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   Here’s some church history facts;   
      
   The early church didn't teach a monetary tithe requirement doctrine   
      
   Tertullian (c. 197, W 3.46) Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs (p.9) :     
      
   "Though we have our treasure chest, it is not made up of purchase money, as of   
   a religion that has its price. Rather, on the monthly day, if he likes, each   
   puts in a small donation – but only if it is his pleasure and only if he is   
   able. For there is    
   no compulsion; all is voluntary."   
      
   Didascalia Apostolorum, written circa AD 230, is actually rock-solid proof   
   that the early church did not teach a tithe requirement for the church. They   
   state that tithes were an obligation for the Jews, but not for the church.  In   
   it, we read:     
      
   “The Lord, by the gift of His grace, has set you loose and given you   
   rest…that you should no more be bound with sacrifices and oblations, and   
   with sin offerings, and purifications, and vows, and gifts, and holocausts,   
   and burnt offerings, and [   
   Sabbath] idlings, and shewbread, and the observing of purifications; nor yet   
   with tithes and firstfruits, and part-offerings, and gifts and oblations –   
   for it was laid upon them [Jews] to give all these things as of necessity, but   
   you are not bound by    
   these things…” [ - Didascalia Apostolorum, IX, ii. 35,    
      
   Hastings Apostolic Dictionary, ©1915:     
      
   "It is admitted universally that the payment of tithes, or the tenths of   
   possessions for sacred purposes did not find a place within the Christian   
   church during the age covered by the apostles and their immediate successors."   
      
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