Hi All,
I have been unable to find anything in Ray's emails or articles about clean and unclean meats.QuoteI may get some uncomfortable feedback on my replies to your questions and others replies but I would like to answer using common sense and logic. I came to the conclusion that the best way of surviving is to read the scriptures as they are written...One can do very well by accepting what God has spoken concerning clean and unclean. I was never an SDA but I fellowshipped with them for 14 years...I was a member of the WWCofGod for a few years (until I was excommunicated because I couldn't accept the tithing and festival doctrines)...In both cases I agreed with both churches on clean and unclean foods (and still do) for the following reasons.Having come out of a church that taught it was a sin to eat pork, sea food, etc...
Most of the unclean animals are scavengers (they eat rotten material, diseased animals, are known to carry diseases and can be toxic sometimes, etc.
A young female member and good friend of mine in another church that taught "anything goes" died when eating a food that sometimes is toxic.
A fellow employee and long time friend nearly died when he ate scallops.
I can't think of any case concerning Biblical unclean food, that there isn't a rational, reasonable, common sense argument against eating it.
There are so many "clean" foods that one can eat, why bother with the "unclean" foods unless one is stubborn, rebellious, and blind as my friends were!
QuoteIt is not a SIN to eat unclean as you know...It might only kill you!!I would so like to have some input into what is correct according to the scriptures.
Ray teaches about choice and free will... If in doubt ...DON'TQuoteWhat is correct according to the scriptures is what is written...believe it!
Thanks!
Sue Ann
6. There are so many "clean" foods that one can eat, why bother with the "unclean" food unless you are stubborn, rebellious, and blind as my friends were!
I eat what my wife puts on the table... before that, what my mother did. When I'm out I eat what is available. I guess that makes me stubborn, rebellious, or blind...
The problem is that all of mankind are not civilized intelligent white anglo-saxon. Maybe God knows more than we do. ;D We are very sanitized and are not subjected to food that might harm us seriously.
The problem is that all of mankind are not civilized. Maybe God knows more than we do. ;D We are very sanitized and are not subjected to food that might harm us seriously.
If God thought that some animals were unfit for eating before the Law how are we free to safely eat anything we want?
Mark 7:19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
Mark 7:19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
The "(Thus He declared all foods clean)" part is not in the King James.
Take a look at this (5 minute read)...