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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: Thank you Tim! I didn't look close to the timeline. That makes a lot of sense. On the second point, I still have many questions. Such as: If God knows everything ahead of time, wouldn't have been better that I didn't exist since I no longer believe and therefore damned to hell? What would he do that? He would have known that I would find fault with his book and a host of his followers. I don't say this to be mean! I am very grateful for your enlightening information that you gave to me on the first question! But I do find fault with a god that knows everything and still allows things to happen. He, by your account, knew that Adam and Eve would fail and that Ham would fail after the flood. We own our evil ways to the first two humans that ever existed? And the to Ham that continued it after the world was nearly wiped clean? I never stood a chance! And the only thing that I get told is that be faith I can be saved. Faith!?! No proof? When I was learning math, the teacher had to prove that 4x equals 8 so therefore x equals 2. I didn’t just go on faith. And god knowing all would have realized that, I for one, need proof. If he is truly loving and caring and wants me to have an afterlife in heaven, then he would have proved it to me somehow. The last time god was seen was 2000 years ago! No one has seen him since. My son has faith that I will come home every night after work, why? Because I have proven it to him time and time again. Problems for me: Exodus 21 owning people! I get told that this was OK for the times, but not now. The old testament is not as important as the new. Matthew 5 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Why? Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. This is in discussion on this board right now. Many are giving good spins on it so that it does not sound so bad. So my point to all of this is simply, god knew me, and how he made me, why would he let that happen. If he knew all the problems that creating lucifer would cause, why did he do it? If you say that without knowing evil, how would you know good. Well I don’t know what it is like being antimatter either. I don’t know what it is like being female. So that just doesn’t answer the question. One story in the bible, 1 Kings 18, gives a great story about Elijah who built an altar to god to prove to the follower a baal that god was true and baal was an idol. That is what I am waiting for. As soon as someone lights an altar with no earthly help on command, then I will believe. God obviously cared enough about the followers of baal to prove himself, does he not care enough about me? |