Byron J Shorter

Unmasking Traditional Untruths About Tithing: a Mandate or Model Byron J Shorter

Publisher Marketing: The goal of this study is to give a biblical exposition on the subject of tithing. Are we bound as Christians to pay tithes as a command from God? According to many in the evangelical Christian community, tithing is considered a command for the church (the body of Christ) to faithfully observe. My purpose for calling this subject into question is to prove that tithing has been taught with a misapplied, misallocated and with an artfully misleading interpretation. What do the Holy Scriptures explicitly say about tithing? Are we to deem the traditional view of tithing, to which many Christians have succumbed, as the authority on this subject, or should we believe the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures as the decisive word? I have labored explicatively in the Sacred Writings on this subject in order to "Unmask Traditional Untruths about Tithing." This is a quest for doctrinal purity concerning tithing, and to disclose a grievous and burdensome departure from biblical truth, that has caused many Christians to feel guilt, condemnation, oppression, economic depression, and that they are thieves under a curse from God. This in my view is one of the worst cases of theological eisegesis that has ever plagued the church. The result of this theological muddling has produced a ubiquitous practice of "Tithe Tyranny." My hope and prayer is for this study to liberate the people from this pseudologia so that they can serve the Lord with liberality under grace. Soli Deo Gloria.