DO YOU BELIEVE ITS OKAY TO EAT PORK, AS A BELIEVER IN GOD ?

[Absolem]

2 minutes ago, simplejeff said:

Good,  and maybe even correct !  YES !

 

Do you tell people they have to follow the law?

[BobRyan]

16 minutes ago, Absolem said:

Jesus is Lord. I love others out of obedience to him. I'm not telling anyone they need to follow the law to be saved because they don't lol. Its by faith.

So then the lost are not "saved" by simply "not taking God's name in vain"

Neither do the lost become saved by "not eating diseased meat"

But neither fact deletes the command of God on that matter.

[simplejeff]

1 minute ago, Absolem said:

Do you tell people they have to follow the law?

Every day !  The police are often out front,  and around the corner, handing out tickets to people who break the law.

So if I see someone without the legally required headlights, or legally required taillights ,  or who have not put money in the parking meter,   

or who park in the pay parking lot but walk towards somewhere else after parking without paying,  

I warn them about the law,  yes.    Very frequently.

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How about you ?   Where you live ?

Do you routinely break the law ?   Or obey the law ?    Do you ever get a ticket/ fine / or arrested ?

[BobRyan]

8 minutes ago, Absolem said:

Do you tell people they have to follow the law?

1 John 5:2-3 "This IS the Love of God - that we KEEP His Commandments"

Rev 14:12 the saints "KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus"

1 Cor 7:19 "what matters in KEEPing the Commandments of God"

Rom 2:13-16 "it is not the HEARERS of the LAW that are just before God - but the DOERS of the LAW will be justified... on the day when according to my Gospel - God will judge"

Heb 8:6-10 "This IS the New Covenant I will make with them.... I will write My LAW on their heart and mind"

1 John 2:2 "These things I write to you that you sin not.."

1 John 3:4 "sin IS transgression of the LAW"

 

Give me the Bible - AND the words IN the Bible

 

Romans 6 reminds us that saved-by-grace-through faith does not mean "ignore the Law of God"

 

Mark 7:6-13 Jesus' teaching begins with "in vain do they worship me ..." what was His point in those texts about the "Commandment of God", the "Word of God" and "Moses said"?

[Absolem]

2 minutes ago, BobRyan said:

So then the lost are not "saved" by simply "not taking God's name in vain"

Neither do the lost become saved by "not eating diseased meat"

But neither fact deletes the command of God on that matter.

I don't know what your talking about. Its by grace through faith. 

[enoob57]

13 minutes ago, simplejeff said:

Does it really matter why the law was given  ? 

We are under a mandate by God to rightly divide His Word! It seems a great many do not understand The Law was given when we were already sinners it never was given to redeem but only to show we could not follow it because we were already dead to God in perfection of obedience...

[simplejeff]

1 minute ago, Absolem said:

I don't know what your talking about. Its by grace through faith. 

I don't know what you mean either,  ....

when a brand spanking new baby is born,    it is certainly by sheer grace from the Almighty....

but the baby is still called unclean if neither parent is saved,  even though it is a beneficiary of sheer grace from the Almighty to have breath.

[Running Gator]

I have to say, I think it is very impressive we have a 71 page thread on eating pork!  

[simplejeff]

Just now, enoob57 said:

We are under a mandate by God to rightly divide His Word! It seems a great many do not understand The Law was given when we were already sinners it never was given to redeem but only to show we could not follow it because we were already dead to God in perfection of obedience...

I think I agree.    I'm just not sure about everyone being "under a mandate by God to rightly divide His Word" ....

since there are almost no one anywhere who does.....  even amongst large groups of 'Christians' (at least in name)....

[Absolem]

As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! 

Galatians 5:12

 

The law is good and holy but you can't tell people about the law without telling them about Jesus.