Does God punish?

[Vouthon]

Or paying attention to what we eat and how we prepare food as a means of transforming mundane tasks into something spiritual.

God wished the Jewish people to be a “holy people”, set apart from other peoples, so that their beliefs would not be contaminated by the practices of the surrounding nations. It is thus highly logical to understand why everything, even food, would carry a spiritual significance in the Torah.

However the laws of kashrut are clearly positive rather than natural laws which is why they were never mandated as binding on Non-Jews.

Christianity has no equivalent to these laws because we do not have a divinely revealed positive law in the New Covenant. I think that the prophet Jeremiah touched upon this truth. Even if that passage didn’t specifically refer to a new covenant like unto our new testament in Jewish eyes or in scholarly eyes, it does I feel correctly grasp the New Covenant in spirit.

 

[beehumble]

And then there is this from Our Lady of Fatima:

You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pope Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.

Second part of the Secret of Fatima

God bless you.

 

[meltzerboy]

God wished the Jewish people to be a “holy people”, set apart from other peoples, so that their beliefs would not be contaminated by the practices of the surrounding nations. It is thus highly logical to understand why everything, even food, would carry a spiritual significance in the Torah.

However the laws of kashrut are clearly positive rather than natural laws which is why they were never mandated as binding on Non-Jews.

Christianity has no equivalent to these laws because we do not have a divinely revealed positive law in the New Covenant. I think that the prophet Jeremiah touched upon this truth. Even if that passage didn’t specifically refer to a new covenant like unto our new testament in Jewish eyes or in scholarly eyes, it does I feel correctly grasp the New Covenant in spirit.

In fact, the Jewish interpretation of Jeremiah is that he spoke of a renewed Covenant rather than a New Covenant. IOW, the Old Covenant will be reinvigorated during the Messianic Age. But THAT is a topic for another thread!

 

[souldiver]

This seem to say that hell is punishment:

Jude 1:7
7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

 

[souldiver]

Sorry for double post. The edit button is gone. Here are more verses with punish:

2 Corinthians 10:6
6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his mightthose who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.

Hebrews 2:2
For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,

2 Peter 2:4-9
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.