Mark, I have to wonder why your post is so condescending and attacking, just because I showed in Bible that tithing is still a biblical principle, you took it to a personal level and didn't focus on the topic alone, you instead began attacking me personally and saying I am "funny" in a very condesceding manner. Jesus would never do that, so why do you? That shows a lot about a persons fruit and by your fruit I now know you.
You can always tell immature Christians from mature Christians when you debate them...immature Christians will always take the topic to a personal level and laugh at, or mock or try to put down the person they are debating, HOWEVER, spiritually mature Christians leave the personal attacks out of it and only focus on the topic.
Your post is biblical inaccurate and you have added meaning and words to Bible which are not there, and you have gone as far as adding words to Jesus' mouth, when the Lord has not spoken.
People who refuse to tithe and spend years in trying to disprove tithing, simply lack trust in God to provide for them and their families and instead they turn to MONEY to trust in to provide for them and their familes. That's why they cannot bring themselves to give away the first 10% because they will reason they cannot afford it, showing they worship and trust in money as NUMBER 1 and God as NUMBER 2. Bible says you cannot worship money and God. But then people will resort to self deception and tell themselves that they do not worship or trust in money, but on the other hand, they refuse to tithe, because deep deep down, they are afraid they will be left short on money and not be able to pay their bills.
Some people are so greedy and hate the idea of placing God as number 1 that they will refuse to tithe, so instead they make false excuses, contradict Scripture, in a desperate attempt to avoid tithing. But I tell you Mark, it's your choice, but you are robbing God in the process, Malachi chapter 3.
And I have a question for you Mark...if your Pastor works full time for the Church, to support you and your family and everyone else, yet he also needs to feed his family and pay living expenses to survive, then according to you Mark, how should he be paid a full time wage to work full time as a Pastor and feed his family?
And I came to realise why you have gone astray on this topic Mark and why you have twisted Scripture, it's because you admitted you have strayed OUTSIDE of the 66 books of Scripture to find your answers about tithing, which was a BIG MISTAKE by you. You have as a result, not trusted in the 66 books of Scripture to teach you in fullness about topics, and gone to sinners to explain it to you, using their own exegesis and as a result due to eisegesis, you have now read into Scripture something which doesn't appear in Scripture, but only appears in someone' else interpetation. You admitted you have turned to around 60 other books, outside of the 66 books, yet only Scripture was 100% inspired by God, and yet you turned to external books. I have seen this trategy happen often, we see it in CULTS too all the time, they turn to external books from the 66 books of Scripture and are led astray in doctrine.
May I encourage you Mark to come back to Scripture and Scripture alone and then you will learn the truth about tithing and other topics.
As for me, tithing is written in my heart by God the day I came to God 12 years ago. And I delight in tithing and it shows that God is my number 1 and not money. I wouldn't even need anyone to prove tithing is in Bible to me, because it's alrerady written in my heart and I have already seen enough evidence and proof from Jesus and Bible that New Covenant Christians should still tithe, especially in these last days, where money has become such a god and idol to so many people, we need tithing now more than ever, even among Christians, many trust in and worship money indirectly, and tithing is a way for them to place God number 1 again.
Many people like you Mark spend years and years, and reading external book after external book, in a desperate attempt to find justification to rob God and to not tithe, yet as a Christian, you should rather be looking for an excuse to tithe, and not the other way around.
Malachi 3:8-10 "Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ "In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
God bless.