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Sorry cant resist - Gen 9 - No piggies because only two went on the ark - unclean animal - Clean animals 7 went on ark. So if they ate piggies back then they would be extinct now.
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Where is that in Scripture?
The seven pairs of clean animals were for sacrifice.
I just came back to these posts, and find it is a discussion on the commandment about eating unclean food! In the first place, in Jesus' time they didn't consider garbage eating animals food, and besides the commandment was only as a symbol of what went in the heart. So the spiritual side of being kosher involves the heart more than what is on our plates. Even the followers of rules that Judaizers follow would know this for it was always so. If they used what they ate for salvation they would not be following God as God ever gave His plan for our redemption.
We can argue about if it is wrong to use kosher eating to help us with God's instructions about garbage in our hearts, knowing that in Jesus time they said heart, in our time we know it is brain they meant.
Mark 7:18 (NIV) "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?
Mark 7:19 (NIV) For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")
We can argue about if it is wrong to use kosher eating to help us with God's instructions about garbage in our hearts, knowing that in Jesus time they said heart, in our time we know it is brain they meant.
Mark 7:18 (NIV) "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?
Mark 7:19 (NIV) For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")
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Read what? The 7th day sabbath is not related to the ceremonial sabbaths?
Leviticus 23:37-38 KJV
(37) These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
(38) Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
These texts show the difference between the ceremonial sabbaths which have been done away from the sabbath of the Lord which has not been done away. The ceremonial sabbaths were a shadow pointing to Christ. The 7th day sabbath is not a shadow it is a memorial. The 7th day sabbath as with the rest of the other 9 are still binding.
Leviticus 23:37-38 KJV
(37) These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
(38) Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
These texts show the difference between the ceremonial sabbaths which have been done away from the sabbath of the Lord which has not been done away. The ceremonial sabbaths were a shadow pointing to Christ. The 7th day sabbath is not a shadow it is a memorial. The 7th day sabbath as with the rest of the other 9 are still binding.
Here is a confession of faith that we are told is from Constantine, the Roman emperor who made the Christian religion accepted in Rome. The laws he enacted for Rome also reflect this. He gave it as a reason to get rid of Passover and put Easter in it's place. Many posters are reflecting Constantine instead of Christ. Constantine made Rome Christian for political reasons, not Christian. He was so far from being a Christian that he murdered his wife.
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads & sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspersions, purifications, sanctifications and propitiations and fasts, and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants and observances and Synagogues, and the food and drink of the Hebrews; in one word, I renounce everything Jewish, every law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with the Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads & sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspersions, purifications, sanctifications and propitiations and fasts, and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants and observances and Synagogues, and the food and drink of the Hebrews; in one word, I renounce everything Jewish, every law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with the Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
Well there is no scripture specifically saying “He fulfilled the ceremonial laws of Moses” but He did fulfill the law. Christ fulfilled the law by living blamelessly thus fulfilling the spirit of the law not by observing every ceremonial ordinance of the old covenant. The confusion lies in not understanding the difference between God’s law and a contract/covenant. God’s law is spiritual; it’s His nature and always existed before the old contract/covenant. Christ fulfilled that law that always existed because it is His nature. He did not fulfill that law by observing every single ordinance and all the ceremonial duties required by the old contract, the letter but He transcended the letter by fulfilling the law by His nature walking blamelessly.
And yes, the old contract was never meant to be permanent because the physical heaven and earth were also never meant to be permanent. And as Christ said that physical contract (the letter) will always exist until the physical heaven and earth pass away. But that does not mean that the law will no longer exist because the law is spirit, His nature, and that has always existed and always will exist. And that is the law Christ fulfilled. Observing every single ordinance and all the ceremonial duties required by the letter can never fulfill the law because the law is spirit. The law can only be fulfilled by taking on the nature of God by the Holy Spirit which is what the letter promoters will never achieve. So under the new covenant the children of God also, as Christ did, fulfill that law that always existed (which is spirit) not by observing the old letter (contract) but by taking on the nature of God by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
And yes, the old contract was never meant to be permanent because the physical heaven and earth were also never meant to be permanent. And as Christ said that physical contract (the letter) will always exist until the physical heaven and earth pass away. But that does not mean that the law will no longer exist because the law is spirit, His nature, and that has always existed and always will exist. And that is the law Christ fulfilled. Observing every single ordinance and all the ceremonial duties required by the letter can never fulfill the law because the law is spirit. The law can only be fulfilled by taking on the nature of God by the Holy Spirit which is what the letter promoters will never achieve. So under the new covenant the children of God also, as Christ did, fulfill that law that always existed (which is spirit) not by observing the old letter (contract) but by taking on the nature of God by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.