
The food in the store house was what Jesus Christ brought,
you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
The people of Israel were not free, they were at the mercy of the greedy public servants. read matthew ch 23 verse 4.
In fact the whole chapter of 23 is good reading to see what our Lord said to the scribes and pharisees.
This is predicting the true separation of church and state.
separation of church and state is important to most christian,s, can you imagine what it would be like if the church was run by the state.
I don,t think it would have been any different in Israel.
Such poor writing is disrespectful to the readers and to the author himself.
what does this
Act 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Stopped reading right there.
Such poor writing is disrespectful to the readers and to the author himself.
what does this
Act 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.