In Part 1, we established that tithing existed since the time of Abraham. As you may recall, God knew Abraham would teach his children to “keep the way of the LORD” (Ge 18:19), and “Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws” (Ge…
Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason challenged organized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. He proposed that reason should take the place of revelation. More recently, the modern age of scientific inquiry was supposed to unlock all of the questions mankind had struggled with. Logic and reason were supposed to…
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to review some basics. Protestants love to tell you that the Law was done away with, or that it was nailed to the cross or that the Law was replaced by the New Covenant. However, even the clear teachings of…
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ~ Mt 15:14 I realize that even within the Church of God, people are likely to disagree with one another on some points. It may be speculation,…
This is part of the series on tithing. In Part 1, we examined what tithing is and when it was instituted. We further looked at the record to determine that it was instituted before Mt Sinai and is in force for Christians today. In Part 2, we looked at the…
Well, “Senator Edward Kennedy dies at age 77” reported Reuters via Yahoo! News this morning. Without a doubt, he was the most influential of the clan after the deaths of John and Robert and up until his own death. He had been suffering from brain cancer, diagnosed just a little…
Russell Earl Kelly wrote: Kelly: Can you picture a lawyer in the USA arguing a case using even the good points of English law? Why is that obviously wrong, yet it is OK to argue using Old Covenant law? Well, God does not and cannot bless a New Covenant Christian…
Here it is again. Another email claiming that we are under the “New Covenant” so we don’t have to tithe. The New Covenant is a subject unto itself, and you can read more about it in the articles “The Ten Commandments” and “God’s Plan 7: What Is the New Covenant?”….
A 19 August 2009 article by Joel Hilliker on “Working to Inspire an Empire” posted to TheTrumpet.com and showed up in a Google alert. He covers several aspects of the Pope’s papacy from 19 April 2005 to the present. In the beginning, Pope Benedict tried to reassure critics about “God’s…
The New York Times ran the article “Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich” on 15 August about a convention with appearances by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. “God knows where the money is, and he knows how to get the money to you,” preached Mrs. Copeland, dressed in a…