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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: Mathew Again your relating everything to the Jewish laws of separation. God called his people to be different, therefore he gave them laws which would make them different. If for instance swine wasn't considered food why would God even need to prohibit it? Evidently swine was a common food at the time and God then put it on the Jewish prohibition list. Exactly why we do not know though many foolishly speculate on the reason. Now we come to Mark 7. You say Mark recording Jesus' words only meant acceptable food or things considered food and since swine was on the prohibition list it wasn't considered. I think not. The Jews lived surrounded by gentiles who raised hogs for food. We see Jesus cast the demons in to a herd of swine. Everyone considered swine food and just the Jews refrained from eating it. When Mark is talking here if his intent was to talk only about what Jews ate or to eliminate swine and such he would have to said the food Moses okayed us to eat, or the lawful food or something to that extent. But the passage says food and we need to take it as literally not trying to put and conditions on it. Remember one more point the Leviticial dietary laws went a step further and set conditions on the okay food. It is known as Kosher. It dictates how food is to be killed, how it is to handled, stored, etc. For instance dairy and meat products can not come into contact with each other. All animals must be killed by having their jugular vein cut with a very sharp blade thus feeling little or no pain. All animals must be inspected and any deformity, injury or birth defect eliminates that animal from being considered eatable. In North Eastern Pennsylvania Jewish Rabbi from NY City take turns inspecting the chickens. They kill each and every one (with scary sharp blades) and inspect the chicken if they reject a chicken it goes into the “gentile” line. By your standard they are no longer for food talked about in Mark 7 and I say this hold no validity. No Jew would consider eating a cheese burger since dairy and meat touch however I don’t think any would say it is not food. They just called it prohibited, unclean or nonkosher food. EdB |