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Correct. The dietary laws are one example. Originally, every living thing was given for food. The prohibition for certain meats - some say not every animal classified as meat, but as I have shown, they do - was never even universally, it was limited to the nation of Israel. "Swine" (Matthew 7:6) under the New Covenant are "Christians" living in wicked sins.
Then we agreeMy point was that back then people were not cleansed of their sins, their sins were merely covered
Amend my belief. And also check to whom it is directed. Some cannot be directe to me. Such as the Nazarite vow
As for Isaiah 64:6, my position stands, it cannot be applied to the New Testament Israel (the Church), for if it was so, we would have to suggest even believers were not free from sin and still sinning daily (for Isaiah included himself - "all our"). That is why the Old Testament saints - such as Abraham - were in paradise in Hades, not drawn up in heaven prior to Christ (John 12:32).
Friend, such shows a lack of discernment. It is a wrong way to approach the Bible. There also is no commandment called "thou shalt not abort your unborn child", yet we do know it is a form or murder. Likewise, there is no commandment called "thou shalt not take drugs" either, but we know it is a form of witchcraft. As for, well, shellfish, pork, swans etc., they are not like that. I am aware of the typical Hebrew Roots sarcasm, but we must look at things realistically. I have eaten those things and lived. Those things are allegories refering to unclean people. If we were to take it in a literal sense, we also had to preach against owning dogs. See Matthew 7:6. Both swine and dogs are obviously a reference to what? People!
Are people not smart enough to know what kills and what not? We also aren't told by scripture not eat a rotten apple, but I do not know of anyone who would use a Bible verse to justify eating a rotten apple. Or do you?
The problem with this anti pork agenda is that it is based on switching off your brain. The lack of rightly dividing is a problem. The Roman Catholic Chuch already made this mistake to literally eat Christ's flesh and literally drink His blood.
See Matthew 7:6. Both swine and dogs are obviously a reference to what? People!
Sadly, GMO is in a lot of food today. In general, I am an advocate for growing your own food.
The latter group of course. I just find it ridiculous to put a pork eater on the same step as an adulterer or a sodomite. The latter kill, the former does not. Prayer has the power to cleanse meats (of course only if there is no poison in it). And I am afraid you are adding religious traditions also. By making something physical literal, see Colossians 2:20-23. Only lately I have come across one of those men on Twitter
The very gentlemen agreed with you on the "unclean meats", yet smoked cigar and drank whiskey (not saying you were doing the same, just saying you are missing the point).Indeed. However, because the poison in it, not because of the meat. In Japan, puffer fish is often served, BUT it must be cooked correctly it will kill you. That indeed would be a disobedience to God. If it however IS cooked correctly, I see no disobedience in it.
Honey of itself? Of course (Romans 14:14). However, most of the honey you buy today however is full of chemicals, it is not natural honey.
Not at all. Because he is in violation of the 10 commandments
While eating puffer fish - only if cooked correctly - is not a violation.Correct.
So God did not mean what He said in Genesis 9:3? Had God meant "every clean moving thing", he would've stated it, as he did here:
As do I. I would not classify KFC as "food", even though chicken of themselves may not be unclean.
Correct. You confirmed my point. Food is an issue easy to understand. Acts 15:28-29 then would have adressed pork, swans etc. too. It did not, yet pagans had been doing both, eating pork and eating things with blood in it also. Talking about that, none of the things adressed in Acts 15:28-29 were first mentioned in the Mosaic Law
Genesis already did. In fact, the entire 10 commandments can be found in the book of Genesis, Moses was it merely who wrote them in stone. He however did write down other laws that were given first and had not been given for the first 2,500 years in human history.
John 6:53-56 Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him."
