It was required for far more than that.
No, it wasn't.
Now show me, specifically where the law of tithing was rescinded by anyone.
I already did. You never read Hebrews without Mormon glasses on, did you? it is all about how the new and better covenant of grace in Jesus' blood is so much BETTER than the OLD covenant in the blood of bulls and goats, with its priesthood that always perished and have to be replaced due to death.
Melchizedek’s Priesthood Like Christ’s - For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of...
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11 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. 13 For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.
15 And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become such not on the basis of a law of [g]physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is attested of Him,
“You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
18 For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness 19
(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. 20 And inasmuch as it was not without an oath 21 (for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, 22 so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
23 [h]The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, 24 but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. 25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
26 For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 28 For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.
“The Lord has sworn
And will not change His mind,
‘You are a priest forever’”);
So, YOUR priesthoods are as phony as Monopoly money. They are totally unnecessary. There HAS been a change in priesthood, through Jesus Christ of the tribe of Judah, which never was part of the Levitical priesthood. And Jesus is our great High Priest, the only one we ever need because He is perfect and Holy and saves us and lives forever. None of your priests can ever claim these things.
So, no, there is NO LONGER a Levitical/Aaronic priesthood to support. Nor is there a need any more for any temples in which to perform sacred service to God and especially to perform animal sacrifices. Instead, each and every true Christian in the world is a temple to the indwelling HS, Who is God, and instead of offering up wave offerings of grain, or animal sacrifices, but instead, offer up sacrifices of prayers, praises, and thanksgivings, which are much pleasing to the Lord, as His word tells us.
Instead, people inside your "temples" offer up unclean, dead works to a false god, with foul renditions of the Creation and Fall into sin stories from Genesis, shown in a video to those participating in the endowment ceremony, in the name of a false savior, the actual brother of Satan (!) in the supposed pre-mortal existence.
A Better Ministry - Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. For every high priest...
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13 6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
The Old and the New - Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place. Behind the second veil there was a...
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And more. This book says that the OLD covenant in the Law of Moses was the shadow of the things to come, i.e., Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the OLD covenant. The Law of Moses was the shadow, but Christ is the substance.
Also, IF all of these OT laws are still in effect, then why don't Mormons follow the kosher food laws? The clean/unclean laws? Are women in your families deemed "unclean" during their monthly cycles?
We have specifics on other laws such as circumcision and the shedding of blood or the high priest or the diet requirements, but I can't find anything that rescinds tithing, which, btw, was established before the law of Moses.
Read Hebrews--all of it--but first, take off your Mormon-tinted glasses and read it, as if reading it for the first time, as if it really had something to say to you.
He did. Tithing predates the Lo,M.
No, it doesn't. NOT as a Law. Abraham, of his own free will, gave a tithe of the spoils from the war he fought to free his nephew Lot to Melchizedek. That does not make it a law. It was a free-will offering. NO priesthood, tabernacle, or temple yet to support and, it is the only time Abraham was recorded as doing such a thing.
Temples predate the law of Moses as well.
Yes--by pagans. But Paul clearly says in Acts 17 that God does NOT live in temple made by human hands. Your temples are made by human hands, aren't they?
According to you, but not according to the scriptures. Like churches as long as there are temporal needs for members of the church, there will be a need for ministers of those temporal needs, one of which is not unlike the ordinances the priests in those temples performed.
I agree what churches should support their pastors; that is entirely biblical. BUT NOWHERE is the church commanded to tithe when it gives to the church; instead, Paul says to "give as the Lord has prospered you."
Jesus had some harsh things to say to the Pharisees for one of their man-made laws, remember? That made it impossible for a man to care for his parents? Remember:
Mark 7--
6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
7 ‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
8 Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”
9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’; 11 but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’ 12 you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; 13 thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
I remember reading one of your leader's speeches, in which he told church members always to tithe, no matter what, even if their children go hungry (paraphrasing). I don't remember this guy's name--I think "Lynn" is one of his names--but in a church as wealthy as yours, why would it want little children to go hungry, so it can rake in more money to fill its already bloated coffers? This sounds suspiciously like what Jesus was talking about, to the Pharisees and their man-made doctrines.
