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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: EdB, Thanks alot for breaking it down for me. I learned alot from that last post. I don't beleive that things like rounding the corners of your hair, not shaving your beard, and only eating Kosher foods are to be upheld according to scripture. I do eat cheesburgers...lol I do think that God has called us to seperate ourselves from the world though, and to dress modestly. I think christians should be modern day John the Baptist preparing the way for Christ. I'm still a little confused though. Because you relate certain eating requirements for the Jews only. In Genesis 1:29, it says "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." God only allowed us to eat meat after he flooded the earth because there would not be any vegatation. - but only certain meats. God gave this instruction to Noah: "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of the beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female." Genesis 7:2. The law of clean and unclean animals extends all the way back to the beginning of human history. Many have assumed that only the Jewish people were forbidden to eat the unclean animals. Not so. There were no Jews in Noah's day, yet the distinction is clearly made. Since it is evident that even some Genesis-kind animals were unclean, how do we determine where the line is drawn between the clean and unclean? In Leviticus 11:3-11 the requirements are clearly laid out. Just because some people ate swine from Genesis to now doesn't make it clean. You stated that "If for instance swine wasn't considered food why would God even need to prohibit it?" My answer is that God can only give us guidance. People were probably eating swine and many other things in ignorance and disobediance from then to even now perhaps. I'm not saying I'm correct on this subject. I just need that Noah question answered, seeing that he represented all mankind. And explain Isaiah 66:15-17 to me on how even at the end of time the probation of man, God still doesnt see these abominable things clean. When did the abominable become clean? Because if God called them all clean then doesn't this counterdict Isaiah 66:15-17 were he still sees them as unclean. Matt |