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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

What book is that? Being Christian-principled means following The Book.

Acts 15:20 & 29 - It could not be any clearer that abstaining from eating meat from strangled animals is the precise teaching of the New Testament (as well as Hebrew scriptures) for even Gentile believers.

I am curious how Michael knows their chickens are strangled though.


81 posted on 01/04/2011 8:42:17 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner
Interesting. I also take scripture literally but try to frame it in context. According to my research/Scoffield Bible.

It seems there was a question if the gentiles were under ‘the law’. This appears to show that they were exempted ‘Ye are not under the law, but under grace’ Rom 6:14.
Gentile believers were to show grace by abstaining from the practices offensive to godly Jews. That's what is addressed in Acts.
It would seem to be pertinent for that time as I don't know of Jews being offended by those things; albeit the few I know. It may be different in Israel though or in the Orthodox community. If that is so, then we would need to abstain in order not to offend.

That's what I interpreted.

86 posted on 01/05/2011 12:04:05 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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