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Huh? Every covenant God made was with man. In some covenants man had a part -- this was a bilateral covenant. In some covenants man had no part -- this was a unilateral covenant. You're saying God made a covenant with Himself? No. This is not the difference. This is why obedience is not...

Actually @FHII was correct in how he posted Mathew 23:23. Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees and telling them that they tithed on every amount they received but they did not teach the most important things, like compassion for others,,,IOW, the pharisees taught the law but not the spirit of...

I agree with this. But do you believe tithing is a ceremonial Law or a moral Law? Can it be both??

I just have a feeling you don't have a family to raise or to help financially. And I'd like to say that God doesn't need money...people do. You mean 100% is available, in His name, to those in need.

Oh yeah.... And how about when you're telling someone something and stop in the middle because you can't remember why your mouth is moving? UFFA!

Ha! Forget if you were going up or down??? Half way up the stairs, I forget why I was going upstairs in the first place!

Here it is Stranger: You're speaking about the Mosaic Covenant and the New Covenant. Do this: Tell me the difference between the two Covenants? I mean the BASIC difference. IOW, do you believe the New Covenant declares we are not obligated to obey the law? If the answer is yes, explain...

What comfort is there to find in evil? I think we're speaking past each other due to language, as usual. To me evil is anything bad -- not just the evil that men do. You, I think, understand evil to be the evil that men do. Maybe the correct word is "bad"? Anything bad, evil, negative, is of...

Calvinism is not biblical. It does not teach the nature of God. Anyone who can serve a God such as the one you believe in must certainly be reading scripture incorrectly. Do you think it took J Calvin in 1,500 AD to figure out that God is an unloving and unjust God? No other theologian before...

You know you're getting old when: 1. You and your teeth don't sleep together. 2. Your try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any. 3. At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you're not eating cereal. 4. Your back goes out but you stay...

I agree. I know a priest that gives to a few poor families from his own income because the church has no money for this purpose. However, the church down in Rome is loaded and does give to charities...I can only repeat that we should take care of our own first...I see the poor he helps...

OK! :)

I absolutely agree that money is not the only thing we can give. We could share our clothes with the poor, our food.. and yes, most of all, our love; which is something we all need. Money is necessary too however; to pay bills, to buy medicine, pay doctors. Some end up living on the street...

In Genesis 14:20, Abram gave the King of Salem, Melchizedek, a 10th of all Abram had plundered from the Kings of the Valley of Siddim after he retrieved his nephew Lot from them and had taken all the goods the Kings had with them. We also read in Leviticus 23:22 that some grain in the fields...

Agreed. Tithing was a law.... Since we follow Jesus with a sincere heart and not only to follow laws, then we are also to give with the heart...be it little or be it a lot. Mathew 6:1-4 1“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward...

Well, I see Jesus Himself could tell you something and you would refuse to understand it. Belief occurs first and then obedience follows. Let's leave it at that. As to sin.... we disobey and that causes us to sin. I'd like to hear "yes, we must obey God".... since it's the truth. End. :)

I believe it's important to understand that evil comes from a being...from satan. @Uisdean has declared, two posts down from this, that evil is the absence of good. I don't agree. Evil is also not our making wrong choices. It's a real and true power. Some evil comes from humans, but not all...

I'm not good at Revelation; however, I don't believe the harlot is the CC. If THE anti-Christ will come from anywhere, it'll be from the secular world. Someone neutral who can get everyone to agree in a secular type of moralism -- if there is any left by then. The CC DID hold theology...

I like the above but want to make sure what you're saying.... Evil is not the absence of good. Evil is its own entity. Jesus freed many from possession of the evil ones,,,satan's cohorts. They are a power unto themselves...

I understand that it is not only a Catholic and Protestant problem,,,but a human problem in general. This does not excuse the CC, which is what we're discussing here. It's like saying stealing isn't so bad because murder wasn't commited. It's ALL bad. Just because Protestants do this too does...