This book has been in the making for 50 years; ever since Thomas Moore found a germ within the tithing doctrine that departed from the Living God. Thomas set out in 1973 to expose where this germ corrupts the basic doctrines of the New Testament, but in so doing he found that he needed to acquire a full understanding of all the primary Christian doctrines. This required reading the entire Bible from cover to cover many times in different translations, as well as compiling an extensive theology library. Years were spent reading entire commentaries, word studies, and systematic theology by various scholars, along with sermons and lessons from the greatest preachers of all time. In 2015 the author finished following the tithing germ through every school of theology and discovered the specific truths of Scripture being violated.
In 2015 he began writing the book to refute each false teaching that supports the false doctrine of tithing and expose all of its fallacies, heresies and blasphemies, which was published in November of 2019 as Living Waters from Difficult Passages. The book is very thorough. It not only exposes the heresies and blasphemies, but also contains the popular verses of Scripture that pastor’s abuse, in order to support the tithing practice. This made the book almost 500 pages long. Many people are not interested in a book that large, so the author developed this book as a companion book, which is a quick and easy read; just covering the basic blasphemies of the religious tithing teaching. If reading TITHINGISM peaks your interest for more insights and Biblical evidence into the false teachings of the tithing tradition, then Living Waters from Difficult Passages will satisfy completely.
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Thomas Moore was heavily persecuted for his faith while serving in the US Navy in Vietnam. During the three years of constant abuse, Thomas learned that a personal love relationship with God provides power to rejoice in the midst of misery, and the ability to Love those who hate you. Thomas was horrified as a civilian to find so many churches teaching their congregations lies, such as a believer must pay their tithes regularly or God will curse them. If they do tithe regularly then they will be blessed with access to God and His favor. Thomas knew following Jesus daily was following a living Savior in a personal relationship, which is destroyed by practicing religion.
Thomas spent years, street witnessing and leading many to Jesus and it was heartbreaking that when he brought them to a church to be fed, they were just fed the dead religion of tithing. Being tied to a religion never left them free to be led by the Holy Spirit. The Bible says those born of the Spirit will be led by the Spirit, yet believers were taught to swear allegiance to a religion instead of Jesus.
Jesus did not bring religion to the world, He brought a personal relationship. Thomas set out in 1973 to prove Malachi 3:8-11 style tithing is defunct and hostile to the Gospel of Christ. In 2019 he finished his massive research of the scriptures and published his book: Living Waters from Difficult Passages, which contains a wealth of knowledge exposing all the false teachings on tithing. As a result, that book became very large and many people are not interested in a book that large. That’s why Thomas has written this little book, which just covers the main points of how the practice of religious tithing is evil.