Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I sure have heard a lot of vegans try to say the Bible teaches their religion and many of them are also into the gay thing, so that seems to fit. I think at Paul's time there were cults teaching a kind of monk type of religion where discipline in diet and no sex etc, gets one to heaven. Every generation probably has similar false teachers.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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Why are you just quoting verse 3? This is exactly what happens when people don't read things in their context. If you read verses 1 through 3 you will see that the meaning is entirely the opposite of what you are getting out of it. This particular scripture warns about cults that put crazy restrictions on people, such as forbidding them to marry or to eat meat. Before you start throwing stones I did read the whole passage. Many think when Peter was called to kill and eat that which was unclean, it was about unclean animals. Really in that passage God was using that to show Peter if God says preach the Gospel to the unclean ,in other words Gentiles,do it!
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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Why are you just quoting verse 3? This is exactly what happens when people don't read things in their context. If you read verses 1 through 3 you will see that the meaning is entirely the opposite of what you are getting out of it. This particular scripture warns about cults that put crazy restrictions on people, such as forbidding them to marry or to eat meat. X2.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I think a case can be made that this passage not only speaks to cult like practice but also to liturgical rite and tradition.
Specifically an argument could be made against both catholic celibate priesthood and baptist prohibition. Baptist prohibition?
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I shamelessly copied this from an article on the topic.
Food for thought....
The apostle Paul wrote the following to the young evangelist Timothy: “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer” (1 Timothy 4:1-5).
Paul is here warning of a latter-day apostasy from the true Christian faith. Notice what these heretics would advocate:
Giving heed to demons. Enforced celibacy and abstention from marriage. Enforced abstention from certain foods that God gave and approved. Could this refer to God’s law about clean and unclean animals? Now let us consider whether these warnings could possibly refer to God’s ban on consuming meats labeled “unclean” in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14.
First, Paul identifies the aberrant doctrines as originating with demons. The laws of clean and unclean animals originated not with demons, but with God Himself, who gave them to Moses to pass on to the Israelites (Leviticus 11:1-2). And this knowledge goes back much further, since Noah knew which animals were clean and unclean before the Flood (Genesis 7:2).
Also, there are many examples in the writings of the apostle Paul where he quotes the Law of Moses approvingly. (See, for example, 1 Corinthians 5:13, which quotes Deuteronomy, and 1 Corinthians 9:8-9, quoting Deuteronomy 25:4. There are many more.) Nowhere does the apostle Paul refer to laws God gave through Moses as originating with demons! That would have been blasphemous!
Second, the reference to abstention from certain foods is mentioned in the same context as enforced celibacy and forbidding marriage. These truly are demonic doctrines, ones that never originated in the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures, but which have been enjoined by some religious authorities since the time of Christ. Indeed, required celibacy for religious leaders has been blamed for serious abuses and scandals in recent years.
Third, these heretics would seek to ban the consumption of certain foods that God created to be enjoyed. “For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving” (verse 4). Does this mean human beings should consume just anything: Leeches? Rats? Poisonous frogs? Cockroaches? Flies? Obviously no.
So what does 1 Timothy 4:1-5 mean? The meaning here is not that we should go ahead and just eat anything; the reference is to the heretical doctrine of abstaining from foods that God gave and approved. “For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer” (verse 5, emphasis added). The Word of God, in the Old Testament, defines which meats are to be consumed and which not.
Through the last 2,000 years of history, some religious leaders have sought to impose vegetarianism on their followers, while others have taught abstention from certain foods, such as meat, on certain days. Such doctrines do not originate in the Bible and are therefore heretical. Paul was warning of those heretical teachings, not of the biblical requirement to avoid pork and shellfish.
So we see that 1 Timothy 4:1-5 does not abolish God’s law about clean and unclean animals.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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Why are you just quoting verse 3? This is exactly what happens when people don't read things in their context. If you read verses 1 through 3 you will see that the meaning is entirely the opposite of what you are getting out of it. This particular scripture warns about cults that put crazy restrictions on people, such as forbidding them to marry or to eat meat. Because man would rather be wise in his own eyes, than to gain Godly understanding. In Proverbs, wisdom asks, How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? Satan tried the same thing when he tested Jesus in the wilderness. Out of context challenges. Hath God really said? Same old lie. At some point, Christians should learn to identify it.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I think a case can be made that this passage not only speaks to cult like practice but also to liturgical rite and tradition.
