Debate: Is the Sale of Biblical Instruction Simony?

Podcast: Selling Jesus · sellingjesus.org

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

Read the free book on the topic at https://simony.info. In this debate, Conley Owens defends the proposition that the sale of biblical instruction is simony, the sin named after Simon Magus’s attempt to purchase spiritual power in Acts 8. Tanner challenges that conclusion, arguing that payment for a teacher’s finite labor does not necessarily constitute the sale of God’s gifts. Both affirm that ministers should receive financial support and that spiritual blessings must not be sold. Their disagreement concerns where that boundary lies and how Script...