I am copying my reply to a post by
who responded to someone's statement that everything is holy, when Paul said "Everything? So if I have a few beers and watch the football on Saturday afternoon, that's OK?"
[My Response below.]
Good point, but wrong hypothetical conclusion. If everything was holy, God would not have had to have had much of what is written in certain books of the Bible, telling the Jews what they could and could not do. Maybe what the writer meant was that everything should be seen in relation to the spiritual. Is taking out the trash spiritual, one might ask? For the non-Christian (for lack of a better title) what does taking out the trash have to do with the spiritual? Answer: It is done in "spiritual" blindness, spiritual unawareness. It is spiritual, but in the negative instead of in the positive. What does taking out the trash have to do with the Christian? Again it can be the same negative spiritualness of the non-Christian, or it can be positive spiritualness in line with Colossians 3:23 and 1 Corinthians 10:31. The Christian can complain about taking out the trash, or just do it without thinking, or they can be thankful for what that trash represents. An empty can of beans represents the beans you had for supper. Some may not have that trash because they are starving in poverty. A Christian can praise God they have the blessing to be able to take out the trash, rather than be in prison, a hospital, a grave. All things may not be holy, set apart for the Lord, but all things are spiritual, but just aren't recognize unless you are looking through spiritual eyes. We are told in Galatians 5:25 "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk (conduct our lives, take out the trash) in the Spirit.
