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To: DouglasKC; Eagle Eye; XeniaSt; Diego1618; xzins
God fearing gentiles who became Christians followed the Lord's food laws as outlined ...

I can't seem to find that in the Bible anywhere. Now I know you are making stuff up on the fly.

I eat pork chops, shrimp, and all sorts of "moving things" because I have the freedom in Christ to do so. Just like Peter and Paul and Noah and Abraham.

183 posted on 04/24/2007 8:08:59 PM PDT by topcat54 ("... knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." (James 1:3))
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To: topcat54
I can't seem to find that in the Bible anywhere. Now I know you are making stuff up on the fly.

No, I'm making logical conclusions. The Lord, in the bible, told them that they shouldn't eat certain animals. Thousands of years of tradition taught the newest Jewish Christians that they should only eat the animals the Lord said were good for food.

But of course they didn't have the benefit of your tradition to tell them to disregard the Lord's words.

I eat pork chops, shrimp, and all sorts of "moving things" because I have the freedom in Christ to do so. Just like Peter and Paul and Noah and Abraham.

Scripturally none of these people never ate anything that God designated as unclean. In the few scriptural examples we have, Abraham only at clean food. And call me when you eat a poisonous tree frog or a puffer fish.

184 posted on 04/24/2007 8:23:21 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC; topcat54; Buggman; P-Marlowe; blue-duncan
God fearing gentiles who became Christians followed the Lord's food laws

That is simply inaccurate. There is no bible basis for that statement at all.

In fact, the opposite is demonstrably true in that the Acts passages about Peter, Cornelius, the evangelization of the gentiles, and the Council of Jerusalem ALL indicate the acceptance of gentiles without ANY legal requirements other than those specifically mentioned in Acts 15. No blood, no road kill, no sexual immorality, and no idol worship.

Peter's hypocrisy most specifically says that Peter was living just as gentiles do, and that strongly implies far more logically that he had set aside food laws even for himslf than it would ever suggest that the gentiles were now bound up by old Jewish food laws.

This is simple common sense, and it is impossible for anyone to prove this point wrong. They are free to observe dietary restrictions all they desire, but they cannot claim that such a lifestyle is biblically required for gentile Christians. IT is unscriptural, illogical, and trending toward bondage rather than toward freedom.

191 posted on 04/25/2007 5:17:13 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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