[kritikos]

How much money, in your biblical and theological opinion, can this man make? Exact amounts too. No generalizations...no waffling.

Base it on Scripture too, please. This kind of determination ...that of setting limits on the income another man can make, especially when it is already established and governed by those whom this man serves...needs some kind of authority other than, "in my opinion."

Also, is this amount to be relative to culture and time? Or is it to be based on absolutes...like the rate of pay that existed in the time the Scripture was written?

And if it is relative; if it is to be culturally based, whose culture is it to be based upon? Mid-east (biblical lands) culture? Western culture? East coast western culture? Midwestern western culture?

For instance...should it be based on the culture in which the person ministers? Comparable pay to who are members of the congregation?

[Maccabee]

My problem is not with the amount of money a pastor can make, but with how he spends it. I should aslo make clear that I believe he should be LEAGALLY eligable for the tax breaks, but personally he should give more to God and his fellow man if he truly is a Christian minister.
Here's my scriptural support:
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth...but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven[good works and devotion]..." Matthew 6:19-20
"...A man ran up an knelt before him, and asked him 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherie eternal life'...'You know the commandments:"Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother."'...'Teacher,all these I have observed from my youth.'...'You lack one thing: go, sell what you have and give it to the poor,and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.'" Mark10:17-21