Chapter 17: Myth—Giving 10% Is A Tithe

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Myth—Giving 10% Is A Tithe

Galatians 3:15-29 AMP

[15] “To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, [if] even a man makes a last will and testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified,

confirmed).

[16] Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his seed (his offspring, his heir). He

[God] does not say, and to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons, but, and to your seed (your descendant, your heir), obviously referring to one individual, who is [none other than] Christ (the Messiah).

[17] This is my argument: The Law, which began 430 years after the covenant [concerning the coming Messiah], does not and cannot annul the covenant previously established (ratified)

by God, so as to abolish the promise and make it void.

[18] For if the inheritance [of the promise depends on observing] the Law [as these false teachers would like you to

believe], it no longer [depends] on the promise; however, God gave it to Abraham [as a free gift solely] by virtue of His promise.

[19] What then was the purpose of the Law? It was added [later

on, after the promise, to disclose and expose to men their guilt] because of transgressions and [to make men more conscious of the sinfulness] of sin; and it was intended to be in effect until the seed (the descendant, the heir) should come, to and

concerning whom the promise had been made. And it [the Law] was arranged and ordained and appointed through the instrumentality of angels [and was given] by the hand (in the person) of a go-between [Moses, an intermediary person