Kleptomaniac

Did Abram Practice Monetary Tithing?

Using Abram’s example to substantiate monetary tithing is always the argument pastors use to mandate green back tithing. This part of the book, I had to really unpack the history of Abram’s life in an effort to understand why arguments that Abram paid monetary tithes before the law was viewed as indisputable and unquestionable evidence. Examining scripture and history, I could not find one place where Abram paid a tithe from his personal wealth before he met Melchizedek. I also noticed that Abram was 80 years old when he paid the tithe only once from the spoils of war. And then, I looked for examples of where Abram’s children paid a tithe in money to prove the claim that tithes were always money. Needless to say, the more I searched for monetary tithe evidence in the scripture, the trail went cold. So I traced back Abrams history in scripture with his father only to discover that his family’s amassed wealth through the principles of commerce and had nothing to do with tithing. The evidence is clear, if you follow the money, Abram’s history in Ur Canaan, and his encounter with Pharaoh and Egypt, it is clear how Abram got rich. So it’s official, the monetary tithe is a permanently solved case no longer cold.