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« on: August 12, 2025, 06:45:00 pm »
So, when you give a tithe and just put an envelope or folded cash in the offering box or offering plate without your name attached to them, you are giving your donations like sounding of a trumpet in your mind, huh?
Just because I told you about your rewards from God for giving, it doesn't mean that anyone should brag to look high ad mighty before God.
When such things are done in churches today, there is very little Pharisaical, rich man bragging going on.
Perhaps you should look at the last book of the old testament on that about donations a little closer. You are instructed to give and not hoard by using the words of Jesus against such a thing.. Your tithes belongs to him. Because for most churches they are alms done in secret and the left hand doesn't know what the right hand in those churches are doing.
Malachi 3:10
"10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
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Yes, I do understand the Bible some. How about you?
I just told you how. You give in the offering plate or boxes like everyone else does, in secret. No one knows how much you give unless you give by check or credit cards and even then, only the money counters know but they don't record it openly. Some get tax returns and want them for their giving, but many don't.
Preachers in almost every church have nothing to do with the donations of the churches. They only handle their own paychecks for doing their jobs.
No, I don't ignore what Jesus said there or anywhere but I also understand how things work in a church. You like to pick out scriptures to justify your own personal sinning, why is that?
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I can show you by scriptures of Jesus and other in the Bible where you are wrong in your thinking too. In the verses that you listed, Jesus was talking about bragging for doing good. Not that doing good like that was wrong, but if you brag, you rob yourselves out of future rewards that would have been paid in Heaven for having the agape love for a brother or a sister in the Lord. And not just doing things in a ritual, that makes others ogle the giver as doing something on their own power. Everything that you have belongs to God. Not just some things and those that act as if what they have is theirs and they give table scraps as a big gesture of self-worth, is what Jesus was warning about.
You have very little idea what Jesus was even saying and talking about. And you only covered a small part of what he said and not the crux or whole of it at all. Spiritual matters happen in churches and the Holy Spirit inhabits churches too. Do you think that missionaries that get donations from many churches to spread the gospel, ever know if Joe Dirt gave a penny to them or not if Joe Dirt went to church and gave to missions or to the general fund that gave the missionaries a check from their church?
Did Jesus tell you and others to go all over the world and preach the word of God as in Matthew 24:14 and Matthew 28:31? Is Joe Dirt a missionary that can do that or can Joe Dirt help support missionaries doing that by his giving in churches?
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Jesus is the Kingdom of God and he is in his believers. God gave Jesus all power in Heaven and the earth.
You are showing me nothing but snippets of the truth that you do not fully even understand.
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You brought up the flat earther conspiracy theory here. No one else but you did that and ran with that idea.
You have no idea what I think about that or anything else, you just assume that you think that you know me and of me but you really don't.
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So, you don't believe that the Holy Spirit inhabits the Holy land and that believers can feel the Holy Spirit there? Is that what you are actually believing? The Holy Spirit is a Holy Spirit that guides us to what we think and feel. He is not a placebo and believers actually have experienced having the Holy Spirit work for and with them.
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Like I said , there is a lot that you haven't even realized yet. The Rothchild's did not build the garden of Gethsemane, at the foot of the Mount of Olives the river Jordan and many of the ruins there or the cave that Jesus was put in or the city structures that still stand there. A placebo you say? Actually seeing and feeling the experience and walking where Jesus walked and seeing the sites that he saw when he walked the earth, is not a placebo to the souls that are getting the Holy Land experience. They can actually verify the truth of the scriptures there. "YOU" are getting much more of a placebo experience if you really want to talk about placebo's. And you putting others down as if you know more without experiencing something proves how far out in your mind that you really are. That's right up there with a non believer telling a believer that they are wrong and that the Bible is fictitious.
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What God said about Israel getting their land back when he gives it to them, has zero to do with the Holy Spirit being their spiritual guide in the Holy land and touching the souls of those that visit there. That land s a spiritual land. And it has nothing to do with the Rothschilds, actually. Wherever you live it was once owned by someone else besides you or your family. Is that land still land and is it still there? Does it have any kind of a history? Do you not think that people that knew it long before you could have certain feelings about it?
You just like to argue to argue but you don't realize half of the truth that you are projecting to be telling and only in part. Your last part is not even close to what I was talking about. I am talking the Holy Spirit there in that land touching and teaching those visitors, through first hand experience, when people see those things there. The Rothschild's or no one alive now, built them as a placebo. Save that war for someone else.
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You are like a madman, grasping for straws and anything he can to argue and try to win an imaginary battle that only exists in your own mind. The gospels mean the good news. How do you think that you are showing the good news of Christ by arguing to pretend that you are smarter or closer to God than anyone else? You still have a lot to learn about God and his Bible. Go do it and be a better person for it yourself instead of trying to brag and boast like your warning verses from Jesus on alms. Stop looking for excuses so you can sin against others and pretend that God is on your side in doing so. God and sin cannot coexist together. And since you are a sinner, yourself, what gives you the right to act as if you are smarter or better than anyone else?