1) The Original Standard of Tithing

At the time of his creation, all things belonged to Adam. However, after the Fall, Adam lost his ownership... What is fortunate is that there is a way of restoration through indemnity. However, for the indemnification, Adam should establish a condition. That is why in the Unification Church, we are doing everything possible.

Even if you are being persecuted, cursed and beaten, nose bloodied, bones broken, even killed, you should still offer all of your heart and mind to establish indemnity conditions, shedding tears.

Tithing? What is it? You should offer more than 100% the price for your blood. You should invest all of the essence of your love from your heart and body. Only through doing so can you be elevated to the position where Adam and Eve were loved prior to the Fall, before they belonged to Satan, and inherit the ownership. If heart and mind are not invested, God and angels cannot cooperate with you, and thus a foundation for the re-creation of fallen humans cannot be laid. That is why the Unification Church members are asked to cleanse everything. (113-40)

Then, how did we resolve our financial difficulties? It was by the support of the church members, who offered part of their own living expenses.

Offering a certain portion of your own income for the maintenance of the church sounds extremely good, but I think that it is extremely bad. Making an offering to God should the first priority in life, before thinking of your own life, and that offering should be 100%, not only a small portion of your income. If your life is the first priority and God comes next, it easily becomes habitual. If God is placed in the second priority, later He will end up being in the last place. Do you understand? Don't you agree? [Yes, it seems to be likely so.]

God is the Creator of the universe as the omnipotent and omniscient Being. Do you think that God as such a Being would be pleased with some money offered by some church members as if giving to a beggar, and would say: "Ah, blessed are those who made a donation to me. You are such a beloved religious group of people?" How could He save His face before Satan? No way. If a donation basket is being circulated in the church, that is an act of a beggar holding the sign of a church. Certainly, God would not be happy with it. (96-101)