Should I tithe from my gross or net income?

Seems to me it is used for a lot of purposes the tithe was never intended to cover. I don't see charitable works among your list and I can be certain that the Old Testament tithe was not meant to pay the levites.

You are right the church has become a business and the Word of God is being used to justify the shearing of the sheep

We as Latter Day Saints pay 10 percent whole heartedly from our gross , and any extra blessings we may have received. Our gross and extra however, is personally known only between us and God.

This covers Our food storages , Missionary workers in the field, build our churches etc. We do not pass a collection plate. Anyone of our members need anything , they know we have a fund set aside to help them in their time of need, if it be a worthy cause.
They need a job , chances are one of us can help them find one. We feel even that we will be blessed for it.

Paraclete,
It is good to see you here again.
Fred

I find this very inspired!

Exposing The Tithe Lie

I personally do not believe we the church are told to tithe. We are told to be cheerful givers....give more than 10 percent if you can but we aren't under the law. If we WERE under the law...it would be from your gross income.

I agree with you, classy, the New Testament standard, the standard for Christians, is 2 Corinthians 9 but like most Christian standards it requires serious commitment. It is far easier to operate under the Law and the Church has used the Law to create a rule without discerning that to operate under the Law you must fulfill all of the Law.

I cannot see how tithing can operate without recreating the conditions under which the Jewish system operated, it is a foolishness and false to say that the tithe is 10% of gross income. There is no indication in Scripture that it operated this way in Israel or Judah and the priests and Levites were fed through offerings, the tithe operated on increase in flocks and crops.

In my Church we are asked to give 10% after taxes, not of gross income.
We are asked to give 10% to the Church OR 5% to The Church and 5% to other good causes the Red Cross, the local food bank for the poor, etc.
It comes to mind that Jesus asked a young man to give everything to the poor and follow Him. The young man did not.
Then there is the bible story about the couple who died becauae the lied about selling everything and giving it to the poor.
Peace and kindness,
Fred

Hi Fred. I look at the examples you gave and actually they have nothing to do with tithing and everything to do with heart attitude and both had the same wrong heart attitude, their money was more important than their salvation. Literally they had gained the world and lost their soul. You cannot attain righteousness by following a perscription of works rather giving to the poor and supporting the church are an outworking of Christ in you.

There will always be religious people to whom the form is more mportant than the substance. It is an unfortunate part of religion. The error is in a structure that supports this form of thinking and tithing in a Christian context is unfortunately part of that, form over substance.

2 Cor. 9: 6-11: Remember this; The person who plants a little will have a small harvest, but the person who plants a lot will have a big harvest. 7 .Each one should give as you have
Decided in your heart to give. You should not be sad when you give, and should not give
Because you feel forced to give. God loves the person who gives happily. 8. And God can give you more blessings than you need. Then you will always have plenty of everthing- enough to give to every good work. 9. It is written in the Scriptures: " He gives freely to the poor. The things he does are right and will contiue forever". 10. God is the One who gives seed to the farmer and bread for food. He gives you all the seed you need and makes it grow so there will be a great harvest from your goodness. 11. He will make you
Rich in every way so that you can always give freely. And your giving through us will cause many to give thanks to God.
To answer your question, it all depends on how much you want to reap. Read Luke 6:38.

My husband and I tithe. We can't afford not too.

Maggie 3

You no doubt know that this Scripture as nothing to do with tithing but is specifically about Christian giving, You cannot reap from tithing. If Paul was writing about tithing he would have said so, but he was not and he did not.