Tithes ::how much is too much?

The preachers love you to pay 10%. That way they can buy new cars, live in a nice house, and take several nice vacations a year while you struggle to survive.

Tithe is not required.

However:

2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

God is not going to take you aside in Heaven and say "You know what, I have to tell you something. You gave way too much back to me when you were on earth."

If you have to pay then there is no point in it. God loves a cheerful giver, it's all his money anyway. My thought is that we should give all of our money to him and he will supply our needs. Whatever money that you do have should be spent in a manner that he would approve, don't waste it. If you give a tithe give it where he would have you give it. This is how we do it and money has not been an issue for us.

The biblical tithe as commanded in the old covenant law was a tenth of the increase of produce and/or livestock. No one was ever commanded to tithe on their wages.

Twisting Scripture is defined as altering Scripture or its application. Teaching Christians to tithe does both:

1) Tithing was an old covenant point of law. In Acts 15, it is stated that to teach old covenant law to non-Jewish Christians resulted in the subversion of the souls of Christians. It may well be unclear to many Christians how their souls are subverted by believing they have to tithe. To put it simply, it is a matter of believing a lie, and believing God requires something of them that God does not. It is written that the truth will set you free. The opposite is also true; lies enslave. New Covenant theology is about the spirit of the law, sans the letter (Rom. 7:6) and walking in faith. The apostle Paul wrote that the law is not of faith, and to believe you have to tithe causes Christians to take their focus off of walking by faith and placing it back on points of law and compliance with law. Faith is subverted. The narrow path of life is widened into a path of destruction.

Teaching Christians to tithe is an alteration of the application of the tithing law. It takes what applied only to the Israelites who were a party to the old covenant, and attempts to apply it to Christians who are not a party to the old covenant.

2) Teaching Christians to tithe on their wages is an alteration of Scripture, seeing as the tithe was based on the increase of produce and livestock, and never wages. This too is twisting of Scripture.

What motivates someone to alter Scripture and/or its application? There are two main reasons:

1) They do not believe what Scripture states. They believe Scripture is either flawed through a bad translation, or that it does not provide all the evidence on a particular subject, and that other passages of Scripture will “clear it up.”

2) They are wolves in sheep's clothing who have no fear of God and His Inspired Word, where they alter Scripture and its application in order for Scripture to benefit them. A wolf seeks to feed his own belly at the expense of the flock. Does altering the tithing law and its application accomplish this for the wolf?

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Any amount that you are required to pay is to much. The tithe does not apply to Christians.

All tithing is too much. Those churches do not need your money, just to allow their higher-ups to live and travel in luxury.

You need it more than they do.

any money is too much money to give to a crooked church. With that said tithes in the bible weren't about money it was about setting a tenth of what you own to the lev priest. This includes live stock, money, land etc..

In the old testament it says to give 10% of your earnings.....but if you can't really afford it, I don't think God is going to chase you for it, but it is a good standard to give 10% Tithing

10%? Wow, I'm surprised people can afford to be Christians

One can not purchase their way into heaven, or can they?