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Are you a legal expert? Is that legal advice you're offering? In actuality, that avatar image came from a website where anyone is instructed that the images are legally public domain, and that the public can therefore download their avatar images for forums and blogs. If you're a legal expert...

I have some music I've performed that I'd like to share with everyone in MP3 format. Would it be possible to increase my upload file size for that? SW

Nowhere does this show that wage earners in OT times were required to hand over to the Levites any portion of their wages as a tithe. Those versus deal not at all with the tithe. Besides, our modern system of church organizations are not comparable to the temple of the old covenant. There is no...

A preacher in the local area verbally berated anyone who would hand over any money to a charity that absorbs 60% of what's given to them for administrative costs. Visiting his office and pouring over the financials of his own organization, I found it interesting that his organization absorbs...

Because the practice reverses God's priorities in giving. How is handing over the primary portion of one's giving to institutionalized religion ones primary, largest portion giving rather than meet the needs of fellow blievers and others in need. Indeed? Doesn't it become an oxymoron...

Here's a couple of new ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCFVSStNvnA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4FScV6gK8 And some more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9NCQbOa4a4 http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/OCXJ4LosaKY/default.jpg?v=50173ad1

Well, maybe one of my videos will help you get over your sickness of money, Strat. :) I remastered each instrument of the music myself. It's a blessing to use it to glorify the Lord. SW

My question to Retrobyter remains unanswered. I asked for a scripture where wage earners were required to hand over a tithe of their wages to the Levites, and the silence remains most telling..... SW

So, are you trying to say that Abraham was no better than any renegade one may see warring on the plains of his day? Are you saying that he wasn't a cut above the run-of-the-mill vagabonds of his day...that he would EVER have considered property his own that he knew was not his in the first...

How does one live without money apart from sponging off others? SW That's sounds like you consider yourself seated on the Judgement Throne, in the place of Christ. That WOULD make you a liar. Perhaps you could clarify your words? SW

The "Abraham's tithe" dodge is a dead horse that's been dead for so long, beaten so often by so many ignorant people claiming to be followers of Christ, that the carcass is nothing but powder blowing in the winds of indifference to TRUTH. SW

Giving, as portrayed within scripture, is vastly different from most of what we see going on today. People claiming to be followers of Christ have historically handed over the primary (largest) portion of their "giving" in support of institutionalized religion's real estate and hirlings, some...

Can you show me where this is true? Please show me where wage earners, according the Law, were required to hand over 10% of their wages to the Levites. Got any references what speak directly to this, much less the poor? The Law required every tenth that passed under the rod be handed over, but...

You appear to have assumed that anyone here demanded that nothing be handed over to organized religion. I know I never said that. I simply stated that what is handed over to them should be a lower priority in the membership's giving. Our FIRST priority is our own families, each other's needs...

Liz, that was a good post. Most folks assume that because I speak out against handing over to organized religion the primary portion of one's giving, that I espouse abandoning institutionalism altogether. Not so. I encourage people to be members of those things if they feel that they need them...

I agree. Also, reading what I actually said, one would then notice that I said nothing about NOT supporting such things for those who reap benefit from such. I clearly stated what a travesty it is to hand over the primary portion of one's giving to such things, thus placing the meeting of needs...

Taxation in America and tithing to religious organizations have no real parallel so far as I can see. Is there a prallel that helps make your observation relevant to this discussion? Also, are you saying that institutionalized, religious organizations are somehow representative of the Church...

In all my study of the Bible, I have yet to find where we today are supposed to tithe. From where did that come? I've seen many thological tapestries woven together from disjointed and out-of-context verses, but nowhere do I see any requirement laid down upon wage-earning Israelites to hand...