Specifically an argument could be made against both catholic celibate priesthood and baptist prohibition. Baptist prohibition? The one most notable in it's flouting. Southern Baptists in particular are staunch teetotalers with many congregation having actual temperance literature.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I say "are" as in as the convention has yet to reverse past statements against the consumption of alcohol. It's really a quandry to me as it's one of those things we claim as tradition yet do otherwise in individual practice.
For me I interpret read Paul's all things in moderation and instruction to Timothy to take a little wine plus the warnings against drunkenness to mean consumption is allowable if consumption itself doesn't become the issue. But then there is also Paul's warning to refrain from an allowable activity if it should be cause for another to stumble.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I say "are" as in as the convention has yet to reverse past statements against the consumption of alcohol. It's really a quandry to me as it's one of those things we claim as tradition yet do otherwise in individual practice.
For me I interpret Paul's all things in moderation and instruction to Timothy to take a little wine plus the warnings against drunkenness to mean consumption is allowable if consumption itself doesn't become the issue. But then there is also Paul's warning to refrain from an allowable activity if it should be cause for another to stumble. And I thought you said the Bible isn't subject to interpretation. Jim
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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In context of the rest of your words, the difference isn't material.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I would say that to equate the SBC's stance and statement on alcohol to demonically inspired is beyond a stretch. Can you name one drug in this country that has destroyed more families than alcohol? I am not SBC by any means.But I do not think it even remotely relates to the context of this passage. I say "are" as in as the convention has yet to reverse past statements against the consumption of alcohol. It's really a quandry to me as it's one of those things we claim as tradition yet do otherwise in individual practice.
For me I interpret read Paul's all things in moderation and instruction to Timothy to take a little wine plus the warnings against drunkenness to mean consumption is allowable if consumption itself doesn't become the issue. But then there is also Paul's warning to refrain from an allowable activity if it should be cause for another to stumble.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I would say that to equate the SBC's stance and statement on alcohol to demonically inspired is beyond a stretch. Can you name one drug in this country that has destroyed more families than alcohol? I am not SBC by any means.But I do not think it even remotely relates to the context of this passage. I say "are" as in as the convention has yet to reverse past statements against the consumption of alcohol. It's really a quandry to me as it's one of those things we claim as tradition yet do otherwise in individual practice.
For me I interpret read Paul's all things in moderation and instruction to Timothy to take a little wine plus the warnings against drunkenness to mean consumption is allowable if consumption itself doesn't become the issue. But then there is also Paul's warning to refrain from an allowable activity if it should be cause for another to stumble. Valid point and I can't argue the SBC stance against alcohol abuse and the ills that accompany it. I would opine that the holding to a tenet without basis until it becomes sinful. To give an example the tenet itself led to the split of a family within the church of my upbringing. This family was one of the older families and well established. All God fearing members of the Baptist church. One brother owned one of the two (at the time) local gas stations that sat at one of the two forks in the road. It was a prime location where everyone stopped to get cokes and chips or bait before heading to the river. Well this brother decided that with the river traffic he should add beer to his offerings. Almost instant disfellowship, unwelcome at family gatherings and no one from the community (at least the baptists and their families) dared set foot on the property lest it be thought they might be imbibing. I was of driving age before it became acceptable to shop there.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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I thought Jesus had wine delivered to a wedding after the host ran out? In fact a superb wine. Now me personally, I would think at a wedding people were at least slightly intoxicated, especially after all the hosts wine were drank, probably dancing and singing and celebrating the union.
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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At least thats what I think is where the water into wine story came from
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Re: 1 Timothy 4:3 Question
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When i was a kid I was taught the proper interpretation for water into wine was water into grape juice. But when you read the tale it goes on to say it was a particularly excellent wine. The host was asked why it wasn't served first. Seems an odd thing if talking about grape juice. I also find it hard to believe that ancients used the same word for wine and grape juice. Also without refrigeration or chemicals grape juice begins fermenting immediately upon pressing it out. The warnings against drunkenness' only make sense if they knew the difference and were not calling fresh squeezed grape juice wine.
Not really a big deal to me till church folk look at me cross-eyed when I am enjoying a nice hoppy beer of an evening.
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