This MOU between RNC and AFN further demonstrates our desire to strengthen relationships, build understanding and create sustainable community benefits as we progress the development of the Dumont project.
173-174). Godâs laws in the Old Testament not only regulated slavery (so that those enslaved would be given many rights that they otherwise would not have had), but they also supplied the means whereby fairness could be meted out with regard to criminal activity and debt.T]here is no reasonable doubt that the New Testament, like the Old, not only tolerated chattel slavery (the form prevalent in the Greco-Roman world of Paulâs time) but helped to perpetuate it by making the slavesâ obedience to their masters a religious duty.
I would like to comment on the issue of tithing on gross or net. If you think about it, most people in the Old Testament were business owners.. They didn't work for other people so to speak.They paid out 10% of the first fruits or of the income produced.Then, they paid their taxes.--John on 6/9/07. I used to think it didn't matter if you tithed on the gross or on the net, but I have changed my mind. It is important to begin tithing, either if it is just on the net. But, if you want to receive fully from God, you have to tithe on the gross.