gsmonks: Yeah, well, in this more enlightened age, we're not as apt to take such nonsense seriously.
That passage was written a long time ago by people who believed that the world was flat, that goats breathed through their ears, and that you could protect your house by taking one of your children, stuffing them in a post hole, crushing them to death with a corner post, and building your house on top of them.
I like to think that we've progressed a little since then.
Crollydoll11: I never said anyone was being "hateful",what i said was nobody here seems capable of having a conversation or debate with being foolish,flippant and making a skit of the topic,especially if it comes from certain nations.That said i agree with you 100% about religion,the violence,intolerance.I mean as we go along so many religious rules are still being made and in future years will go down as God made,just as we look back.So yeah ,all man made and power and money.
Well then we are in agreemant - - - - - You seem to be a wise woman
I remember my grandparents slaughtering a pig and using EVERY part of the pig....ugh. But I do love pork tamales, barbacoa (the cheeks of the pig) pork chops, ham....
sabusha: "And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase." Deuteronomy 14:8
You're mixed up.
The food laws of the Old Testament were only for Jews.
Christians are not Jews.
Jesus did away with the obligation to follow the Old Testament "laws of Moses" even for Jews.
Christians had never been under the laws of Moses.
The very first vision that Paul received after his conversion to Christianity was of all the various animals considered "unclean" by the Laws of Moses. Jesus told Paul to "rise kill, and eat" Paul protested, "No Lord, I'm a faithful religious Jew, I've never eaten anything unclean, and I'm not about to start now". Jesus answered him, "That which God has cleansed, let no man call unclean." Paul received the vision 3 times in a row to drive the point home.
The visions had 2 different but complementary interpretations. One was that the gentile people whom the Jews had always considered to be unclean, were now just as much "God's people" as the Jews. No better no worse.
The second lesson was more or less a reminder of what Jesus had already said in responding to the legalistic scribes and Pharisees who accused him of not respecting the food laws. He told them that a person is not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of his mouth.
The food laws of the Old Testament were only for Jews.
Christians are not Jews.
Jesus did away with the obligation to follow the Old Testament "laws of Moses" even for Jews.
Christians had never been under the laws of Moses.
The very first vision that Paul received after his conversion to Christianity was of all the various animals considered "unclean" by the Laws of Moses. Jesus told Paul to "rise kill, and eat" Paul protested, "No Lord, I'm a faithful religious Jew, I've never eaten anything unclean, and I'm not about to start now". Jesus answered him, "That which God has cleansed, let no man call unclean." Paul received the vision 3 times in a row to drive the point home.
The visions had 2 different but complementary interpretations. One was that the gentile people whom the Jews had always considered to be unclean, were now just as much "God's people" as the Jews. No better no worse.
The second lesson was more or less a reminder of what Jesus had already said in responding to the legalistic scribes and Pharisees who accused him of not respecting the food laws. He told them that a person is not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of his mouth.
RayfromUSA: You're mixed up. The food laws of the Old Testament were only for Jews. Christians are not Jews.
H'm . . . Christ (who probably never existed) was born, lived and died a Jew . . . his family was Jewish, the disciples were Jews . . . there was no such thing as a Christian in those days . . .
Seems to me that Christ intended himself to be a reformer of his people, making them Jews who followed the new covenant, not Christians.
It's from a book of faerie-tales, anyway. I like Lord Of The Rings better. It's more believable.
In the meantime . . . here, piggy, piggy, piggy! Soo-EE!
The food laws of the Old Testament were only for Jews.
Christians are not Jews.
Jesus did away with the obligation to follow the Old Testament "laws of Moses" even for Jews.
Christians had never been under the laws of Moses.
The very first vision that Paul received after his conversion to Christianity was of all the various animals considered "unclean" by the Laws of Moses. Jesus told Paul to "rise kill, and eat" Paul protested, "No Lord, I'm a faithful religious Jew, I've never eaten anything unclean, and I'm not about to start now". Jesus answered him, "That which God has cleansed, let no man call unclean." Paul received the vision 3 times in a row to drive the point home.
The visions had 2 different but complementary interpretations. One was that the gentile people whom the Jews had always considered to be unclean, were now just as much "God's people" as the Jews. No better no worse.
The second lesson was more or less a reminder of what Jesus had already said in responding to the legalistic scribes and Pharisees who accused him of not respecting the food laws. He told them that a person is not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of his mouth.
Thought that happened to Peter!
.'Acts 10:14 "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."
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