Scripture says that 10% of everything we make belongs to God.?

Question

And if we don't tithe the first 10% of whatever we make, we are robbing God. Malachi says the following:

Mal 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Mal 3:9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
Mal 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].

This is the only place in the Bible where God tells you to test Him. Do you tithe 10%, or are you robbing God. And if you don't tithe, is it because you don't trust God at His word.

I want to say that I'm a Christian, but I have not given God what I should. Maybe I haven't trusted God the way I should.

Answer 1

Darling, it is good that you point out this question and accepted your status.

However please note that "giving 10% of everything we make" is NOT the everything God require from us.

There are more and more things we have to accomplish in order please God. The 10 commandments should be the first in the list. You should give priority to fulfill God's will first.

What does it value if a person gives 10% or 50% of what he earns and in turn breaks the commandments/will of God?????

What will happen if the person is a drug dealer or earns black money and gives 10% of what he make?????

What does it cost if a person gives 10% of what he makes to God and ignores the needy?????

So just think about it.

All our lives and what we have are no doubt, belong to God. Our duty is to use them in the ways that are pleasant & acceptable to God.

Answer 2

Christians should tithe. Are you a Christian or not? I don't understand your statement about wanting to say it..........

Anyway, tithe if you are a Christian. God will not beat you over the head for not tithing in the past. He's not some kind of cosmic genie. He's God. Talk to Him. Pray and tell him how you are feeling.

PS ~ J T, do your homework. Find out where your money is going. Give to a reputible ministry that you trust. They do exsist.

Answer 3

Most ministers of these churches in this world (2 Cor. 11:3,7,12-15 and Rev. 2:9,13,24) would have you to believe that Christ spoke these words to you the members rather than His Disciples whom He was sending out to preach the gospel saying, "Kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt. 10:7). These words in Matthew 10:8, Christ is speaking to your minister and not, I repeat not you the member who receive the word.

This site seeks to give you the whole counsel of God concerning tithes and offerings under the New Covenant. Have you ever wonder why your minister will tell you the Old Covenant and its Holy days with its ordinances and regulations are done away with; yet these same ministers will demand that you give them a tithe (ten percent) of your earnings which was one of those same ordinances under the Old Covenant, which was done away with. For the Holy Spirit clearly says, "in speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first covenant obsolete" (Hebrews 8:13).

Today, these ministers who are preaching this blasphemous

Answer 4

a million. Nowhere in Scripture does it say that 10% of each and every thing we make belongs to God. 2. Malachi is writing to a Jewish target audience; those lower than the former covenant regulation, with regard to the tithe of the tithe the Levites were meant to deliver to the temple at Jerusalem for the clergymen who ministered there. Do you position income a storehouse? 3. No guy or church has the right to regulate Scripture or its software. this is the word of God in print. coaching human beings to tithe of their wages is to regulate Scripture and its software. .

Answer 5

If you actually check out the tithes in the old testament they were actually tithing close to 33 percent or more. They gave not only money but livestock and a portions of the crops in their fields.

Answer 6

When you don;t rob God your cursed, but if you give your 10% you will receive blessings you never dreamed of. You have to trust God when paying your tithes so you don't have to worry about being overwhelmed with bills because God will take care of you

"Yea I'm a Preacher and your supposed to be Christian"

Answer 7

Mosaic Law does not apply to Christians, only those who still observe the Mosaic Law which was only for the Jews and not Gentiles. Now God only wants you to give what you can afford to give as God loves a cheerful giver. He knows that people are having tough times during these lasts days that are critical, hard to deal with. If your church basicly demands tithes, then they are going against the will of God.

Answer 8

Tithe-ing is just another way for churches(non-profit Organizations) to gain profit.

If all these people are wrong about "God" imagine how much money has been wasted that could have gone to helping world causes?

So By all means ROB GOD.... It(god) has robbed millions of lives unforsakenly with Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods, etc etc.
Theists face these problems by praying and hoping. This is the wrong approach. The alaskan oil spill......ex. Let's Pray and Hope and see if all the oil pollution resolves itself? IT can't work that way... if we thought like that nothing would ever get accomplished for this earth.
If your "God" had a divine plan for you and wanted you to be in heaven, wouldn't he have just put you there in the first place?

If your "God" is true... he's done more destruction on earth than man have been born. I can't find bliss with god in heaven knowing that billions of souls of people i walked the earth with are being burned in hell.

something to think about, thanks for asking

Answer 9

the 10% is to help the poor you dont have to give it to a church. and it doesn't have to be money any thing you give another person counts. what does god need with money any way. when he owns you and i and the whole world. he can have what he wants when he wants it. what the author was trying to get across was we need to help one another. if you were to divide every thing among the people where every thing was even there would be no rich or poor no homeless and hungry every one on earth would be comfortable but sadly there are greedy people in this world who think they should have more then others and at the same time you have lazy people who dont believing in working and had rather be homeless then do a days work sadly i know a few people like this. it makes it hard on the true homeless and the the true poor. the ones who do not chose to be this way.

Answer 10

Actually the Bible doesn't say that 10% of all we make belongs to God. It says that everything belongs to God because He created it.

The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Psalms 24:1-2

He has only made us stewards of what really belongs to Him.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. Psalms 115:16

As to giving a tithe, that's an Old Testament law given to the Jews. We are no longer under law but grace. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't give a tithe, it just means that we don't give to the Lord like we are paying our taxes. Instead many Christians feel that a tithe is too little to give. But whatever you give it should be according to this New Testament standard.

"But this I say: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Let each one give just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound for every good work, just as it is written: "He has dispersed, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever." Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness; in everything being made rich to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving through us to God. Because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, 2 Corinthians 9:6-12

We give sacrificially as an act of faithful worship confident that our Father will meet us at the point of our needs as we seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.

"And my God will supply all your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we put on?' "For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matthew 6:31-33