Your tithe doesn't have to go to the church

[tango]

The laws from Moses we don't have to keep they said in Acts. Just no blood, suffocated and uncleanness. But the moral law isn't done away, like don't murder, the 10 commandments. Love your neighbour as yourself. Don't shut your heart if you see a brother w out clothes or food is N.T. too.
And the rich ones who didn't pay the laborers who were getting their harvest in got a warning.
They say tithes is from before the law cause Abraham did it too and then its a principle from God. Jesus said about the pharisees tithing: they had to love their neighbour and not neglect tithing and stuff, but they were only tithing, yet robbing from the widows, which you see some wealthy pastors do too.
I don't really care if you have to tithe or not. Ever since I started to tithe I got out of financial problems myself and I find it antisocial to keep it all for myself and let my ex rot. Yet if I go to the church from my mom where the pastor has money enough, I don't even give an offering.

Even so, you still need to know where to draw the line. How do we conclude that cutting the edges of our beards is now acceptable but adultery is not, for example?

I broadly agree with you, but that doesn't determine a means to draw the line between which OT requirements still apply and which do not.

 

[Imalive]

Even so, you still need to know where to draw the line. How do we conclude that cutting the edges of our beards is now acceptable but adultery is not, for example?

I broadly agree with you, but that doesn't determine a means to draw the line between which OT requirements still apply and which do not.

Adultery is uncleanness and hate of your neighbour. Love your neighbour is N.T. A beard looks ugly so that needs to be shaved LOL.

 

[tango]

Adultery is uncleanness and hate of your neighbour. Love your neighbour is N.T. A beard looks ugly so that needs to be shaved LOL.

But under the OT law you weren't allowed to shave the edges of your beard, however ugly it got

Adultery as hate? Perhaps if an affair is covert, although in this day and age if everybody is consenting to an "open marriage" there isn't the same kind of deceit going on as if one party is in the dark. Yet I don't know that I'd say an open marriage is acceptable, Scripturally speaking.

 

[NewCreation435]

It says that all foods are lawful in the New, that does not mean that they are wise or healthy choices. There was a reason for unclean foods that today is backed up by science. Sure we can cook them to kill bacteria but it does not kill what it can do to your body.

That's true. The Lord is clear very early on that they weren't to eat meat with the blood still in it. That still makes sense today even if it isn't a command. Knowing what we know now it seems more like common sense to me.

 

[atpollard]

Even so, you still need to know where to draw the line. How do we conclude that cutting the edges of our beards is now acceptable but adultery is not, for example?

I broadly agree with you, but that doesn't determine a means to draw the line between which OT requirements still apply and which do not.

The First Jerusalem Council established the OT laws that are applicable to the gentile saints.

Acts 15:28-29 NASB
28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:
29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

Jesus himself established the two moral commandments for New Testament saints ...

Matthew 22:37-39 NASB
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

 

[tango]

The First Jerusalem Council established the OT laws that are applicable to the gentile saints.

Acts 15:28-29 NASB
28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:
29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

Jesus himself established the two moral commandments for New Testament saints ...

Matthew 22:37-39 NASB
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

True, but 1Co8 paints a different picture where meat sacrificed to idols is concerned.

 

[tango]

The First Jerusalem Council established the OT laws that are applicable to the gentile saints.

Acts 15:28-29 NASB
28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:
29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

Jesus himself established the two moral commandments for New Testament saints ...

Matthew 22:37-39 NASB
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

True, but 1Co8 paints a different picture where meat sacrificed to idols is concerned.