Acts 10:9-15 (Un)clean food?
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The Law can not be divided into categories--- it is all or nothing.
If we depend only on Jesus for our relationship with God; the Holy spirit within us will align our will with God's will so we will not desire to sin.
If we depend on obedience to Law; we in effect say that what Jesus did was not enough: we need to do our part.
If what Jesus did was not enough; then nothing we can add will be enough either.
We should and will indeed not live a lifestyle of sin; not because of our efforts---but because God is at work in us.
If we depend only on Jesus for our relationship with God; the Holy spirit within us will align our will with God's will so we will not desire to sin.
If we depend on obedience to Law; we in effect say that what Jesus did was not enough: we need to do our part.
If what Jesus did was not enough; then nothing we can add will be enough either.
We should and will indeed not live a lifestyle of sin; not because of our efforts---but because God is at work in us.
Yes and more. Jesus 2 commandments are a summation of all the Law and the Prophets.
The question is not whether moral and ethical obedience are important! Of course they are!!! The question is:
Does moral and ethical obedience flow from our efforts, or from God's work in us? My answer is from God's work in us!
I believe that the books of Romans and Galatians support my answer.
The question is not whether moral and ethical obedience are important! Of course they are!!! The question is:
Does moral and ethical obedience flow from our efforts, or from God's work in us? My answer is from God's work in us!
I believe that the books of Romans and Galatians support my answer.
L
Hi DP,
I started a study on this in 2013, and posted the first few portions of my own study here on the forums. I was hoping that others would get involved because it really shows some amazing correlations that occur throughout scriptures.
Here's a link to that if you're interested.
It's not a complete study, but it's a start.
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/71693-two-tables-biblical-foods.html
I started a study on this in 2013, and posted the first few portions of my own study here on the forums. I was hoping that others would get involved because it really shows some amazing correlations that occur throughout scriptures.
Here's a link to that if you're interested.
It's not a complete study, but it's a start.
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/71693-two-tables-biblical-foods.html
I read that. But, you do know some those meanings are given in a metaphor regarding spiritual matters, right?
For example, the 'milk' vs. 'strong meat' idea is comparable to a believer's learning only staying on the milk of the first principles of Christianity, never progressing to the deeper things in God's Word that really builds one's spirit up in The Lord and in Faith in order to make a 'stand' for Him against all wickedness, which is what the 'strong meat' is about. In that analogy, many brethren will fall away during the coming "strong delusion" event upon the whole world, because they've been staying on the 'milk' of God's Word, instead of on the "strong meat" which provides real spiritual strength to make that stand in the future for Christ.
For example, the 'milk' vs. 'strong meat' idea is comparable to a believer's learning only staying on the milk of the first principles of Christianity, never progressing to the deeper things in God's Word that really builds one's spirit up in The Lord and in Faith in order to make a 'stand' for Him against all wickedness, which is what the 'strong meat' is about. In that analogy, many brethren will fall away during the coming "strong delusion" event upon the whole world, because they've been staying on the 'milk' of God's Word, instead of on the "strong meat" which provides real spiritual strength to make that stand in the future for Christ.
L
That was the point of the study.
Like, "bread," for example. "Give us this day our daily bread,"
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
The bible is filled with these types of correlations. It's an amazing subject to study out from Gen to Rev.
Like, "bread," for example. "Give us this day our daily bread,"
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
The bible is filled with these types of correlations. It's an amazing subject to study out from Gen to Rev.
Yes. And that actually is part of the "strong meat" of God's Word which many brethren stumble with.
God uses many symbolic metaphors, analogies, allegories, proverbs, parables, etc., to explain something, which is so to actually make His Word easier to understand. Yet many find understanding at that level kind of abstract.
When our Lord Jesus in Matt.16 told His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduccees, they thought He was speaking of how they had forgotten to bring bread to eat.
Then He reminded them of the miracles of the loaves and fishes, and asked them how many baskets of fragments they gathered up afterwards. Some brethren still struggle with how He related that as analogy to the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduccees.
I find that many also struggle with understanding His analogy about the new wine and old bottles.
God uses many symbolic metaphors, analogies, allegories, proverbs, parables, etc., to explain something, which is so to actually make His Word easier to understand. Yet many find understanding at that level kind of abstract.
When our Lord Jesus in Matt.16 told His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduccees, they thought He was speaking of how they had forgotten to bring bread to eat.
Then He reminded them of the miracles of the loaves and fishes, and asked them how many baskets of fragments they gathered up afterwards. Some brethren still struggle with how He related that as analogy to the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduccees.
I find that many also struggle with understanding His analogy about the new wine and old bottles.
Yes, it is unhealthy to eat octopus or squid, as God created it as a scavenger. It is unhealthy to our body. Eating it is NOT a Salvation issue though.
I'll be glad when brethren in Christ begin recognize that eating away from God's clean list is actually unhealthy to our flesh bodies, instead of always thinking of it as a religious issue.
Eat all the unhealthy foods you want, your body won't be healthy. (And don't forget to pray over those Snickers bars!).
Will it keep you out of Heaven? No, just don't glutton (which is a NT sin).
I'll be glad when brethren in Christ begin recognize that eating away from God's clean list is actually unhealthy to our flesh bodies, instead of always thinking of it as a religious issue.
Eat all the unhealthy foods you want, your body won't be healthy. (And don't forget to pray over those Snickers bars!).
Will it keep you out of Heaven? No, just don't glutton (which is a NT sin).