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In my youth there were still churches in the rural communities where a member of the congregation took a rotation at giving the Sunday sermon. It wasn't the same person every week, and those that did preach the sermon were not living off the flock's wealth. They worked for their own living just like everyone else.
Christians need to return to that model. The church was never intended to be about collecting more and more money.
What are your thoughts on these verses.
Ezekiel 44:30
And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house.
1 Corinthians 9:14 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
A pastor and a priest are not the same thing. Technically all Christians are supposed to be proclaiming the gospel. Attending seminary doesnt make you a Levite.
What are the differences in your eyes
If pastors had to run a church as well as work a full time job we would literally have no pastors. much work goes into running a church if your a true biblical following pastor and care.
If anything most pastors don't make enough imo. Yes there are some that make a ridiculous amount. Sorry friend but I strongly disagree with your idea
The argument that Pastors shouldn't be paid is a disrespect to the whole group comprising the church. It's not that God and the Bible aren't easily understood on an introductory level It's that God and His Bible have a depth that requires years of study to well versed at. It's and ignorance and pride issue. A good man who walks in integrity and applies himself to study and practical delivery of the Word is priceless. If you want a novices' attempt at it you'll get what you pay for. It'd be like choosing to let the kids cook dinner a couple nights a week... you may get something out of it...
The men you are supposed to give everything to in that passage are the same group that wrote the passage. The Bible was corrupted like everything else men have touched.
Today we are supposed to love thy neighbor and hold nothing against any man, and yet the writings of the Bible show a number of times that God instructed his people to commit genocide against their enemies. How do you reconcile that?
God killed all the first born of the Egyptians. That is the death of innocent children that had committed no crime against his people. How do you reconcile that?
When u say things like the bible is corrupted it eliminates the truth and therefore it's impossible for us to have any sort of fruitful Convo because now we each will give our thoughts and u can simply say oh that verse is true and that one isn't. God is a sovereign God and kept his word in tact even though man is corrupted.
It only thing it eliminates is those to braindead to think for themselves and understand that two set of rules go back in the the rewrite of the Old Testment to fit to the new demographic of Christians. In the old Testament the people were taught a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth etc. In the New Testament you are taught to turn the other cheek and love they neighbor.
Why?
Because the scum of the earth didn't want to be hunted down and treated just like they were treating everyone else.
You don't need a "church" to worship God or follow God's laws. To many of those good "church folk" are just POS when no one is looking, and so are their priests, preachers, and pastors.