Tithing is a scam to fleece Christians and should be abolished

Thank you for accepting I appreciate it! I was worried it was going to expire but I am glad you responded. Here is the problem with your first line of reasoning; He did not say to forget what was in the Old but he did say he fulfilled the old law meaning it is no longer needed. That is why there is an old covenant and a new. I will give you a couple verses to make this concrete. Hebrews 8:7-8 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, Hebrews 8:13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Galatians 23-26 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. Romans 7:6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. Christians are not under the old law. That law was as Jesus said, "fulfilled." There is a new covenant. Tithing is the old law and is only valid for those living under the old law. It is a real tricky thing to advocate for some old law and not for all of it. Gets pretty subjective and requires a lot of interpretation that just is not in the text. As for the verses from Mark, these were given as offerings not as tithes. I am sure you are well aware that tithes were never meant to be money even in the Old Testament. The tithe was always and has forever been a giving of ten percent of crops or livestock. No, this does not translate to money today. Money was everywhere in those days. The pharisees were said to be quite wealthy and greedy in the New Testament and even they did not tithe money. Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These were wealthy individuals who had plenty of money to tithe and yet they tithed spices from their small personal gardens. Why? It is because the tithe was set up to provide food as an inheritance for the Levites who were not given any land as an inheritance. Even in the often quoted Malachi 3:8-10 which talks about robbing God, the idea is that by not tithing they were robbing them of something to eat. Not money. Never money. In a time where money was used frequently. Giving is certainly praised in the New Testament but it is not required. And a tithe is certainly not required. Not once does Jesus preach that his followers need to give him a tithe. Nor does Paul or any of the Apostles. We both can agree that preachers who constantly harp on money are despicable and at the same time agree that it is not wrong to accept gifts freely given. After all, God loves a cheerful giver. Not one forced by compulsion. I do not feel that it is necessary for them to teach this old law concept that they warp in order to get money from their members. If their churches can't survive without misusing the Bible to force their congregation to pay for the chapel and their salaries perhaps they shouldn't exist in the first place.