6. Circumcision
Many claim that because tithing was before the Law it is still required.
This is easily refuted in looking at the parallel argument for tithing of circumcision (except that circumcision actually was a pre-Mosaic principle)……..a covenant set by God (Gen 17:9-14)...while tithing of income or money NEVER is taught!
Note God described this as an everlasting covenant (as was the Sabbath....and clean and unclean foods...which are also no longer applicable)
Acts 15:5 The Pharisees stood up and said ‘The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the Law of Moses’
Acts 15:28 But the apostles, elders and Holy Spirit said…..
‘It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat strangledand from sexual immorality’
Note that in the same way as circumcision came to an end so also the requriement to 'Tithe' would have come to an end even if it had been a Pre-Mosaic principle
Gal 5:1-14 I believe there is good reason to see this text as applying equally to any Law be it of circumcision (or tithing)
Vs 1 ‘Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made you free’
Note I do not know anyone who would describe tithing as a liberty….it is almost always taught as a law and results in bondage
Vs 2 ‘if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value at all’
Vs 3 ‘again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that
he is obligated to keep the whole of the Law’
Note Christians should seriously consider claiming to tithe (THEY SHOULD RATHER GIVE AS THEY ARE LED) because tithing was clearly as much part of the Law as circumcision and if, as argued by some, also a pre-mosaic principle neither circumcision (or tithing) nor uncircumcision (or not tithing) mean anything (Gal 6:15)
GOD WANTS US TO GIVE AS LED BY HIS SPIRIT…..(Gal 5:25)
MOTIVATED BY LOVE (Gal 5:14)