Hi @Genez
Well, thanks for clearing that up, but it wasn't where I was going on the subject. I agree with you, I think, that God has, since the days of Noah, allowed that man can eat just about anything that moves on the earth. Yet, I'm pretty sure that Noah would have understood that didn't mean to eat some animal that he found dead 10 days ago. It is only within the confines of the Jewish people, that God gave such specific dietary restrictions. Now if it were for health reasons, then that would mean that God really doesn't care about the rest of us because He's told us that it's ok to eat pretty much everything.
The God I know doesn't work like that. That's why I'm fairly well convicted that the dietary restrictions were, much like the not mixing clothing fibers, a command to keep His people from easily intermingling with the Gentiles. But only until they had completed the part of the work of His plan of salvation that required their participation. Now that the Scriptures have been recorded and compiled and Jesus has come and paid the price for sin, there is no longer a need for the Jewish religious practices.
As I understand the Scriptures, God raised up a people to be His people from the generations of Abraham. That His purpose in doing that is, as Paul alludes to, that they were entrusted with the very oracles of God. But now that's done. Those oracles have all been written down and God has now given mankind a full and complete accounting of all that He has done that we live and can have eternal life with Him. They were also to culminate their work in God's plan of salvation by being the very people that He used to sacrifice His Son for all of mankind. God instructed the Jews how to celebrate the Passover and then called upon them to do the work of actually doing the final Passover sacrifice for sin. But now that's all done. The work of the Jew, in God's plan, is complete.
Of course, God's word does still hold out promises to the Jews. The fact that they are now in their homeland again was a promise that God made in the old covenant. He has foretold to us that He is going to bring Israel back to their land and He has now done that, too. God loves the Jewish people. Despite their stiff-necked disobedience, they did get the job done. Now, that doesn't mean, of course, that every one who presents as a Jew will be saved. That's still going to require that any Jew since Jesus' sacrifice walk over to the Jesus group and leave the ancient practices of Judaism behind. Now it's time for all of those who will be saved, to walk in the light and the life of God's Messiah...Jesus, the Christ.
God bless you,
Ted
Well, thanks for clearing that up, but it wasn't where I was going on the subject. I agree with you, I think, that God has, since the days of Noah, allowed that man can eat just about anything that moves on the earth. Yet, I'm pretty sure that Noah would have understood that didn't mean to eat some animal that he found dead 10 days ago. It is only within the confines of the Jewish people, that God gave such specific dietary restrictions. Now if it were for health reasons, then that would mean that God really doesn't care about the rest of us because He's told us that it's ok to eat pretty much everything.
The God I know doesn't work like that. That's why I'm fairly well convicted that the dietary restrictions were, much like the not mixing clothing fibers, a command to keep His people from easily intermingling with the Gentiles. But only until they had completed the part of the work of His plan of salvation that required their participation. Now that the Scriptures have been recorded and compiled and Jesus has come and paid the price for sin, there is no longer a need for the Jewish religious practices.
As I understand the Scriptures, God raised up a people to be His people from the generations of Abraham. That His purpose in doing that is, as Paul alludes to, that they were entrusted with the very oracles of God. But now that's done. Those oracles have all been written down and God has now given mankind a full and complete accounting of all that He has done that we live and can have eternal life with Him. They were also to culminate their work in God's plan of salvation by being the very people that He used to sacrifice His Son for all of mankind. God instructed the Jews how to celebrate the Passover and then called upon them to do the work of actually doing the final Passover sacrifice for sin. But now that's all done. The work of the Jew, in God's plan, is complete.
Of course, God's word does still hold out promises to the Jews. The fact that they are now in their homeland again was a promise that God made in the old covenant. He has foretold to us that He is going to bring Israel back to their land and He has now done that, too. God loves the Jewish people. Despite their stiff-necked disobedience, they did get the job done. Now, that doesn't mean, of course, that every one who presents as a Jew will be saved. That's still going to require that any Jew since Jesus' sacrifice walk over to the Jesus group and leave the ancient practices of Judaism behind. Now it's time for all of those who will be saved, to walk in the light and the life of God's Messiah...Jesus, the Christ.
God bless you,
Ted
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