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NASB | 1 Timothy 4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 4:3 who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from [certain kinds of] foods which God has created to be gratefully shared by those who believe and have [a clear] knowledge of the truth. |
Subject: cannot eat pork,seafood? |
Bible Note: Free Thinker: Scripture has answers to your questions and solutions to your problems, although they may not make you extremely happy. For example, "What shall we say then. Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So, then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy....Thou will say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had before prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles." (from Romans 9). Whether we like it or not, God is Sovereign. He does things His way and doesn't ask of man, "Is that all right with you, or do you have a better suggestion?" God made it clear to Job through a series of questions what his place was in the scheme of things. (Read Job 38 through 42). The Bible teaches God's people to pray to God. But the Bible never teaches man to question God or talk back to God. ..... On the subject of faith: Seeing is not believing. The Jewish leaders of Jesus' time on earth were, many of them, eyewitness to Jesus' signs and miracles, but they hated Him all the more and didn't believe. Some of them went so far as to accuse Him of performing His miracles by the power of Satan. So how does one believe? The Bible says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17). --Hank |