Is Tithing an ancient Israelite law ALONE or is it a post-Easter law too?

LNA writes:As a non Christian, who studies scripture, I have had a fair amount of experience with reading fundamentalist Protestant sites. I have come across the CRI before.I find twisting of scripture to be common on this site (a typical feature of both fundamentalist Protestants and Roman Catholics who find the actual Jesus, Paul, and James to be irrelevant to their modern readings).

ringo writes:The fact that you have to make up non-Biblical garbage like "the Fall" and "original sin" to create the illusion of a theme does more damage to your cause than the nitpicking.

Christology writes:Most Christians identified Jesus as divine from a very early period, although holding a variety of competing views as to what exactly this implied.[49] Early Christian views tended to see Jesus as a unique agent of God;[50] by the Council of Nicaea in 325 he was identified as God in the fullest sense, being 'of the same substance, essence or being'.(...)A foremost contribution to the Christology of the Apostolic Age is that of Paul. The central Christology of Paul conveys the notion of Christ's pre-existence[30] and the identification of Christ as Kyrios.[6] The Pauline epistles use Kyrios to identify Jesus almost 230 times and express the theme that the true mark of a Christian is the confession of Jesus as the true Lord.[31] Paul viewed the superiority of the Christian revelation over all other divine manifestations as a consequence of the fact that Christ is the Son of God.[5] Nevertheless, the view that it was the apostle Paul who introduced the idea that Jesus was divine and thus distorted the actual Jesus has been rejected by some historians. Richard Bauckham argues that Paul was not so influential that he could have invented the central doctrine of Christianity. Before his active missionary work, there were already groups of Christians across the region. For example, a large group already existed in Rome even before Paul visited the place. The earliest centre of Christianity was the twelve apostles in Jerusalem. Paul himself consulted and sought guidance from the Christian leaders in Jerusalem (Galatians 2:1-2; Acts 9:26-28, 15:2). What was common to the whole Christian movement derived from Jerusalem, not from Paul, and Paul himself derived the central message he preached from the Jerusalem apostles.[32] These scholars argue that if Jesus himself did not claim and show himself to be truly divine (i.e. on the Creator side of the Creator—creature divide), the earliest Christian leaders who were devout ancient monotheistic Jews would not have come to a widespread agreement that he was truly divine, but would have regarded Jesus as merely a teacher or a prophet instead.[33]

jar writes:How do you explain the fact that if it were God's will there is no single uniform or universal Christian Canon but rather a range that varies from just 5 books and excluding all of the New Testament as canonical to over 80 books?

Was God incapable of determining the final product as the evidence shows?

Tangle writes: If there was one truth there'd be one answer and we'd all know it.

Obviously people are making this stuff up - how else are there so many different opinions? If there was one truth there'd be one answer and we'd all know it.

The story was that god sent his son the earth to die to save us all.

Despite that being utterly barking mad and obviously just the invention of primitive minds, the bloody prophesy described by the myth did not get fulfilled.

Not only is there no agreement on who, when and why we're supposed to be saved by this event we even know it didn't result in the predicted outcome.

ringo writes:There is no necessity to know the messenger.

You know that it's only the message that matters, so why do you keep bringing up that nonsense?

Which group is more likely to support modern tithing, the Republicans or the Socialist Workers Party?

It's the ones who put importance on the messenger who are making up their own message.