Can you share your understanding of the explanation of Galatians? I wasn’t able to read it, maybe I missed it.
“How are the things forbidden by the Lord God applied in today’s generation?”
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Can you share your understanding of the explanation of Galatians? I wasn’t able to read it, maybe I missed it.
“The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.”
Romans 14:3 NIV
Romans 14:3 (NIV) - The one who eats everything must no - Bible App
The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.bible.com
Then in your belief, which of them is telling the truth? The one enforcing the law that forbids eating pork, or the one teaching that there is nothing wrong with eating any kind of food, including pork?
The physical realm is a shadow of the spiritual realm: the dynamics that occur in the physical reflect the dynamics that occur in the spiritual realm. To understand the spiritual truth that is being pointed to by something reported as physical, we need to explore what happens in the physical, and then to transfer those processes into the spiritual.
What is happening when I eat and digest something? I am accepting it into my body and allowing it to become a part of my body. It becomes my body and a source of the energy that allows me to think, act and interact. When I eat and digest a piece of pork or beef, I am accepting it to become part of me and something that energises me. What is the spiritual counterpart to eating food? What do I accept and receive and digest that becomes part of me and energises my soul to think, act and interact? Ideas. Where do I get beef or pork from? A cow/bull or a boar/sow. Where do I get ideas from? From people who are spiritually like various animals.
What behaviour can animals having cloven hooves do which those without cloven hooves cannot do? Cloven hooves, or toes, allow animals to climb to higher altitudes than single-toed animals can. So physical cloven hooves mirror the nature of a person who can ascend higher spiritually, that is, they draw nearer to God, who is in the heavens. Without cloven hooves, an animal lives at a lower level; and spiritually represents a person living their life more distant from God.
What behaviour can animals chewing the cud do which those without another stomach cannot do? Animals thqt chew the cud can recycle swallowed food to the mouth for more chewing before swallowing it again to be fully digested, or spitting it out as unsavoury. So, physically, chewing the cud mirrors the nature of a person who goes back over ideas they have listened to, and who mulls them over before deciding whether to integrate then into their own worldview. Without chewing the cud, an animal swallows whatever they receive, without carefully chewing it; and spiritually this represents a person who is credulous and lacks discernment regarding ideas they listen to and accept from others.
The laws re hooves and cud tell us that we should be careful to recognise whether counsel we listen to is coming from a person who spends time with God and who carefully considers what they hear before adopting it. And we should also be the same kind of listener.
The one teaching that there is nothing wrong with eating any kind of food, including pork - as long as doing so is not going to hinder the advance of the gospel among the people observing me eat. We forwent beef while in India so as not to unnecessarily offend the Hindus with whom we were trying to build friendships. But we eat beef here in New Zealand.
It is necessary because the two commandments contradict each other. Otherwise, why would the Lord God command Deut 14:6-8 & Romans 14:3.
It is not right to disregard the command of the Lord God in Book of Deuteronomy 14:6–8, because even the Lord Jesus, in His role as the Son of the Living God, fulfilled this commandment in the Old Testament
MATTHEW 5:17
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
If you understand what was explained in Galatians, why don’t you share it?
If what you understand is the truth and serves as a light, should it be hidden?
MATTHEW 5:15
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
You really like looking at other people’s specks.
But what you do not see is that there is something much bigger in your own.
MATTHEW 7:3-5
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
You said you have read the entire holy book. Why do you not understand what is written, that it is a command of the Lord Jesus?
PHILIPPIANS 2:12
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Are you sure that you are already saved, so you just end up criticizing others?
"I am not come to destroy the [Mosaic] law or the prophets, but to fulfil them,” does not mean the same thing as "I have not come to release you from the Mosaic Law."
Jesus came to keep all the Mosaic Law perfectly during that coming, therefore He did not come to destroy it and cast it aside during that coming. Clearly, a righteousness that keeps the Mosaic Law is possible, because Jesus achieved it and was accepted into the Holy of Holies for doing so. So, that path is still available to mankind to try. It is not destroyed. We still have it with us.
But Jesus has provided a new way to achieve righteousness before God and have access into the Holy of Holies, one that by-passes keeping the Letter of Mosaic Law , while keeping to the spirit of that Mosaic Law. That way into God’s presence is to believe into Christ and enter into the Holy of Holies in Him. We can choose that easier new and living way of the Spirit or we can choose the hard way of keeping perfectly the letter of the Mosaic Law. Personally, I choose the new and living way.
Each belief was based on a certain level of understanding. The law forbidding the eating of pork is inferior to the scripture in the NT that states that what God has made let no one call unclean. This would be the superior understanding.
Lot there to chew
God spoke it. But it got contested bargain down to cow dung insted. Point is that's how close Jesus needs us to be ,to do whatever he says and behold it's against the rule,!
I do not know to what extent or in what sense you mean that truth is exclusive. The truth that is exclusive is proclaimed by the Lord Jesus only to His chosen ones(Mark 4:34), for they are the ones who have come to know the one true God. Therefore, they alone receive the truth. To those who do not know the one true God, everything is spoken in parables
MATTHEW 13:10-17
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Therefore, anyone who claims to be a follower of the Lord Jesus, even if they have read the Holy Scriptures in full and studied them for five to ten years, will not possess or see the truth as long as they do not know the one true God. That is what God revealed to me regarding what you said about exclusive truth.
Belief is the fruit of faith, and faith comes from, or is granted by, God.
EPHESIANS 2:8
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Then, belief is a gift from God.
Therefore, there cannot be different personal beliefs, for there is only one true belief that comes from God.
With regard to understanding, only God gives understanding (truth). Therefore, different understandings cannot truly exist, because there is only one understanding that is given by God.
PROVERBS 2:6
6 For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Therefore, differing beliefs and differing understandings do not come from God.
All the laws in the Old Testament were fulfilled by the Lord Jesus according to His claim in Matthew 5:17. However, His fulfillment was spiritual in nature and not visible to the physical eye.
ROMANS 7:14
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:18
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Because God is Spirit, His commandments are also spiritual in nature.
Acts 20:23
I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
I am confident that God did not reveal anything to you regarding what I said about exclusive truth, because that has nothing to do with what I meant by it.
You should examine yourself carefully to determine what "spirit" you are hearing.
In your speech, God is revealed through you. According to the truth proclaimed by the Lord God, He teaches His chosen ones, which is why they do not trust in themselves when it comes to God and His words. For trusting in oneself is not trusting in the Lord God.
PROVERBS 3:5
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
And anyone who says that he trusts in himself is called a fool by the Lord God
PROVERBS 28:26
26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
And regarding salvation, the truth is, no person can truly examine himself; only the Lord God can reveal what is within him. Just as now, the Lord God is revealing who you are, according to His words spoken in Proverbs that you are a fool.