Subject: Hank - Diet ??? |
Bible Note: Steve: continued .. I was reading my last note to you and I mistyped something. You say God went from "eat everything" - before Sinai to "eat only clean meat" during the Israel period to "eat everything again" after Jesus. Makes no sense. Are stomachs are the same from Adam to now !! 1) If you agree Cain and Abel knew difference between clean/unclean then explain why God could not have unclean sacrifices. If it does not matter for our bodies then why does God make such a deal about clean sacrifices ?? 2) No no "new" laws were given except "love thy neighbor" but even that was mentioned in Leviticus. Jesus came to magnify the law. Now not written on stone but on the heart. If we lust we commit adultery ... 10 comm. with stand for ever and ever. They are the laws which point out out sin. The atonement laws (ceremonial) were "done away with" or "nailed to the cross" by Jesus because He was the Lamb who would come to take away the sin of the world. But sin still abounds in the world (lusts of the flesh) so we need the law which is written in our heart to help us recognize temptation and flee from it. Gal. 3 - well everything has to be taken in context. In the OT the 10 comm. pointed out there sins and the need for atonement. Through "faith" in the the shedding of clean animal blood and recognizing that a Saviour would come to shed His blood for their sins. Their faith in that system of laws atoned for their sins. We no longer need that system. We no longer need to be led in faith that He has come - because He has died and atoned for our sins. Now we just have faith and belied that He loved us so much that He did indeed die and was resurected meaning we too will be resurected when He returns. Our faith and love towards God is hsown to Him by faithful obedience to His law NOT the Jewish "600" laws which made them "work" for salvation !! Diet - do not think I am misconstruing anything - I believe it is the only logical conclusiion. You still have not commented on the comment about Peter knowing everything was clean before the vision ?? So Jesus fulfilled the law but now we are not under the law - so I am safe to say we can now kill and still enter heaven !! 3) Ya my fault - i was getting way ahead of myself. Right - God called Abram out of his country. I assume He did this to get Abram away from sin so God could raise up a Godly nation through Abram. Don't know where I thought it said Abram was a man of God but I look at it this way - God saved Noah because (Gen. 6:8) "he found grace in the eyes of the Lord". I have to figure there was a reason why God could trust Abram to make His covenant with him ?? God knows all !! Abram proved his loyalty with obeying God. And yes the covenant was given as soon as he told Abram to come out of his country. But it must have taken alot of faith for Abram to do this !! But these errors above do not change that the covenant was given to Abraham prior to Sinai. Hebrews 8 -- Now I do not believe I am incorrect. The coventant and grace was available to all mankind. Grace is just the fact that God will actually allow us to repent of out sins and have eternal life. The promise of His covenant is that we who believe and have faith and show love to God through obedience will not die as a punishment for sin but have eternal life. Just in the OT they had to not only not sin but if they did sin they had to atone for their sins through faith in the shedding of the blood of bulls and goats (recognizing that a coming Messiah would come to pay the ultimate price for sin throught His death - since the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin) Only Christ could atone for out sin. When I said keep the covenant I meant being obedient to God through faith - if they sinned they must do the sacrifices in faith. But that fact is as you agree that gentiles were offered the covenant. So to say that gentiles do not know the diet and laws of God is just not right. When they believed in Jesus as Saviour they would know that there life had to change according to how God wants us to be the Lightof the World. Merv |