have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
The bible however does not mention that money is evil; it’s the love of money to be exact. When the love of money is greater than the love of people it becomes evil. Here, I would also like to counter against the other extreme, money is important, if you have no money you can not buy food, so don’t despise money. Never say money is not important, or else you become a legalistic hypocrite. Money serves as a media of exchange in this world and is a very effective tool compared to barter trading of the past. Money is obtained through industrial trading of products and services or through an inheritance or when someone gave unto you, else you either work or you trade in things. Other than that it’s called stealing, and the easier way is to make up a story and let people give it unto you for nothing, we can sell a dream, an idea, or a hope or even superstitious scams and people are always gullible to give once their emotions are aroused.
So how did these people take your money?
They can not outright take your money for nothing, so the highest form of taking your money is to make you feel guilty of violating a law especially a Spiritual Law. I am still wandering how many true Christians give tithes, only God knows. But is the Tithe not an Old testament thing? This is a perfect game of Sleeping in the East and Eating in the West? When it comes to giving Pastors will quote, the book of Malachi, suddenly the Old Testament becomes important for this one verse and the law is good except the Ten Commandments,
Malachi 3:9 -10, “9You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there