Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe?

# 5: This is a continuation of # 4. In # 4, I highlighted John’s robust rebuttal to my suggestion that Jesus really does hate the evangelical tithe. My last words of # 4: In the next article, # 5, I will respond to John’s three contentions. So here it goes….

One: Jesus Himself today receives the evangelical’s tenth.

Jesus does no such thing. John quotes from the NKJV, Heb. 7:8: “Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them.” Then John writes, “This verse is written in the present time frame. Who is he who lives?” The suggestion is “he who lives” must be Jesus. In other words, Jesus today is still receiving tithes. John apparently didn’t notice that the “h” in “he” is not capitalized, and therefore, according to the NKJV, does not reference Jesus. (“he” references Melchizedek.) This same ‘mistake’ has been made by many salaried proponents of the evangelical tithe over past decades.  

Two: Quote: “Jesus did not deactivate the law but expanded it.”

Question: WHEN did Jesus expand the law!? And why!? Romans 6:14: “You are not under law but under grace.”

Three: Faithfulness to Malachi 3:10-18will “activate the Lord of the Armies of God…. on our own personal behalf.”

John, like every tithe-teacher, is not a New Testament christian (one who endeavours to live by New Testament writings). Jesus never taught tithing. Nor did Paul or any other apostle. That should make the evangelical thoroughly suspicious. If there was one verse verifying that awful tithe it would be highlighted in neon lights in every church throughout evangelicalism. (Pardon the hyperbole.)