Teaching Young'uns to Tithe

[James Hutchins]

I have been having one heck of a time getting my children to understand Tithe. Not wanting to insult the Church or God with thier meager wages, I have started them out to give me Tithe. According to the scripture, if you are poor or a 'have not' then the correct Tithe is 100%. Only my eldest daughter is able to earn a lot of money, spreading the word of God on the streets, so I Tither her at 50%, more if I locate heathens for her to preach to. All the other children are upset I Tithe them 100% and insist they work. Idle hands are the devils plaything. Any suggestions?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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I have been having one heck of a time getting my children to understand Tithe. Not wanting to insult the Church or God with thier meager wages, I have started them out to give me Tithe. According to the scripture, if you are poor or a 'have not' then the correct Tithe is 100%. Only my eldest daughter is able to earn a lot of money, spreading the word of God on the streets, so I Tither her at 50%, more if I locate heathens for her to preach to. All the other children are upset I Tithe them 100% and insist they work. Idle hands are the devils plaything. Any suggestions?

Give them the beating of their lives. Proverbs 23:13-14

[James Hutchins]

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Give them the beating of their lives. Proverbs 23:13-14

How blind am I! The answer was right at hand all along. Thank you Pastor, God Bless. There will be joyous singing in the Hutchins homstead this weekend!

[James Hutchins]

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Well, I took your advice Pastor. Not that I did not trust you but I did not want to attempt to teach the entire family at one time so I thought it best to start out small. After a few hours, I was completely exhausted and my littlest boy, cute as could be, was curled up on the basement floor, gurgling away. He looked so peaceful, eyes tightly shut, little droplets of the sandmans affections on them. Well, this morning he was singing a different tune. Actually, he was quiet for a change. None of his running about yelling and creating a ruckus. As a respectful lad of 2, he waited till all his elders had finished breakfast before he took any food for himself. Though in our house, you have to be pretty quick about getting yours as the women will get into it before the men are done. I think he has learned his lesson on tithing. I'll pick another child to work on tonight.

Praise Jesus and you, Pastor.

[IllLogicalBunny]

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Ironically, pastors buy bigger jets and taller mansions while poor people in trailers pay for it all...

Save your money and invest in your own future--the pastors of this world are fat enough!

[Johnnyboy]

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Ms. Bunny,

I'm the PROUD resident of a double wide trailer, and I consider myself ANYTHING but poor. Could you do us a favor and say something positive?

Thanks, and Praise Jesus

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

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Ironically, pastors buy bigger jets and taller mansions while poor people in trailers pay for it all...

Save your money and invest in your own future--the pastors of this world are fat enough!

Ironically, Logical Bunny is anything but logical!

In the 1980's I had a sprawling mansion overlooking the Pacific ocean and a fleet of Rolls-Royces. I didn't get that money from scamming people. I was rewarded by the Lord with prosperous fortune for preaching his message to millions around the world on PTL. People in trailers paid their tithes, not because they were scammed or force, but were thankful to me for saving their souls and releasing them from the fate of going to Hell.

You have no idea how many poor, desperate people with nowhere to go in life, would gladly send in hundreds, even thousands of dollars to me with letters praising me for helping them to find Jesus Christ.

There is no amount of money in the world that is equal to the glorious wonder of accepting Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior.

[IllLogicalBunny]

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You don't have to pay money to some person to accept Jesus Christ in your life....

Pastor, you may not take their money by physical force but you string them along with false promises, such as the more you give, the more prosperous you will be....and since they want to be prosperous and don't want to go to hell, they believe you and send in their hard earned cash....

[Bethany Covington]

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You don't have to pay money to some person to accept Jesus Christ in your life....

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Of course you must. How do you expect our busy, busy Lord to pay attention to us? The shuffling of bills is like an angel singing to the Lords ears.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

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You don't have to pay money to some person to accept Jesus Christ in your life....

Pastor, you may not take their money by physical force but you string them along with false promises, such as the more you give, the more prosperous you will be....and since they want to be prosperous and don't want to go to hell, they believe you and send in their hard earned cash....

Actually "paying money"...I don't like that sordid term...I prefer "tithing" is mentioned numerous times in the Bible and encouraged. If you had read the KJV 1611 you would've never have said that statement in the first place.

False promises? Are you accusing GOD of making false promises with people???? You are treading on dangerous ground for that accusation, sinner! I never made any "false promises". I simply preach the KJV 1611 to the masses and spread the Word of God.

[ManOfTongues]

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Of course you must. How do you expect our busy, busy Lord to pay attention to us? The shuffling of bills is like an angel singing to the Lords ears.

Then your God is very greedy. So much for a Lord that lives outside of materialistic things. If you must pay God to pay attention to you, he sounds like a corrupt Middle Eastern leader...

[ScienceFool]

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Give them the beating of their lives. Proverbs 23:13-14

If you gave then beating of your lifes, you would be a horrible father.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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If you gave then beating of your lifes, you would be a horrible father.

Wrong again, God-mocker.

What the Bible says about Children

Children who refuse to obey their parents must be executed.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21

He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. -- Exodus 21:15

He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. -- Exodus 21:17

Children who mock their parents will have their eyes plucked out by ravens and eaten by eagles.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. -- Proverbs 30:17

Like Abraham, parents should be willing to kill their children for God.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and ... offer him there for a burnt offering.... And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. -- Genesis 22:2,10

God killed all the firstborn children in an entire country.

The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon.... And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. -- Exodus 12:29-30

Sometimes God kills children for misbehaving.

And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. -- 2 Kings 2:23-24

Someday God will force parents eat their own children.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. -- Leviticus 26:29

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters. -- Deuteronomy 28:53

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend. -- Jeremiah 19:9

And then there's this statement, which could only be found in the Bible:

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. -- Psalm 137:9

Beating children makes me a Christian father.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

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Amen, Brother Zeke! You tell that heathen!

My own children know how seriously I take the Word of God and have NEVER EVER stepped out of line. They know I follow His Word to a T, and wouldn't ever hesitate to do what God commands me. Needless to say, I've never been "smiteth" or "curseth" by my own children before.

[BNPrep]

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Getting a little over the top on the child beating I think.

Q - do you like to get beaten?

If you do you need to ask the Lord for his help.
If you do not you should not inflict onto others what you would not like inflicted onto you.

Beat a man like a dog and he acts like one.
Respect comes from your tolerance of everyone being imperfect not your fist threatening them into submission and to abide by your ideal of their perfection.

Just as you can take a horse to water but not force it to drink you can preach 24/7 to your children but no force them to believe. They will believe because they see your actions speak in place of your words.

When your old & gray God forbid they try your teachings back when a tired mind allows you to say things out of tongue.

God will steer them straight and true in his own time.