Idolatry And The Love Of Money

We live in a day when the love of money is rampant among the church. Many false teachers love money and  have risen up to take advantage of their hearer's love of money. Both are idolaters. In the face of the fact the new testament does not teach tithe, many teachers and pastors make it a major point of their teaching.

Creflo Dollar said people should have to give their tithe or be barred from entering the church and then shot. Later on Creflo Dollar was put behind bars for hurting is daughter.

John 2 ISV

13The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables. 15After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

• 16Then he told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”i

1 Timothy 6 ISV 

3If anyone teaches false doctrine and refuses to agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,d and godly teaching,4he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. 

He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions, 5and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.e 

6Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit.

7Nothing to this world we bring;

from it take we nothing.

8With food to eat and clothes to wear;

content we are in everything.

9But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin. 

10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and causedf themselves a lot of pain.

Proverbs 11  ISV

28The person who trusts in his wealth will fall,

but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.