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The Contending Views on Tithes Part 2

This argument has many refutability but not contradictions from the new testament, which states every believer, in simple terms Christians are royal priesthood holy nations, this has updated our status as bonafide titles to work and claim any blessings that attached to righteousness which not allocated to specific persons, unless the persons are behind the fences of our belief.  In a normal case, when people invest in something and there are dividends of sanity of transformation, we do not pay much attention to the pains associated with paying but if not, then we begin to question the relevance.  When people pay their tithes and they end up seeing rotten and wickedness in their society. When we invest it into cement structures while children migrate from rural areas and come to urban areas to beg and sleep on the streets and later become arm robbers, then end up in prisons.  We, again contribute to build prison cells as an expansion to contain them or some migrate to for...

The Contending Views on Tithes Part 1

Christians must learn to understand the scriptures on their essence and application. Not to fall victims of manipulation of scriptures for personal satisfaction, that will make the faith loses its relevance.  We have lived beyond what is called "sacrilege" to question belief. Matthew 23:23 does not support tithing because Jesus Christ was referring to Pharisees who were under the law during his ministry which does not mean he accepted tithing.  Mat. 23:23 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former".    It was reference he made to these Pharisees who were enjoying this privilege with hypocrisy and that is his main reasons to come and correct those errors, if not then what is the essence of his coming.  We who are now enjoying his ...

Our lenses through religion

Per the standard of believing system of my country and the continent, I think am becoming faithless as Jesus Christ became. Who did not hope for things to happen but came in human forms to turn things around for humanity.  New faith believes others can go hungry, distitutes, slaves to others, broken lives, but not necessary to us, so far as we are satisfied with our gifts from others, we are on course.   It will promise them, things they should hope for are things not seen are the jets for the sky to heaven, anyone who seeks life of balance of pies are on astray paths or not in the insitu of salvation. The devil is having his field days always in every situation, even if mosquito infused in us its plasmodium, when we create the necessary environment for it to grow, some under the billboards of our crusades or the culvert under or near our supreme edifice.  We boxed our power source that we claim we have over the devil because our faith is becoming illusory, while...