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To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dereformer(m): 9:56am On Oct 28, 2015
To those who say tithing brings prosperity, how come the richest man in Africa is not even a born again 'tithing" christian?

Please answer?

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Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by thorpido(m): 9:58am On Oct 28, 2015
That's because in your limited understanding,you equate prosperity with money.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dahveydson(m): 10:05am On Oct 28, 2015
thorpido:
That's because in your limited understanding,you equate prosperity with money.

Prosperity has to do with material and financial gains, so what are you saying?

What limited understanding? A simple concept like prosperity, you want to make it ambiguous? Nice try.

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Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by yorex2011: 10:05am On Oct 28, 2015
Asides from what the above poster said, because on thing brings another doesn't equate the later being brought exclusively only by the former..
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by yorex2011: 10:07am On Oct 28, 2015
Dahveydson:


Prosperity has to do with material and financial gains, so what are you saying?

What limited understanding? A simple concept like prosperity, you want to make it ambiguous? Nice try.

Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune and / or successful social status. Prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes others factors which can be independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health.
Source : Wikipedia

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Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dahveydson(m): 10:13am On Oct 28, 2015
yorex2011:


Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune and / or successful social status. Prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes others factors which can be independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health.
Source : Wikipedia

Prosperity is enmeshed in WEALTH first as stated there.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by CharlyNick: 10:14am On Oct 28, 2015
Dereformer:
To those who say tithing brings prosperity, how come the richest man in Africa is not even a born again 'tithing" christian?

Please answer?



You Answer This, WHO IS THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD?

THEN DO YOUR RESEARCH IF HE'S A TITHER.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Nobody: 10:26am On Oct 28, 2015
CharlyNick:




You Answer This, WHO IS THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD?

THEN DO YOUR RESEARCH IF HE'S A TITHER.



The world richest man is Bill gates and he is not Christian n he does not pay tithe.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dereformer(m): 10:28am On Oct 28, 2015
CharlyNick:




You Answer This, WHO IS THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD?

THEN DO YOUR RESEARCH IF HE'S A TITHER.


I don't know the current richest man in the world but I know Bill gate was or is still the richest man in the world.

But he is not a born again christian. He may be a church goer but definitely not a Spirit filled born again. He spends a lot of his fortune on charity especially to less developed countries. But he does not pay tithe.

My point is paying tithe can never make you richer ( wealth is a component of prosperity). If you want more money, please do more business.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by thorpido(m): 10:58am On Oct 28, 2015
Dahveydson:


Prosperity has to do with material and financial gains, so what are you saying?

What limited understanding? A simple concept like prosperity, you want to make it ambiguous? Nice try.
Prosperity is part of it but it's not all of it.Prosperity is not all material and financial.

Have you heard the word 'shalom' before?Do you know what it means?
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dahveydson(m): 11:00am On Oct 28, 2015
thorpido:
Prosperity is part of it but it's not all of it.Prosperity is not all material and financial.

Have you heard the word 'shallom' before?Do you know what it means?

Was Abraham not prosperous before the birth of isaac?
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by thorpido(m): 11:03am On Oct 28, 2015
Dahveydson:


Was Abraham not prosperous before the birth of isaac?
Abraham was prosperous before the birth of Isaac but Abraham had had a working relationship with God before the birth of Isaac.That made him prosperous.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dahveydson(m): 11:05am On Oct 28, 2015
thorpido:
Abraham was prosperous before the birth of Isaac but Abraham had had a working relationship with God before the birth of Isaac.That made him prosperous.

I am not challenging the cause of his prosperity, it's your trying to make Prosperity ambiguous that it's been challenged.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by thorpido(m): 11:31am On Oct 28, 2015
Dahveydson:


I am not challenging the cause of his prosperity, it's your trying to make Prosperity ambiguous that it's been challenged.
I'm not making prosperity ambiguous.There is an english definition of words but there is a biblical meaning to such words which may be different.
The word shalom is where the biblical meaning of prosperity comes from.Shalom means completeness,soundness,wholesomeness,welfare and peace.It includes material and financial gains too.
For example,do you know or have heard of very rich people who can't sleep at night?By the biblical definition of prosperity,it doesn't apply to such a man because the biblical prosperity comes with peace(without worries).
There is the biblical meaning of things which are not just english definitions and that was what I was pointing out.

By the way,i wasn't defending the argument of tithing as the only source of prosperity.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Dahveydson(m): 11:46am On Oct 28, 2015
thorpido:
I'm not making prosperity ambiguous.There is an english definition of words but there is a biblical meaning to such words which may be different.
The word shalom is where the biblical meaning of prosperity comes from.Shalom means completeness,soundness,wholesomeness,welfare and peace.It includes material and financial gains too.
For example,do you know or have heard of very rich people who can't sleep at night?By the biblical definition of prosperity,it doesn't apply to such a man because the biblical prosperity comes with peace(without worries).
There is the biblical meaning of things which are not just english definitions and that was what I was pointing out.

By the way,i wasn't defending the argument of tithing as the only source of prosperity.

I asked you if Abraham was prosperous before the birth of isaac, you said yes. Now you're contradicting yourself with this wholesomeness talk.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by thorpido(m): 12:18pm On Oct 28, 2015
Dahveydson:


I asked you if Abraham was prosperous before the birth of isaac, you said yes. Now you're contradicting yourself with this wholesomeness talk.
What has the birth of Isaac got to do with Abraham's prosperity?He had an established relationship with God and that was where his prosperity came from.
Re: To Those Who Say Tithing Brings Prosperity by Princewell2012(m): 1:54pm On Oct 28, 2015
Prosperity has nothing to do with tithing today, and it is no more applicable to Christians.

My boss in the office is very rich he even owns an estate.
But he doesn't pay tithe, am very sure of that intact he is a very stingy person.


So what do you have to say to that.



Did you say happiness he has some grown up children and they all school abroad, one just did her graduation in USA the both family went over there to celebrate with then.

In fact they are a very happy people.

The only thing you may say is that they may not go or enjoy in heaven.


However is only God who knows those that may actually make heaven, afterall Jesus and his disciples did not pay tithe.

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