Can you provide Scripture for all of this? What government?
Tithing And Taxes
- Thread starter Squeaky
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Why 12%?
Does His Word say 12%?
Wrong! 10 percent of your income, and 20 percent if you sell something.
I said
no it says
10 "Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,
11 "but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.
Lev 19:9-10
9 'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10 'And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Yes, Israel had an income tax system. But I can't remember the verses off the top of my head. searching a tenth and a fifth might help.
Then why do you say 12%?
I said
Well that was just a guess. If they had to give their whole income to the poor every seventh year. And they had to leave the gleaning on the ground every year to the poor it just looked like around 12%.
Does it say income?
It says a tenth of your increase.
You're welcome is you are welcome.
I said
lol And picking at someone's spelling is straining out gnats.
[Mat 23:23-24
[23] "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier [matters] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
[24] "Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Helping someone to be correct may be removing stumbling blocks or hindrances.
I said
lol That is your correct, not everyone elses. There are many ways to say the same thing. When you strain out something so little you are imposing your way of doing something on others. Think about that.