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If it's from or in the Bible, its a bunch of insanity bullshit from extremely unintelligent people who were also extremely impressionable in believing that inanimate objects and imaginary beings exist. If there is a ritual, it's all about oppression of some group.

All you are babbling about is apologetics. You are not seeing the effects of Forced Indoctrination on the young, the burning in of false precepts. You are wrong about "all these books" being ancient. The Quran is not ancient. Mohammad was illiterate and what he passed on was by word of mouth. The Quran wasn't written until 695 AD, a half century after Mohammad died. It wasn't written in a vacuum. The Jew-Book "holy bible" had been in circulation in the Middle East for 3 centuries by that time. The reason the Jew-Book "holy bible" and the Quran are still around is due to Forced Indoctrination, brain-washing through extortion. It should never be forgotten in these modern times that the Vatican put Galileo under solitary confinement house arrest and forced him to recant his findings or be burned at the stake. Copernicus stated he waited to publish until his old age was fear of the Vatican branding him a "heretic" and blasphemer. The Jew-Book "holy bible" and the Quran are still major forces in the 21st Religious Century because of the extortion and politics of fear being used, along with the carrot-and-stick reward of a "heaven" after-life. Karl Marx wasn't wrong when he said religion is the opiate of the masses.

You might as well come out of the atheist closet.SMH.

We married in 1983. We bought a house, we sent both our kids to university. We drove old cars. We never ran out of food. We did give to the church but never 10%. It was what we could afford to give without going broke. Then I asked the church for some of the money back so we could send our kids to university. Of course they said no. And of course I stopped giving. All this to say God loved me and still blesses us today. Oh by the way, I wasn’t going to send my wife to work so the church would survive I believe that would be using my wife to support another man, a pastor

Really hoping people can be open minded as they listen to this.

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Friend, I hear you. As I've reported, I'm not a Christian but I do believe in God, especially when you start talking about equating God to the entirety of the universe. Thank you for you content!

God doesn’t want your money, God doesn’t need your money. However, it is misleading to say that the Bible doesn’t call you to tithe. The word tithe literally translates to 10 percent or one tenth. God will not judge you if you don’t tithe but you COULD possibly be missing out on a blessing while on this earth. God even says if you give back ten percent he will bless you. God says “test me in this.” I believe you and God know what you can give, especially if you’re in a position of wealth. The wealth you have was given to you by God so why not give it back and bless the people that can’t eat or feed their children.

Tithing is not impossible, I know scores who tithe.. Though it is not ordered in the NT.

Get a shave, clean yourself up pastor

Will you please just be quiet?....enjoy the holiday with gratefulness in your heart and with family and just SHUT IT.This sounds like what a "woke" pastor if you are one would say....

Really! You are not a pastor or a man of God!

Religion is putting one's faith in ignorance. Nobody needs a weekly book club to be a decent person who contributes to human flourishing.

The scheme of the churches ( Pastors getting rich) I left the church 10 years ago and I go to help people who are in need and God bless me more than I used to be in church.

Remember how happy Jesus was with the poor widow? Who gave everything? We are called to give and called to trust.

My favorite is when they say not only should it be 10%, but of gross, not net. So they're trying to take a bigger cut by calculating it on the full amount the government has already taken THEIR cut from. What a racket.

Tithing is legalism. It’s the heretical prosperity gospel. Giving as we can, however, is biblical. There is no minimum. Years ago, when I had no money to give, I gave the church hours upon hours of my time, each and every week.

Good for you being a skeptic and a pastor! I'm a single mom of a teenage boy. I can't even afford car insurance. If I have to break the law everyday going to work, I'm quite certain God, who provides for widows and orphans, does NOT need or want me to tithe.

I suppose that originally part of that money in the Bible would have been used to give to the poor.

Gordon Robertson / 700 Club does the same thing. Instead of asking viewers to GIVE, he always uses the word "tithe" to manipulate through fear and guilt! (Gordon is reportedly worth $50 million.) Tithing was NEVER about money, it was about crops and cattle. So tithing is NOT for believers today.

Some points on the physics: 1) Spacetime only has one time dimension, so not all spatial configurations are realized simultaneously (in a classical sense). 2) In quantum theory all possible configurations do contribute to the probability of an observed future, but that's to do with quantum and not spacetime. 3) The "10 dimensions" are a property of string theory, not quantum theory. 4) However when you get to 3:00 you make a valid statement that doesn't require the previous part of the video, but the fact that God doesn't experience duration is an aspect of ancient Christian theology. St. John Damascene and Aristotle deduced this without quantum theory. However, to make a non-physics point that people often overlook. If the Christian God exists, he is a God that will fix what he has broken and ensure not only justice but mercy. That's contained in the concept, so it doesn't make sense to criticize the concept by saying that in this temporal domain we observe apparent suffering. The gospel is that we can give everything and sacrifice everything and God will restore us. It's not that we should bury our money rather than invest it fully. Take risks in this life, carry a cross, and suffer. Criticisms that God would not want people to have suffering and challenges are completely beside the point. This life would not be necessary if not for the challenges. Anyone reading this - please visit an Orthodox Church and do not base your faith on flights of fancy and speculative reasoning.

Woke agenda.

