Today I read 1st Timothy and found something else in support of not harping on the regulating of oneself to abstain from foods for fear of religious impurity.
1 Timothy 4:3, well, I'm gonna start from 1st Timothy 4.
The Spirit clearly states that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
It's interesting, I didn't know there was such repetition of it's okay to it, it's okay to eat. It makes me wonder what were the people going through at that time that Paul had to constantly repeat, you can eat pork, you can eat food that was for the sacrifice of Zeus cause Gd has made pork clean like he has made all peoples clean and Zeus doesn't exist anyway.
Like, were people putting themselves through guilt trips after eating pork? Where they in such a guilt trip that they would stop going to church, abandon Gd, and just start drinking? Or, where people trying to stone the members of their church who were not Jewish, wanting to worship Gd, but still maintained their Gentile eating habits of eating pork. And the people would then tell them, well, you haven't really died to your sins, you're not really a real Christian anyway. HA, actually, I bet that is what happened. Which is the same thing we have today, thus hundreds of denominations of Christianity, I guess. Hahaha, Jesus, will we ever grow up?
-Lisa
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