Why God forbid the Jews to eat Pork.

hillclimber · Aug 5, 2005

I don't like the limitations imposed by some that desuades the drifting of dialog from the original thread title. That drifting seems a natural part of posting.

Torah Keeper seems just as his name implies, a Jew, unwilling to free himself from Mosaic law.

Johnv · Aug 5, 2005

Originally posted by TorahKeeper:
No one, including Paul has the authority to eliminate any of God's Laws.
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So scripture is wrong then? Peter and Paul expressly wrote IN GOD'S INFALLIBLE AND INSPIRED SCRIPTURE that circumcision is no longer mandatory. Jesus IN GOD'S INFALLIBLE AND INSPIRED SCRIPTURE did work on the Sabbath. I guess Jesus was wrong, too?

Who says the God's law can't change? The Law is from God. The Law is not God.

BobRyan · Aug 6, 2005

Originally posted by Petrel:
I think it's possible that Paul changed his mind later after Timothy was circumcised because of the growth of the pro-circumcision works group.

I don't think that Paul went to the Temple because it was required of him or anyone else, I think he went simply to avoid alienating the Jews so that he would have a chance to witness to them.
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Here is the text -

Acts 21
21 and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.
22 ""What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.
23 ""Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;
24 take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law.

25 ""But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.''

26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself along with them, went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.
27 When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him,
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In the text Luke tells us explicity "why" Paul is going through the exercise - worshipping in the temple and offering the sacrifices. It was to refute the charges.

What WERE the charges again? (The ones in the text above.)

It does not leave a lot of lattitude for re-interpreting.

In Christ,

Bob

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