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To: Grig; MHGinTN

It is no mans business what your tithes/offerings/alms are.
Why are members reminded to tithe, if it is such an important part of lds.
Can you source the commandment that says you are required to tithe?
The bottom line is that lds revolve their tithing/giving around what some guy says should happen and how if you don’t tithe you are unworthy, where as Christian tithing revolves around God and worship.


96 posted on 11/10/2011 1:01:22 PM PST by svcw
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To: svcw

When God calls a man to be Bishop, it becomes part of his duty to administer tithing for his ward.

Members are reminded and encouraged to keep all the commandments BECAUSE they are important. Do you really thing that being silent about important things will result in more people faithfully doing those things you never talk about?

Malachi 3
8 ¶Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

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.

11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

D&C 119
4 And after that, those who have thus been tithed shall pay one-tenth of all their interest annually; and this shall be a standing law unto them...

The bottom line for us is that tithing revolves around obedience to the commandments of God, to whom we owe EVERYTHING we have, faith in his promises, and a love for the things of God more than the things of the world.


99 posted on 11/10/2011 2:04:43 PM PST by Grig
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