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Real wealth should never be measured in money or possessions.In my perspective, I believe that our wealth is not measured by money or our ability to pay the bills, in fact it is measured by the degree of happiness and satisfaction you have towards life,positive personal relationships, having a happy and healthy family, For example, I think that a poor healthy happy family is much wealthier. Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. He needs real wealth, in the form of a fishing rod, a compass, an outboard motor with gas, and a female companion. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” —unknown. “The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.” —Sherrilyn Kenyon. “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” —R. Buckminster Fuller.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The real measure of.
Speech on on real wealth is not measured in money and possession Explanation: Real wealth of Individual can never be measured in terms of property, money or materialistic things. In today's world real money is health and moral values of a person. 21st century has completely eroded among people where everyone became greedy for wealth.

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This Complete Tithing Study Exposes The Corrupt Doctrine Of Mandated Tithing
Which Has Become The Golden Calf Of The Modern Church

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A personal note
Over the years, I have seen the doctrines regarding money and giving get corrupted beyond belief. The Apostles, the elders and the brethren in Jerusalem wrote the Gentiles saying,

'We have heard that certain people which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised, AND KEEP THE LAW; to whom we gave NO SUCH COMMANDMENT...' [Acts 15:1 and Acts 15:24-29 in part].

Despite this crystal clear dialogue and MANY other scriptures stating Law keeping by Gentiles is not commanded, 2,000 years later men are still, 'troubling people with words and subverting their souls.' Get your Bibles, try to put your bias aside and let's see what the Bible REALLY says about this issue.
This document exposes mandated tithing, corrupt teaching and manipulated, guilt driven giving. The sound Biblical principle that churches and ministers can be supported by those they serve is not changed, destroyed or diminished by this document. So, if you are just cheap and don't want to give, this article is NOT for you! However, if you need freedom from mandated tithing and other forms of manipulated, guilt driven giving, this article IS for you.

This study last updated: 11/29/2013

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1. Before The Law Tithing Was Voluntary, Not A God Given Command Or A Routine Practice

The 2 examples of pre-law tithing in Genesis were one time events, VOLUNTARY and involved more than money. Abraham's example was a one-time tithe of the spoils of war [Hebrews 7:2, Genesis 14:20]. Since Abraham had taken a vow not to personally take spoils of this war [Genesis 14:22-24], Abraham apparently tithed what belonged to others or would soon belong to others.

There is nothing in scripture that says Abraham tithed his personal income or wealth at any time.

Abraham received a blessing and then gave a tithe, apparently out of social duty or custom. Some scholars say tithing was a social mandate during this time. Either way it is irrelevant because Abraham did NOT have a God given commandment to give tithes. [Genesis 14 & Hebrews 7:1] Jacob's single example of tithing was promised by Jacob to God IF God did something and scripture remains unclear if Jacob ever followed through. [Genesis 28:22] Either way, both examples make clear tithing before the law was voluntary. Pre-law giving of tithes was NOT commanded by God. Since scripture only records two incidents of voluntary pre-law tithing, it is clear tithing was not a routine pre-law practice.

Also, Jacob conditionally promised to tithe what he fully owned and earned. Therefore, Jacob intended to tithe profits. Profits are what is fully owned, non-credit or lien based goods, property or money. In other words, profits are what is left AFTER all other obligations [vows, oaths, contracts etc.] are met. This is important and profits will be discussed later. Also take note of the following scriptures showing the voluntary nature of pre-law giving. [Exodus 35:5, Exodus 35:21, Exodus 35:22, Exodus 35:24, Exodus 35:29]

Those seeking to make tithing strictly money and income based, mandatory and routine because tithing was 'before the law' are not teaching what tithing was 'before the law.'

Some mandated tithing teachers use scriptures that state one is to BRING the tithe rather than GIVE the tithe to prove that tithing is mandatory - meaning it is a command TO BRING verses a voluntary act TO GIVE. This is a weak argument. We shall soon see, law tithing was mandatory, but the scriptures that mention PRE-LAW tithing say the tithe was GIVEN. Also see part 16 for some thoughts on Melchizedek and further discussion of pre-law tithing.

2. Tithing Was Never Money Or Income Based. Tithing Was Land Based

If two farmers had crops of 10 carrots each, they would both be obligated to tithe one carrot. Under the agrarian (land based) tithing system it didn't matter If one sold the remaining 9 carrots for $5 and the other sold his remaining 9 carrots for $10. The tithe of the harvest was unrelated to the income of the harvest. Plain and simple - THE TITHE WAS NOT 10% OF INCOME, it was 10% of the harvest. The tithe was agrarian which means BASED ON THE LAND.

The Jews under the law were NOT obligated to give 10% of their incomes! This simple fact alone is enough to destroy the unscriptural doctrine that God DEMANDS you pay 10% of your income or be cursed.

Money was rarely, if ever, the thing tithed in the Bible. [Nehemiah 13:10-13] To be truly biblical, tithing was NOT based on your income or money AT ALL! [Deuteronomy 14:22-23, Deuteronomy 18:1-5, Deuteronomy 26:12 (See Deep Study on this verse), Nehemiah 10:38-39, Nehemiah 12:44, Leviticus 27:30-33, Joshua 13:14] Pre-law tithing was voluntary and profit based and law tithing was mandated and land based (agrarian). Agrarian means 'of the land,' and agrarian tithing was based on what you were able to produce from the land, plants or livestock.

During the period of the Mosaic Law, God commanded people bring a tenth of what they produced from the land regardless of the income they received from it. Tithing wasn't income based BEFORE OR AFTER the law and the tithe was NOT money!

In fact, it was against the law to sell the tithe. One was to bring the PRODUCT, not what the product was worth. [Leviticus. 27:28] There are many references to tithing the 'increase' [Example: Deuteronomy 14:22 using the Hebrew tbuw'ah] which literally means fruit or produce and in the tithing verses EATING the tithe is often referred to. Note in Nehemiah 13:10, the Levites went to THE FIELD to replace missing tithes. During the time of agrarian law tithing bartering was common but there were also MONEY SYSTEMS in place. [Genesis 23:15-16 and Genesis 42:25, Jeremiah 32:9-11, Deuteronomy 14:25 and Malachi 3:5] Yet the tithe remained agrarian (land based).

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According to the Douglas/Tenney NIV Bible Dictionary Leviticus 27:31 makes clear a penalty of 20% of the tithe was exacted from one who redeemed (exchanged for money) his tithes and refused to use the money to pay for a substitute. Again,

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