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I grew up going to a church that passed around the collection plate but I don't recall them ever saying an amount. And we couldn't put money in because we had to go to the church to get boxes of food. My parents were getting assistance from fellow churchgoers in order to pay our rent. I remember reading verses of the widow who gave all she had and Jesus saying she gave more than all the rich people who gave what they wouldn't miss. And I didn't see that as a story talking about money, because Jesus rarely focused on money itself, he was often talking about the deeper meaning behind actions. It was always implied that The religious people of his day often either completely missed the deeper meaning behind their beliefs in favor of tradition, or purposely twisted them to suit their own needs. We see that a lot today. That's why I consider myself an anti-theist now. I'm not against the good Christians who just want to have their faith. But I am against the ones who want to rule this country, who weaponize the faith of the gullible and desperate.

But how are they going to buy their private jets?

Is,that the prosperity church? Who prospers Joel Osteen? Because it sure isn't me!!

Exvangelical and current neopagan here. Tithing is all over the Old Testament, and in the New Testament, Jesus commended a destitute woman for giving all her income to the synagogue. Ananias and Saphira were unalived by God himself for withholding tithes. Prosperity gospel preachers are notorious for using tithes to fund their lavish lifestyles, and Christian-inspired cults do the same. These abuses should be called out and condemned. But to claim tithing isn't Biblical is ridiculous to the point of parody.

I no longer attend a megachurch near me whose pastor said that if we give, we'll get back far more - giving to the church was supposed to equate to financial prosperity. And he held himself up as the example, wearing $150 shirts and driving an $80,000 truck, living in a $1.5 million dollar home.

I really love this, thanks for the podcast!

Have prayed that for nearly 70 years-- and has always been a comfort to me!!!

EVERYTHING in the bible is used to manipulate people. it's a poisonous tome that nobody should take advice from.

I was a kid when i went to Catholic Church, but i remember our church was the kind to say only give what you can and giving none is ok or whatever. But they would pass a basket all around at the end of service. And even at 8 years old i could tell it was super awkward to pass and put in nothing. Im sure those people felt super judged and caused others to put in what they couldn't.

Years ago, before I knew better, I went to a church "food bank," that wasn't going to let me have the expired food unless I said the weird evangelical prayer (I think it's the "sinner's prayer," or something) that is also, not in the Bible. It's the manipulation for me. That clear, and deliberate withholding of resources to engender a sense of obligation. I swallowed my pride and said the thing, but all it engendered in my heart was disgust for this predatory behavior. Also this MF who was coercing me into saying his dumb prayer also wouldn't stop touching my leg, and my shoulder, with zero concern for my consent, or discomfort. I would rather starve than go to a church for "help."

Thanks dude for atleast admitting it and stop doing it!

Muslims pay zakat but Quran states you can’t give it to the mosques. It has to go direct to people in need

Muslims pay zakat but Quran states you can’t give it to the mosques. It has to go direct to people in need

The bigger question is this: is tithing required for salvation? Can you buy your way into heaven in any manner? The answer is no. So f tithing. You don't need to do it. According to Jesus though you should give everything you have to the poor. It's funny how Jesus never said anything about tithing, but instead said give everything to the poor.

Especially now when church and state are separate, at least for now, we are paying taxes separately so 10% on top 9f that is possible.

New subscriber here. Good biblical teaching is weirdly hard to find. Keep it up, Pastor.

This is why I love my church. Every time I’ve asked how much I should give the answer is “give anything between $0 and what you can afford without hurting your needs.” So there were many years I gave 0 but gave my time also. It incrementally got higher based on my income and situation. I have taken many people into my home and supported them financially. My church knew and supported me. As it should be.

I am small, my heart is pure, no one will live in it, only Jesus alone, Amen. The prayer i was taught when I was younger but we said the prayer in our native language.

Our WORKS donsent get us into Haven,belivig in Jesus and His SACRIFICE He did for us all is the ONLY way to spending eternity with Jesus, cuz THATS Haven. NOT by Our works but because Jesus

It is pretty metal and also part of lyrics in Metallica song Enter Sandman.

I pray a better one for night "I adore you God, and I love you, I thank you for having created me, and for making me a Christian, forgive me for the evils I had done, in this day, and if I have done some good, take it, may your grace be always with me and all my beloved ones, Amen.

Technically the Bible supports tithing since Jesus said give to whoever asks of you

I used to believe and teach this back in the late 80's-early 90's. Then in '95, I set out to PROVE that tithing was a NT command by reading from Acts through Revelation. Oddly enough, the ONLY TIME the tithe is spoken of in any of those books is in Hebrews 7, where Paul is explaining through the story of Abraham giving a tenth of the spoils to Melchizedek how wonderful it is that Jesus is "a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek". All giving is to be voluntary, the amount being what the giver can do cheerfully. (2 Cor 8-9)

Wait until you find out there's not a single religion that won't make you feel like a sucker, when you find out the truth.

Tithing is biblical in the O.T. God instructed Israel to tithe to support the levi's since they had no inheritance. God doe not instruct tithing in the N.T. All giving in the N.T. is free will. 2 Cor 9:7. The title of this video is in correct.

I always heard the argument used by Paul, that the worker is worthy of his wages