Christianity: How Can You Condemn The Old Testament On Polygamy, And Applaud It On Tithing? – Reno Omokri Fumes

 RENO OMOKRI wrote: Recently, I said Scripture does not condemn polygamy, and I don’t know if it is a sin, though I would not recommend it. I quoted 2 Samuel 12:8 as a Scriptural authority, and this particular individual blasted me, and called me an ‘anti-Christ’, saying that the Scripture I quoted is Old Testament.

Reno Omokri

As Providence would have it, someone asked my opinion on tithes, and I said I do not believe in tithes as a Christian, since Numbers 18:20-21 teaches us that tithes are specifically for Levitical priests, and was so given to them because they were not allowed to own land or do secular work.

Believe it or not, I just this same individual attacked me again and defending tithes in Christianity with, (guess what?), the Old Testament!

The contradiction was lost on him. How can you condemn the Old Testament on polygamy, and applaud it on tithing?

Specifically, he quoted Malachi 3:8-10

“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole NATION—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. (NIV)

I want my readers to note the words 'NATION' in the Scripture above. Scripture must be used to unlock Scripture.

The above Scripture was directed to the NATION of Israel. This is clear from Malachi 3:6

"I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed" (NIV)

The reason God said the Israelites were robbing Him is because, as I have proved above with Scripture, on their way to the promised land, God made a deal with them that He would not give the Levites a share of the land of Canaan so that they could focus on Him and the work of the Temple.

In return the rest of the Israelites were to give God the tithes of their agricultural produce from the land He gave them and God in turn gave His tithes to the Levitical priesthood.

It is funny that pastors who insist that Malachi's verses on tithing must apply to them do not insist that other Old Testament provisions should also apply to them.

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