Paying off God?

Question

Some people have said that you should give God a certain percentage of your wages to get his blessing in full but i cannot seem to figure out what God needs with my money.
This to me seems like i am paying God for his services and that seems wrong to me.
Shouldnt God just be happy with my faith?
Whatever i give is supposed to be returned to me ten fold or something like that but i dont think its right so i dont pay God.
Am i wrong?

Pay for utilities? is that what i would be doing if i gave money to the church?
Please..........I can worship outside in the big old world for free. I am going to let God decide my fate not my pocket book!

Answer 1

too right !!!!!
what use is money in the etherical!!!

it could be said yo give money to help others
this is only true when it does so directly
when its spent on the church you attend and give the cash too
this seems far more of a selfish act.
anyway you do not have to pay money by way of recieving blessings.
no creator would ever ask you too.
a human twisting the words might

Answer 2

Tithing is 10% of your income. It isn't paying off God. Tithing is very important if you want to be a member of a church. You can be a regular and not a member.If you choose not to become a menber, you will have no say so when it comes to meetings and how to spend the money that is brought into the church. IE: missionaries, scholarships,new carpeting, having a dinner catered,pastors raise,whether to buy a new church van, etc. You should "Thank God for the members." They are the one's who keep the church going.If it were not for their dedication the church would have to close up it's doors.

Answer 3

The act of tithing is a form of worship. It ALL belongs to Him. Giving back a percentage is our way of giving thanks.

Jesus told the rich man to sell all he had and give it to the poor. (Luke 18:22) He did so to test the man's heart. Unfortunately the man failed. Where do you place your trust?

Matthew 6:24 (NLT)
"No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Answer 4

I think it's kind of along the lines of "You get what you give" or "In order to keep what you have, you must give it away"

In other words, to be truly grateful for what you have, you must give freely to those who have not.

If your church has been central to your faith, and you are a better person because of it, then tithing shouldn't be a second thought! That money ensures not only that the church will be there for you tomorrow (paying the mortgage, utility bills, and repair/maintenance costs), but that the kind of faith instilled in you will be available to others too.

Faith is priceless, but not free.

Answer 5

It takes money to run a religion
Pay for the building and upkeep and so on.
As far as giving to the church i feel the example Jesus use , the widows might sums it up quite well.
Give what you can or feel comfortable with , I don't know anywhere in the bible where it sets out a exact percentage

Answer 6

Yes you are wrong, You are to pay 10% of your income as tithes, to help support your storehouse(Church), The church has to have money to pay bills as electric, water, & so on, let's say you go to church, You would expect that church to have a restroom, well someone has to pay for that water, But now concerning these churches that preach on tithing every service & they preach more about money then they do God such as these TV evangelists, Then they have went beyond what God has told them

Answer 7

God doesnt need any monitary things of this earth.. After all he created everything on this earth..
I think who ever started that just wants money for his church and claims its for God to get you to empty your pockets more.
Now that doesnt mean you cant be generous in your charity or support of a church if you wish.. After all, the church has to pay for electricity etc..

Answer 8

Well, if you're Catholic, the church needs your tithings to pay off the billions in fines it received for raping young children. (E.g. Insurance only pays for half of the latest $600 million fine that was recently levied against the church: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/14/church.abuse.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories )

From the very beginning of the Bible, God has asked for sacrifices and offerings. Not much has changed in the past 3-4,000 years....

"The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.” (Exodus 34:19-20)

If God existed as an all-powerful being, He would not need the money that faithful believers donate to their churches.
— Rev. Donald Morgan

I DO want your money, because God wants your money!
— Reverend Larry, from the movie, Repo_Man

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son.
— A A Allen - American faith healer

Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
— Robert G. Ingersoll

The churches can well afford to pay fair taxation. But supposing they couldn't. Would not that be a very significant evidence that the churches were not really wanted?
— E. Haldeman-Julius

Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.
— E. Haldeman-Julius

Is a church too small and too poor to pay taxes? That means that not enough people want the church seriously enough to pay for its upkeep. Then, why should such a church exist? Why should atheists, agnostics and non-churchgoers be forced to maintain such a useless, unwanted church by granting it tax exemption?
— E. Haldeman-Julius

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.
— Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
— E. Haldeman-Julius

It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.
— E. Haldeman-Julius

There can be no perfect freedom unless the church and state are separated.But the church and state are not separated in America so long as the state grants a subsidy to the church in the form of tax exemption.
— E. Haldeman-Julius

Religion is all profit. They have no merchandise to buy, no commissions to pay, and no refunds to make for unsatisfactory service and results....
Their commodity is fear. They blackmail their parishioners with threats of hell and damnation. These poor deluded people give them their hard earned money to save them from a hell that does not exist, and from eternal torment that was invented by the perverted minds of priests to rob the living and in addition, they are exempt from taxation! Insult to injury!
Let me tell you that religion is the cruelest fraud ever perpetrated upon the human race. It is the last of the great scheme of thievery that man must legally prohibit so as to protect himself from the charlatans who prey upon the ignorance and fears of the people.
The penalty for this type of extortion should be as severe as it is of other forms of dishonesty.
— Joseph Lewis, (1889-1968)

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you....And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!
— George Carlin

Answer 9

i think you are missing the concept behind it. it's not paying God off. it's giving to the people. that is why you donate to churches, orphanages, hospitals, and schools, so on and so forth. it is more like if you are blessed, you should give a blessing to someone else. God's rule is love thy neighbor, and treat ppl how you want to be treated. it's nothing about paying Him off. God doesnt need money.

Answer 10

Yes, you're wrong. First, God owns everything. Everything I have, including my very existence, is His. Secondly, His greatest blessing to me is the gift of salvation worked by the atoning sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. My gratitude for this gift is shown in works of love, one of which is supporting the work of God, namely, going out and making disciples of all nations. Part of that is supporting my congregation and ministries generally with the money with which God has entrusted me. No, he doesn't need money. But I need to use my money for His service. His interest is people and their relationships with Him. That is what my offering is for. Offering money is one small part of a total life of offering and service to Him.