The similarities between the labeled "Christian" community of today and the organization of the Jews when Jesus walked planet Earth 2,000 years ago are to me and probably a few others blatant. But... there are apparently a whole lot of blind people in Christendom today. They are so busy with their "I'm right and you're wrong" scenarios or in their giving their first attentions to things like "that doctrine will send you to a devil's hell" that their eyes and ears are closed to what Jesus said and is saying. They are like those many who walked with him no more as they with the Pharisees of old are looking to the tithing of mint and rue and all manner of herbs... and so forth:
"But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." Luke 11:42
Someone will probably now attempt explain what that tithing is as the carnal mind reads it and for love they will describe the "tough love" which they teach and preach and practice while they leave undone what Jesus really was and is. Does anyone really understand why Jesus wept? Did he not clarify it here for those with ears to hear?
"But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children." Luke 23:28
But... so many will continue with their tithing of all of those things, still giving only a tenth or less of what they do give to God instead of understanding and striving to apply what Paul explained here:
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." Rom 12:1-3