Ha, ha, ha!
You do err greatly!
Please list the other scriptures you reference to support your argument.
(Because you have not referenced any)
- -Or continue in your error.
You do err greatly!
Please list the other scriptures you reference to support your argument.
(Because you have not referenced any)
- -Or continue in your error.
Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
From the Diaglott...
Rom 14:17 Not for is the kingdom of the God eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in spirit holy;
βρῶσις
brōsis
bro'-sis
From the base of G977; (abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively): - eating, food, meat.
G4213
πόσις
posis
pos'-is
From the alternate of G4095; a drinking (the act), that is, (concretely) a draught: - drink.
The foods (word for meat in Rom 14:15 is broma and means foods) were those that were those dedicated and sacrificed to idols.
You did list this one initially, but I saw no explanation for it...
1Co 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Although I am not a fan of Barclay, he does a fair job here...
Paul brings to an end this long discussion of the question of meat offered to idols with some very practical advice.
(i) His advice is that a Christian can buy anything that is sold in the shops and ask no questions. It was true that the meat sold in the shops might well have formed part of a sacrifice or have been slaughtered in the name of some god lest the demons enter into it; but it is possible to be too fussy and to create difficulties where none need exist. After all, in the last analysis, all things are God's.
(ii) If the Christian accepts an invitation to dinner in the house of a pagan, let him eat what is put before him and ask no questions. But, if he is deliberately informed that the meat is part of a sacrifice, he must not eat it. The assumption is that he is told by one of these brothers who cannot rid his conscience of the feeling that to eat such meat is wrong. Rather than bring worry to such a man the Christian must not eat.
(iii) So once again out of an old and remote situation emerges a great truth. Many a thing that a man may do with perfect safety as far as he himself is concerned, he must not do if it is going to be a stumbling-block to someone else. There is nothing more real than Christian freedom; but Christian freedom must be used to help others and not to shock or hurt them. A man has a duty to himself but a still greater duty to others.
The subject is not clean and unclean, it is meats offered to idols. How does Paul feel about clean and unclean?
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Now what scripture did Paul and Timothy have?
2Ti 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
The only scriptures they had were the O.T. Now where in the O.T. are meats sanctified (set apart) by the Word of God?
Lev 11 and Deut 14.
The usual defense when one has none is to attack with a supercilious laugh. Ha ha ha.
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