I really never knew that there were Christians that believed you couldn't eat pork and had to follow the dietary laws of the Old testament or you were sinning. If that is the case, then should a woman not be permitted to go to church during her monthly, and is every thing that she touches unclean during that time? What about a man if he hands her some Tylenol or something and accidentally touches her hand, is he unclean for 7 days and not even allowed to attend church...or what?
I don't really know much about the laws of the OT, but I can't understand how you could choose some to follow and not the others?
I mean to me it sounds like if you are going to follow one, then you would have to follow them all...with exception to animal sacrifice, anyhow.
Just because a man doesn't understand some of the Word's of the Christ, doesn't make them Void. Shall I destroy the Word of God because I don't understand some of it? What about the parts we do understand?
As a child we are not given Algebra until we understand the basics. A child doesn't come out of the womb running the 100 yard dash.
Jesus didn't start His ministry until He was 30.
If we don't believe the Word's
we can understand, why should He give us understand of the rest?
Is there any Biblical evidence at all that the Word of God, which created "ALL THINGS", considered swine clean?
Why would I want to follow a lifestyle that Jesus Himself denied?
John 14:
15 If ye love me, keep
my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth;
whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Jesus said: "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you."
Shall I disregard the Christ because of this statement? How is this even possible? Cannibalism?
But you have studied and have learned, I hope, that Jesus is not advocating Cannibalism here at all, is He. EVEN THOUGH His Word's are right here for the world to see. A man has to "Study to show oneself approved of God" to understand this and hopefully HE will grant understanding. Sadly, many just believe what this voice says, or what that voice says. Eve did this same thing and it didn't turn out well for her.
Do you "Believe" Him even in this statement? Or can you pick and choose which Word's of His you "believe" and which you reject.
My point is that the SAME Christ, the Same WORD of GOD that said we must eat His Flesh to be saved, also said:
26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Some things are easy to understand.
Thou shall not kill, Remember the Sabbath, Swine is not food.
Some things are not so easy.
Eat My Flesh, must be willing to hate family, she is unclean and anyone who touches her is unclean.
If we only use part's of the scriptures as a tool to justify the religious traditions of the land and reject the rest, and not to, as we are instructed "To prove what is that perfect will of God", then have we not become just like the Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time?
Matt. 7:
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity. (Lawlessness)
24 Therefore
whosoever (Jew or Gentile)
heareth these sayings of mine, and
doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And
every one (Jew or Gentile) that
heareth these sayings of mine, and
doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
The Word of God's creation of what is food and what is not is one of the easiest instructions to understand that He gave us. Would a Faithful servant reject these Word's just because they didn't understand some of the others?