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What’s the point of even becoming Mormon if one can have it done by proxy?

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They want your money. Now!

Well, duh, yeah.

I keep forgetting about that part for some reason.

I should always remember to follow the money trail when I can’t figure out any other reason why people do something.

I don’t have time to play today, but you guys are killing me. You wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes in the ancient Church headed up by Peter as the Lord’s appointed “funds gatherer”. They didn’t just live the law of tithing, a mere 10 percent, they lived a FULL 100 PERCENT, all things in common.

Perhaps we should step back and ask ourselves if we want to be like a faithful Barnabus, or rather withhold from the Lord like Ananias and Sapphira. They ended up dead, killed by God because they didn’t give everything to Peter. (Acts 4 and 5)
Why would God do such a thing? Were they not believing Christians? Why is money important to God in the first place? Could it be that obedience and faith is also as important as money to help the work progress as well as the soul progress?

My experience and testimony with tithing has been affirmed many many times over. The Lord truly does open the window of heaven when we have faith in Him. When you come to realize that sacrifice and obedience are closely tied to the blessings of heaven, you just might have a change of heart.

You’ve become so jaded with Mormonism, that you can’t look beyond it to see the gospel principles that are there. I have to laugh every time Romney's wealth, and Mormons in general are accused of being wealthy. How can this possibly be, when they give 10 percent and more toward their Church. How can such a "gullible" people have so much? Why are they so educated, and yet so "foolish"

I also have to laugh when the Church is accused of being so rich... perhaps having a lay ministry really goes along way to making the funds that are collected go toward worthwhile purposes instead of gobbled up in pastor salaries.

Again, it's about giving, sacrifice, and faith. The blessings come, they really do. I'll leave you with this scripture, and then I must run again. Have fun in the sandbox today, I can’t play anymore. Life is too busy... and short.

Malachi 3:8-12

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.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.