How do unbelievers think that any Christians at Y.A. would financially benefit from sharing God's Word?

Question

I keep seeing this accusation thrown up to Christians as an excuse not to believe the Bible on any given Scriptural topic.
Part 2 of my question: What is going on in organized or non-denominational religion if anything to promote this idea or is it competely unfounded? I really would like to know if this is just a lame excuse or if most organized churches are more about begging money for a church building or minister or some such? I do not worship mammon myself and have no idea if any responder here has any money to give to any church and I don't belong to an organization with head-quarters of anykind. Would unbelievers not be more interested in attending a church where the giving was love inspired without pressure instead of on old covenant law bondage? (Figure that one out yourself!)

Endora, this may likely be the only time we come close to agreeing so pay REAL CLOSE ATTENTION! Giving according to scriptures under NEW COVENANT beleifs, (after Christ died on the CROSS) is NOT REQUIRED BY LAW but LOVING GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF IS. Christ said those were the two most important commandments. That said, I don't begrudge giving money for missionaries, the light bill, those wonderful amenities of heating, cooling, indoor plumbing, paper towels and toilet paper, and to support the hard working evangelist or teacher who devotes full time to the study and teaching of sound doctrine from God's Word to edify the saints. Poor persons will NOT go to hell for not having money to give to someone who is devouring widows houses and not willing to distribute to the necessities of the saints. You still haven't acknowledged you get the gospel free of covetousness or greed as motives here at Y.A.!

So Boxer, basically you're saying your ideas come from T.V. ministers and the doctrine of the tithe. Again, I am too poor to give 10%, I do not have any ties to ministers who would in any way profit from your offerings of 10% and I am against a legalistic 10% for the reasons stated above. That carnal ordinance was done away with on the Cross! The gospel is free of charge where I attend both to me and from me here at Y.A. Thanks for sharing what I suspected all along that people would be more open to the gospel if it was centered more around loving sinners than the offering plate. I've felt the same way for years although I've been persecuted for saying so.

Answer 1

Happy: Great question. In spite of your reasoning, there are people out there, who enjoy stirring up controversy and just love to present senseless, irrational statements about people, their beliefs, or just plainly, bashing others. I have posted irrefutable proof countering evolution in my answers based on both, the evolution biologists and scientists to answer questions with astounding, well-researched proof. But, there are people determined to hold to their pointless, baseless, accusations and will continue to infect this Y.A. site with their venom. To those of an evil mind, ALL things are evil. They try to come across as intellectuals but fail in their closed-minded stubbornness to learn. So; as far as, they are concerned, it is open season on Christians and no amount of reason nor proof will suffice. Those convinced against their will ... are of the same mind still !!!

Answer 2

Most of the atheists think that the Christians on Y!A are dupes of religion. It is not the victims of the religions that are making the money but their religious leaders. The greed displayed by most of these organizations is phenomenal. Try looking at Benny Hinns income, Kent Hovind (Dr. Dino) just got sentenced to 288 years for evading taxes on a personal income of well over one million dollars per year. Tell me how much the Mega Churches bring in, or Jerry Falwell's income. The Churches unlike Charities do not need to show their books, and they don't. Trinity network is a huge profit machine as well as a prophet machine. Religion world wide is a business of about three trillion dollars a year. About three billion in that can be verified just inside the USA. Next time you are watching a TV crusadfe take a look at how much they want for faith and seed donations. Think about the percentage of US Christians who are into this tithing thing. ten percent of every dollar they earn. Tithing is usually counted as being on pretax earnings, God gets his cut first.
Y!A Christians profiting from spreading the word? No. The people instructing them to spread the word profiting from it? Well golly gee, let me wonder if that could possibly be!

Answer 3

yes, a great many churches are viewed as being on membership drives to increase the amount of offerings in the plate, but truth be told, every church tells you that the giving is love inspired while implying in other ways that it is required--it is one reason among many why the church has become so ugly and unpopular