*I agree but I don't bash anyone either about it. But I think it better to be drunk in the Spirit, of being full of the Joy of the Lord, it is much better, and you don't have to buy it, and don't get a hangover. I go along with the*scripture*that I posted prior, that says, it's not what goes into a man, that defiles him, but what comes out of him, there's no offense in drinking something, but when someone starts being nasty and offensive, that is not from the Lord. So Salute to the Lord.*
Jesus is replying to a specific problem, namely eating without washing hands. then He makes the point that evil comes from within not without. Thus the dirty hands or the food did not make the man evil but rather what was already in the man that came out is evil.
The question then remains to be asked, Is Jesus saying that what you put in the body has no effect on our morality?
Answer: on an over simplistic level it might be thought this. but lets look at the scripture to see if this is true?
Lev 11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Lev 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The bible says that eating unclean things makes the person unclean.
Notice what Daniel said concerning the kings food:
Dan 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Apparently Daniel understood that you can be defiled by what you eat and drink.
SO the question is how come Jesus said its not what goes in that defiles but what comes out?
Simple, Sin is an inward problem not an outward. The Food or drink itself does not create the Problem/sin. Sin is already there. But what you put in/food/drink. Can weaken us to our problem.
case in point, Do you know of any cases where a normally good person does immoral things after drinking alcohol?
If you don't then you have been living under a rock. Science is very clear what we eat and what we drink can either strengthen or weaken our bodies and anything that does this also strengthens or weakens our minds. This in turn makes us weak to resist our carnal nature.
SO can we glorify God by deliberately drinking or eating things that make it easier to sin? Or Do we glorify God by doing as Daniel did and refusing to defile our temples with what we eat and drink and thus become strong to the point that people could find no evil no sin no error in us as they could not in Daniel?
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
It is clear that you can defile yourself by what you eat and drink, but its not because there is sin in the food as Jesus points out. It is because there is sin in us and if we weaken our selves with what we eat or drink we strengthen sin in us.
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