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This is wrong for a number of reasons: | This is wrong for a number of reasons: | ||
#Abraham was not under obligation to pay tithes, he paid them freely; | #Abraham was '''not under obligation''' to pay tithes, he paid them freely; | ||
#Abraham only paid tithes once in his life, not every year; | #Abraham only '''paid tithes once in his life''', not every year; | ||
#Abraham didn't tithe on his income | #Abraham '''didn't tithe on his income''' but just on his plunder from war; and | ||
#Abraham also was required to be circumcised as part of the covenant, does that mean that circumcision is also required today? | #Abraham also was '''required to be circumcised''' as part of the covenant, does that mean that circumcision is also required today? | ||
:''Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, t“Cursed is everyone who is hanged uon a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 3:13–14.</ref> | :''Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, t“Cursed is everyone who is hanged uon a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 3:13–14.</ref> | ||