"Yet wicked men and
swindlers "Nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ If you gave money to a church last Sunday because you were told the Bible says to, you were swindled. The collection / offering / passing the basket is nowhere authorized in the New Testament. Nowhere is there any hint that a weekly collection was to be a part of the New Testament "worship service". That being the case, the swindlers who run the churches must distort and twist scriptures in order to get your money from you. "Such teachers are not working for our Lord Jesus, but only want gain for themselves. They are good speakers, and simple minded people are often fooled by them." (Rm 16:18 LNT). And what percentage of the clergy do you suppose is on the take? "All, high and low, are out for ill gotten gain; prophets and priests are frauds, every one of them." (Jer. 6:13 NEB)
The following scriptures are the ones distorted by the clergy in their quest to get your money each Sunday: Acts 11:28-30 and 24:17 // Rm 15:25-28 // 1Cor 16:1-4 // 2 Cor 8-9:15 // Gal. 2:10 Even a casual reading of these verses will quickly show they are speaking of the Apostle Paul traveling around collecting money and food for the Christians in Israel who were suffering from famine: and that is all they teach. The money went to help out poor hungry Christians; not pay for a million dollar church building or a $75,000 a year professional goof-off. It was not an item that was ever meant to continue each week till kingdom come. It was a one-shot deal, for a specific purpose. But these preachers will tell you I am lying. In fact, "these teachers in their greed will tell you anything to get hold of your money." (2 Pet. 2:1-3) Your preacher will bitterly oppose what I am saying here. Does he oppose because he loves Biblegod? No, but rather because he loves his job. His livihood depends on the heresy of "the collection" and he'll do what he has to to protect his source of income. He, and other ministers, are "men who are corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, who imagine that godliness or righteousness is a source of profit-- and money-making business, a means of livlihood. From such withdraw." (1 Tim. 6:5 Amp.). Does the Bible say to listen to these preachers? No, it says to withdraw. Withdraw from "those hucksters-- and there are many of them-- whose idea in getting out the gospel is to make a living out of it." (2 Cor. 2:17 LNT). If these two verses do not describe the modern paid preacher, then what the hell does???
Conclusion: The weekly collection has no scriptural authority or example to authorize it. Those that distort scripture to convince people otherwise- to convince people that it's their god-given religious duty to fill that bottomless collection plate every Sunday-- those people are swindlers. And you know that no swindler shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:10).
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