When I was in Maine I used to listen to a preacher, now deceased, named Adrian Rogers. I loved him. He had some pretty good wisdom and pithy sayings to dispense on a daily basis. He always kept me smiling. Anyhow I recently read something he said and thought I'd share. I can hear his booming voice now.
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they worked for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
YOU CANNOT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT"
Unless you divide by fractions. 2/(1/4) for instance gives 8.
~Zoo
You could work on Wall Street. BoA might be looking for a new CEO.
Sure you can. With magic.
I'm not that evil.
Besides it's all really boring. I'll stick to science.
That's a matter of opinion.
God legislated it as Tithing, didn't He?
He even mandated that we are all guilty if a single one of us went to sleep hungry while we are all full let alone Fat.
It seems to me that some of us just remember things only when it suits us. Politics trump all things great and small ... doesn't it?
Am I wrong KFC?
Show me biblically speaking where you're getting your facts TA. OT giving was much more than 10%. There were 5 different OT offerings which if added up, (my husband calculated this) it was something like 23%.
To the NT church the only command about giving was the Lord loves a cheerful giver. Nothing about tithing at all. Of course your local churches love to preach on it but they have no basis for it.
In another words we are to give out of the abundance of our heart. For some of us 10% might be alot....... for others why should we stop at 10%? It limits us when we tell others we are supposed to tithe 10% especially when it's not even biblical and we could give even more than that. It shouldn't be given with a stingy heart and it shouldn't be taken from us to give to another.
Okay, who doesn't?
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