Listen to the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 4:1-5.
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences. They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the invocation of God in prayer.
St. Paul speaks of those who require abstention from meat, implicating such teaching with demonic instructions. Meat was given to man for his nourishment and enjoyment. Rejecting this gift as unholy is an insult directly to God.
“… who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth”
Dear QND, for me it is very clearly what the demons will be teaching:** to forbid** these things, foods and marriage, with the pretense that this will bring you closer to God. This is the problem:
TO FORBID
I feel that particularly he is referring to how the Jews have their dietary laws and think they are pleasing God by keeping them. Exactly you have the account of the mother and her children who refuse to eat pig to keep the laws of God, and they were killed, and the Jews call them ‘martyrs’. Martyrs, because you think God do not wants you to eat something and you died for it? ** NO**. “62 But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food. 63 They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food” 1 Macc 1:62-63 **Saint Paul wants to be very clear on this. Nothing to do with your religion what you eat. **
Saint Paul even says about marriage:
“Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.” 1 Cor 7:7
“So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better” 1 Cor 7:38
Therefore are we to think that a demon is
teaching through Saint Paul? :bigyikes:** NO**
He is not forbidding, he is suggesting because of our lack of self control.
“For everything created by God is good, to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth”
If you know the truth, you will realize that nothing that you eat (even meat sacrificed to idols -even for money-) will make you impure, as I said in my post #27, but that does not take away that you may get sick.
Let me put it in now-a-days problem. If you like coca-cola and you drink (even the diet one) 10 or so a day, and you become obese. Are you going to blame God for your obesity even though you were thanking God for the drink every time you had one?
If you like to eat sweets and have so many cakes a day and you become diabetic, are you going to blame God again?
If you like to drink alcohol, smoke, etc., and when you get cancer in the longs, are you going to blame God for it? :read::hey_bud:
If you eat meat every day, because you enjoy it, and then you have high blood presure, cardiac problems, cancers somewhere, etc., are you going to blame God?
Thank God for what you eat, if you can see His hand that made it: I really I can not see how I can thank God for a chocolate, or processed chips in bags, apart from all the chemicals to keep them from rotting? What about a King’s burger? Who knows what is made of, all the fat and meat of who knows what? And then get my triglycerides high to the top, and blame God for that??? Why
I enjoy eating all these things and I gave thanks for them to God. Is He playing a trick with me??? Why I got sick?? :stretcher:
The answer is:** do not go to the priest to ask him what is better for you to eat, he cares about your soul. If you want to be more healthy, and the truth has not shown you how, then go to the dietitian**.
In the love of the truth,
Gloria
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Thank you Miriam for the clarification on that.
