@Studyman
Your self exaltation notwithstanding, you are free to feed yourself and feed your children and grandchildren blood, or maggots or swine's flesh, or whatever your flesh desires to feed them, and brag about it on this forum. I no longer care.
Never have I said that one should drink blood, eat maggots! So you are presenting a Strawman argument ~ now concerning eating pork, I can enjoy, once I offer unto God thanksgiving for all of the blessings of heaven that he has been pleased to provide for us tp eat with thanksgiving.
1 Timothy 4:3
“Forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from meats, which
God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
them which believe and know the truth. For
every creature of God
is good, and
nothing to be refused,
if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”
Studyman, there are some things that I may not eat, only because of personal taste and thoughts of eating it, yet, truly
NOTHING is to be consider spiritually unclean for a child of God. And I certainly should never judge anyone for what they may chose to eat, even though I may never will eat what certain things others might eat. It is call Christian LIBERTY, if not condemned by God's word.
I have come to expect nothing more from you.
I'm not your servant, yet if you were invited to my home, I would NEVER have pork in your presence and offer it to you ~ to a certain point, then I would have pork, etc., in your presence
if you made it a commandment that I do not eat pork. We cannot go through life living by other men's conscience, and allowing them to lord over ours.
But we both know that if the Jesus "of the Bible" came to your house in all HIS Glory and Power, with His Army of Angels, for breakfast, you wouldn't offer HIM sausage and pancakes.
That scenario would never happen, but if it did, I would offer them whatever I was having, and
post Calvary, and the Lord would eat it. If I was having barbecue, pork ribs, etc., that would be what I would offer any quest. Acts 10; Galatians 2; etc. I FIRST would offer up thanksgiving whether in public before kings, etc., or by myself, I would NEVER eat without thanking God for his goodness in proving our needs.
Your signature move is to take one verse out of the Bible, and twist it to justify your rejection of whichever of God's Righteousness that you despise.
Despise? Name one that I despise. God is my witness, that I love his word and would never despise any part of it,
never. Now, that being said, I
DO despise man made commandments and traditions., that turns men from the truth of the gospel. Like:
I'm against teachings of men that basically teaches us: drink
NOT; Touch
NOT; Taste/eat
NOT; handle
NOT; go
NOT wear
NOT; etc. The key is
MODERATION in ALL THINGS. True religion is NOT black and white, there are many grey areas which we must be careful with not imposing our convictions on other saints. I have lived by this and will continue to do so by God's help.
I wouldn't have even known to Abstain from eating blood, snails or swine's flesh etc., unless God's Law had said, "
ye shall not eat of their flesh".
You know this Red,
but you reject it, and you justify your rejection by posting ONE verse, and then lying about it, as if the "Commandment to Abstain from drinking blood, or eating maggots, slugs or swine's flesh,
is a "Commandment of men". and NOT a Commandment of God.
Doers it matter to God? Is it a big deal? I guess each person needs to work that out "
with fear and trembling".
What I am doing here, is exposing the lie being peddled by the promoters of this world's religious system, that the Commandment to Abstain from drinking blood, and eating maggots or swine's flesh, etc., is NOT
a commandment of men, or
Rudiment of this world, as Red is falsely promoting here.
It is a Commandment of God that Jesus, all the Apostles, the first Church under God's New High Priest, and the New Gentile converts were instructed to,
walked in.
This is undeniable Biblical Truth. That's all I'm saying.
I would prefer you rectify the falsehood you are promoting about Ephesians 2, before you continue with the falsehoods you are promoting about Acts 15.
I have someone coming that I must met with, I'm coming back to finish this one and to answer another one you sent.
