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Originally Posted by FF_T_Warren
You should try to go to church as often as possible. It helps you learn more about god and in a good church you form a solid group of believers that hold each other accountable and help each other stay on track. When a sheep is led away from the pack, it is easily devoured. And satan uses this mindset that I can worship...on the water, on the deer stand,_insert place of hobby_...as a tool to get ahold of you and slowly change you. Before you know it, worshipping at the church regularly becomes a thing of the last and your living like the world. Can you worship at any of these places? Absolutely!!! But are you is the question, or are you putting your hobbies before god? And the bible teaches about tithing among many other things so the "church" is not a made up thing to create revenue
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Tithing in the bible is not at all what the church teaches about tithing.
Tithing is not mandated on the church. There are instances where tithing is mentioned in the New Testament, but Jesus is actually pointing out that they are still abiding by an old law while overlooking the main laws in place, I.e. Judgement, mercy and faith. Jesus mentioned tithing twice in this way and both times the tithe he spoke of was agrarian (herbs and spices specifically).
It's amazing to me that people actually give 10% of their income to a guy on a pulpit (who says the money is for God) because he has made them scared of burning in hell, all by manipulating or misinterpreting the words in a book. Read it yourself folks.
Church is an ancient equivalent to Facebook, people just copy, paste and believe - someone we know or like said it, so damnit it's gotta be true!
I'd bet most people who have shared stories from TheOnion are avid tithers.
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