Why should tithing still apply today when it was actually equivalent to an income tax in the Old Testament?

Question

Considering that we pay a different government income tax today, and that our tithe is not responsible for taking care of government matters, why should we pay the same tithing rate today that the Israelites did?

Answer 1

The biblical tithe as commanded in the old covenant law was a tenth of the increase of produce and/or livestock.  No one was ever commanded to tithe on their wages.

The tithe was used in a number of ways; some was given to the Levites, some to the widows, orphans, and poor, and some used by the owner of the tithe at the feasts held in Jerusalem. Contrary to the belief of some, there was only one tithe. Some post-exilic era Rabbis concluded there were three tithes, which becomes an oxymoron.  Three tithes is like saying thirty percent, and thirty percent is not ten percent.

Twisting Scripture is defined as altering Scripture or its application. Teaching Christians to tithe does both:

1)  Tithing was an old covenant point of law. In Acts 15, it is stated that to teach old covenant law to non-Jewish Christians resulted in the subversion of the souls of Christians. It may well be unclear to many Christians how their souls are subverted by believing they have to tithe. To put it simply, it is a matter of believing a lie, and believing God requires something of them that God does not. It is written that the truth will set you free. The opposite is also true; lies enslave. New Covenant theology is about the spirit of the law, sans the letter (Rom. 7:6) and walking in faith. The apostle Paul wrote that the law is not of faith, and to believe you have to tithe causes Christians to take their focus off of walking by faith and placing it back on points of law and compliance with  law.  Faith is subverted. The narrow path of life is widened into a path of destruction.  

Teaching Christians to tithe is an alteration of the application of the tithing law. It takes what applied only to the Israelites who were a party to the old covenant, and attempts to apply it to Christians who are not a party to the old covenant.  

2)  Teaching Christians to tithe on their wages is an alteration of Scripture, seeing as the tithe was based on the increase of produce and livestock, and never wages.  This too is twisting of Scripture.

What motivates someone to alter Scripture and/or its application? There are two main reasons:

1)  They do not believe what Scripture states. They believe Scripture is either flawed through a bad translation, or that it does not provide all the evidence on a particular subject, and that other passages of Scripture will “clear it up.”

2)  They are wolves in sheep's clothing who have no fear of God and His Inspired Word, where they alter Scripture and its application in order for Scripture to benefit them. A wolf seeks to feed his own belly at the expense of the flock. Does altering the tithing law and its application accomplish this for the wolf?  

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Answer 2

Well in the old testament
The people gave there tithes as a gift
To god the money would help the priests
And there family's since they weren't allowed to work. Cause there lives were dedicated to god. There only work was Doing What god instructed them. The tithe helped them
Survive. It's the same for our pastors and churches of today. Most churches have no income the only way the bills can be paid and to keep the doors of the church open is by the tithes and gifts given from the congregation the bible says don't muzzle the mouth of the ox while he's plowing.
That means when god appoints a pastor
Over his people the people ( us ) should help him Financially this is also done through the tithing.

Answer 3

The tithe does not apply today in the same fashion as it did in the Old Testament.  Today God expects each of us to determine in our hearts what we will give through faith.  In the Book of Acts we were given two examples of what is expected of us in giving to God.  It is between you and God, simply be honest and not try to be deceptive.  Ananias and his wife could have kept some of the profits from selling their property for themselves, that was not the issue at all.  What got them into deep trouble with God was the fact that they said that they would give it all to the work of Christ.  They lied.  So be honest, decide what you will give faithfully, and then be faithful in that giving.  God will honor and bless it.  

Why is it needed?  To cover the costs of songbooks, overhead costs of a building in which everyone can fit to worship together, pay a person to be a full time pastor.

Answer 4

Tithing does not apply now, Christians are not bound by the law of Moses and the tithe is part of the law of Moses.

Abraham's tithe was ten percent of his giving.